Category: health policies

Even as Georgia’s Republican political leaders lambasted the historic health care legislation Congress approved Sunday night, some health care providers and analysts say the bill is a long-overdue step in the right direction. But the real impact of the bill may not become clear for years – and could change depending on what politicians decide in the future, they said. read more

This past Sunday, February 7th, was National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta hosted a panel of keynote speakers highlighting the event. Among the speakers was one of our own MPH- Health Policy and Management students. Erica Parks was elected to present her work on increasing HIV/AIDS awareness in the black community. Parks works with local churches to hold HIV/AIDS focus groups and prevention and education sessions for groups of African-American youth. read more

Drs. Angela Fertig and Phaedra Corso recently had a policy brief published on the longterm costs of childhood asthma, funded by the Pew Charitable Trust Foundation. The brief was also picked up by California’s “Studies in the News”. read more

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Athens, Ga. – Phaedra S. Corso, associate professor in the department of health policy and management, and Dr. Xiangming Fang from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control were awarded the 2008 Kaafee Billah Memorial Award in Economics for their paper titled Child maltreatment, youth violence and intimate partner violence: Developmental relationships. The paper was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2007. read more

Please view the clip of Director Cham Dallas as he appeared on the Fox News show Hannity’s America on August 17, 2008. Click to download the attached file(s): Hannitys_America_17AUG08.mpg

 Child maltreatment is associated with reductions in quality of life even decades later, according to a new University of Georgia study that finds that – on average – victims lose at least two years of quality of life. read more

Angela Fertig, faculty of Health Policy and Management of the College of Public Health, received $25,690 to study the health necessities of Georgia through the Poverty and the Economy Faculty Research Grant. Fertig proposed to study the persistent health needs of the state by identifying the counties with poor health for children, working-age adults and seniors. She said she hopes to also determine risk factors associated with the continuous poor health in various counties throughout Georgia. read more

ATHENS, Ga.— College of Public Health’s Leonard Poon, professor of health policy and management and director of Institute of Gerontology, received the Love of Learning Award from the University of Georgia chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honorary society. read more