The WVU School of Public Health will host its spring 2016 Public Health Dialogues Speaker Series beginning January 22. The series is free and open to the public. The spring 2016 speaker series will focus on the topic of food and politics.
WVU Health Sciences and WVU Medicine faculty, students, and staff donated 944 food items to The Rack – the WVU student food bank – during the “Pack the Rack” holiday drive in November and December, according to Jacqueline Dooley, The Rack program director.
John Temple, associate professor in West Virginia University’s Reed School of Media and author of “American Pain,” will join WVU Health Sciences Vice President and Executive Dean Clay Marsh, M.D., at January’s Connect with Clay to discuss the painkiller epidemic, his book and what is being done in West Virginia to combat the addiction problem.
For many people, summer means hitting the beach or trying out the newest roller coaster at an amusement park. For Francis Boyle (BSN ’86), it means lugging a backpack full of supplies and traveling by foot and vehicle on rugged, unfamiliar roads; crossing rivers on makeshift rafts; and setting up clinics to visit patients in remote areas of developing nations.
Todd J. Crocco, M.D., has been named director of health partnerships and business ventures for the WVU Health Sciences Center.
On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:15 p.m., The Public Health Dialogues Speaker Series will kick-off the Spring 2016 semester with its theme of Food & Politics. This event will feature a three person panel discussion with Cheryl Brown, PhD, Associate Professor with Agricultural and Resource Economics at WVU, Daniel Eades, Rural Extension Specialist with the Community, Economic, and Workforce Development unit at WVU Extension Service, and Elizabeth Spellman, Executive Director of the WV Food & Farm Coalition.
The WVU ICRC has created a new listserv called “OVERDOSE_WV”.
Use #WVUMedHolidays and #CookieDay to share your holiday celebration moments on social media. Follow @WVUMedCONNECT on Twitter for updates on employee news and events.
The NIH Summer Internship Program (SIP) is now accepting applications for summer 2016. In addition to full-time biomedical research opportunities, we provide career development opportunities for all summer interns, including workshops, courses, journal clubs and access to the OITE Career Services Center. We invite you to join our diverse community of over 5000 trainees for great science and outstanding career development resources.
The School of Public Health Public Health Training Center (PHTC) will be hosting a series of lectures geared toward graduate students this coming spring. The series is open to all West Virginia University students.