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Team D Super Sleuths
Students work with faculty, health officials to solve food-borne outbreaks.
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Nick Kelley takes on his first pandemic, H1N1, under the guidance of Dr. Mike Osterholm.
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New Hope for Children
Pat McGovern leads the largest long-term study of children's health in the U.S.
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PhD student has passion to serve
Dylan Galos has a passion for science and a desire to serve the community.
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Improving health through math
Kristen Cunanan couples statistics and public health in order to help people
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A future public health leader
Nancy Mourad, future public health leader, keeps busy at SPH
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From journalism to public health
SPH student and former journalist Kathryn Nelson runs her own foundation in Kenya.
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GO Uganda!
12 U of M students traveled to Uganda to study how to respond to emerging diseases.
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Barbershop Conversations
Project aims to promote healthy discussions among African American men.
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Healthy hearts, healthy kids
Student Sarah Stephenson helps coordinate new Children's Hospital heart clinic.
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Indoor tanning and cancer risk
Cancer epidemiologist DeAnn Lazovich connects indoor tanning to deadly melanoma
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Common dietary supplements could increase death risk
Study author calls for more oversight of the $27 billion supplement industry Taking dietary supplements is supposed to improve health, but in a recent study involving more than 38,000 women, researchers have concluded that women who took supplements had, on average, a 2.4 percent increased risk of dying over the course of the 19-year study, [...]
Winter a good time to test your home for radon
January is radon awareness month. Radon is a colorless, tasteless, and odorless radioactive gas that can cause lung cancer. In fact, radon kills more than 20,000 Americans each year.
A University of Minnesota School of Public Health analysis has unearthed some good news: unhealthy weight control behavior among teen girls is steadily improving as obesity rates fall. But the researchers also found obesity rates climbing among minority teen males.
John R. Finnegan Jr., PhD
Professor & Dean, School of Public Health;
Assistant Vice President, Public Health
Finnegan grew up in Minnesota and worked as a journalist until the late 1970s. While working on his PhD at the UMN, he joined the Minnesota Heart Health Program working as a media writer and producer under Henry Blackburn and Russell Luepker. In 1985, he joined the SPH faculty in Epidemiology and developed a research focus on media, campaigns and community-based interventions in public health. He became SPH Dean in 2005.
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Winter a good time to test your home for radon
Radon is a colorless, tasteless, and odorless radioactive gas that can cause lung cancer.
Pete Raynor, an SPH associate professor of environmental health, says winter is good time to test your home for radon.
Potential changes to cervical cancer screening guidelines
Two sets of draft guidelines now recommend that women be screened only once every three years instead of annually.
Shalini Kulasingam, SPH assistant professor, worked on both sets of guidelines.
Meet Our Student Bloggers
Bryan reflects on a rewarding semester. Along with keeping up his studies and working two jobs, he's found time to attend three concerts since late November at Minneapolis' famous First Avenue nightclub.
Meet Our Alumni Bloggers
As a fourth-year medical student (in our MPH/MD program), Maureen Looby recently traveled to Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. to conduct her "away rotation" in OB/GYN.
Starr Sage: Scholarship Recipient
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