Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Kendra Scott Teams Up with SPH LBCHP
Meet Hilary Wetmore Bordelon, of Kendra Scott, and Learn How Buying Bling Can Benefit Breast Cancer Awareness Kendra Scott jewelry has teamed up with our very own Louisiana Breast & Cervical Health Program to help provide funding for cancer screenings through the Kendra Scott Breast Cancer Research Fund! When you shop in store or online […]
ASPPH: This is Public Health Virtual Fair September 16th
Louisiana State University’s School Public Health in New Orleans is participating in Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASSPH) Virtual Fair. This FREE event takes place Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, between 9 am/CT– 5pm/CT. Click here to view our schedule for this fair. This ASSPH Virtual Fair allows you to connect in real-time […]
Will Hurricane Laura’s evacuations, recovery efforts be fertile ground for spread of coronavirus?
BY JEFF ADELSON | Staff writer Published in nola.com, Aug 29, 2020 at 9:00 am | Updated Aug 29, 2020 at 8:17 pm There could be another layer to the pain, suffering and destruction wrought by Hurricane Laura this year: the toll the still-active coronavirus pandemic will take. The mass evacuations that preceded the devastating […]
The Relationship of Diabetes and COVID-19 – A Health Disparity
Published in Diabetes Complications, 2020 Volume 4 | Issue 1, May 2020 Featured in ASPPH Friday Letter— COVID-19 Coverage, May 15, 2020 Dr. Peggy Honoré, Professor, LSUHSC School of Public Health and School of Medicine collaborated with Dillard University’s Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center and College of Nursing on COVID-19 research focused on […]
Wellness, Health & Prevention: Mobile Mindfulness Meditation Intervention Among Women
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Mindfulness Meditation Intervention Among Women: Intervention Study Published on 02.06.20 in Vol 8, No 6 (2020): June in JMIR mHealth and uHealth Traditional mindfulness-based stress reduction programs are resource intensive for providers and time- and cost-intensive for participants, but the use of mobile technologies may be particularly convenient and […]
Health Care Finance & Novel COVID-1
Hosted by Dean Smith & Journal of Health Care Finance The LSUHSC School of Public Health presented a webinar addressing the intersection of Health Care Finance and the COVID-19 epidemic. The webinar was co-hosted by LSU School of Public Health and Journal of Health Care Finance. It will featured a panel of experts in the […]
UPDATED Message from the Dean
Updated: 1:29 PM – 3/16/2020 Dear Students, A number of LSUHSC students may be ill and self-isolating. It would be helpful for LSUHSC to know how many students are in this condition. School of Public Health Students – Please complete this form and return to Dean Smith (dgsmith@lsuhsc.edu) who will report on the number of […]
Coronavirus/Covid-19: A Note from the LSU SPH Epidemiologists
I know there is much discussion and uncertainty about the threats posed by Coronavirus/Covid-19. Following are some recent and interesting epidemiologic papers on Coronavirus. These papers are some of Dr. Straif-Bourgeois’s favorite reads right now. (Dr. Straif-Bourgeois‘s expertise is Infectious Disease Epidemiology and she is faculty in Epidemiology at the LSU School of Public Health.) […]
LSU: Using Social Media for Smoking Cessation Interventions, A Systematic Review
Previous studies have shown that smoking tobacco significantly increases both incidence and mortality rates for many diseases. Social media has become one of the most influential platforms for various smoking cessation interventions. However, results from smoking cessation interventions have differed from study to study. Limited studies have summarised cessation outcomes from social media-based interventions. According […]
LSU Health Tumor Registry Launches New Interactive Resource
LSU Health New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry has launched a new, user-friendly, interactive, online tool to provide easier access to cancer information in Louisiana. To our knowledge, Louisiana Cancer Data Visualization provides the most complete information of any online state-specific, cancer resource tool in the United States. Louisiana Cancer Data Visualization is posted online here. […]