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Dr. Peggy Honore awarded grant through LSU Health Foundation

Dr. Peggy Honoré, Professor, School of Public Health, was recently awarded a three-year $295,781 grant from the Baptist Community Ministries. The award was made through the LSU Health Foundation.  Work under the grant is titled Educating the Health Workforce: A Pathway to Improving Health Outcomes and represents a partnership between LSU Health Sciences Center and […]

LSU: Healthy Infrastructure Effort Gets National Acclaim

The Louisiana Cancer Prevention & Control Programs (LCP) at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health and the Louisiana Healthy Communities Coalition (LHCC), which receives LCP leadership and resources, have been recognized by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors in a case study on a successful Complete Streets implementation in Southwest Louisiana (SWLA). Complete Streets ordinances ensure transportation […]

Epidemiology Summer Seminar – Dr. Veronica Barcelona de Mendoza

On behalf of Dr. Edward Peters and Epidemiology Program: We invite everyone to join the Epidemiology Program for the 2019 Summer Seminar “DNA methylation, preterm birth, and blood pressure in African American children” presented by Dr. Veronica Barcelona, Assistant Professor in the Primary Care Division, Yale University School of Nursing.  The seminar will be held […]

Setting Out the Framework for Public Health Finance: Spotlight on Dr. Peggy Honore

An interview with Dr. Peggy Honore appears as a July 5, 2019 post to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice website (www.jphmp.com). This Spotlight interview is in recognition of Dr Honore’s 15th year as a member of the journal’s Editorial Board. https://jphmpdirect.com/2019/07/05/jphmp-spotlight-peggy-honore/

LSU: New Center for Evidence to Practice

On June 19th, 2019 the Academic and Student Affairs Committee of the Louisiana Board of Regents approved the Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Behavioral Health at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-School of Public Health, New Orleans, as an Academic Center. The Center for Evidence to Practice is a collaboration between Louisiana State University Health Sciences […]

LSU: Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Low Dose Computed Tomography Lung cancer Screening and Smoking Among African Americans—a mixed method study

According to Dr. Tung-Sung Tseng, associate professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) School of Public Health, the purpose of this study is to investigate knowledge, attitudes, and smoking cessation needs for African Americans who receive low dose computed tomography (LDCT) in an effort to reduce the health burden of lung cancer. The research team […]

LSU: Studies Association Between Smoking and Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio Among Prostate Cancer Survivors

An elevated neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been proven as a vital predictor of progression and mortality for prostate cancer. Smoking is a risk factor for increasing NLR. Drs. Tung-Sung Tseng, Yu-Hsiang Kao along with a team of researchers from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) School of Public  Health examined the effect of smoking on […]

Carl Kluttz, Recipient of Distinguished Awards

Carl Kluttz, LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health IT Analyst and staff member, was recognized and awarded the 2019 Beth Schmidt Staff Member of the Year Award at the School of Public Health’s Pre-Commencement Awards Ceremony held Wednesday, May 15, 2019. This School of Public Health award is in acknowledgement of the contributions […]

Racial and Income Disparities in Health-Related Quality of Life among Smokers with a Quit Attempt in Louisiana

February 13, 2019 – New Orleans, LA In the recent study, “Racial and Income Disparities in Health-Related Quality of Life among Smokers with a Quit Attempt in Louisiana,” published in Medicina 2019, smoking was found to be associated with a lower health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, there is little information about the association between […]

LSU: Faculty and Researchers Used Emergency Department Data to Estimate Prevalence of Smoking in Young Adults

Faculty and researchers at the LSU School of Medicine (Drs. Stephen Kantrow and Sarah Jolley), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health (Ms. Xinnan Wang, Dr. Tung-Sung Tseng, Dr. Dodie Arnold, Dr. Claudia Leonardi, Dr. Richard Scribner, Dr. Edward Trapido, Dr. Hui-Yi Lin), Ochsner Health System (Eboni Price Haywood) and the Louisiana Public Health Institute (Dr. […]