The healthcare sector has long been dominated by women — who currently perform 77% of healthcare jobs nationally — but gender wage gaps have remained a stubborn and persistent issue,…
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Learn About the Science of Interventions in Dementia Care and Across the Lifespan! Recent summits and national reports have emphasized the need for more rigorous methodology when designing, evaluating, and…
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Our online MPH is designed for full-time students to easily complete in two years. The program is flexible. Students may obtain the degree completely through online courses, without ever visiting our campus, or students may choose to take some courses online and some in-person. Students may also pursue the degree on a part-time basis…
In May, after the academic year has come to a close, working professionals and UMN students have a different type of opportunity to hone their public health knowledge. Often hands-on,…
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Over 50 people from 21 countries traveled to Minneapolis for the 2023 Plenary Meeting of the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Laboratory Network (TobLabNet). Established by the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative…
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Where did you grow up and what did you like to do? [Lexi] I was raised in Rochester, NY. Growing up, I spent a lot of time figure skating. I…
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We offer courses to advance the understanding of weight-related research for current students, along with training and fellowship programs aimed at weight-related health promotion. Fellowships and Training MN Obesity Prevention…
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Advanced Programming and Data Analysis in R (PUBH 7462) has been called the “most fun” and “most useful” class by students who have taken it. The School of Public Health…
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Hosted in Coffman Memorial Union Room 303. Join fellow SPH first-gen students, faculty and staff for lunch, casual conversation and activities. First-gen swag will be raffled off for everyone in…
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As an advanced-standing admission program, the public health BA accepts applications from eligible undergraduate students who meet the criteria outlined on our transfer page. Undergraduate students from all UMN system…
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Xiang Zhu, of the Department of Statistics at Penn State, will present: “Applying an Enhancer Lens to Human Disease Genetics” Over the past two decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have…
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MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL. (September 19, 2023) — Today, the University of Minnesota (UMN) School of Public Health, UMN Medical School, UMN Institute for Health Informatics, Minnesota Electronic Health Records Consortium, and…
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