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Public health students go to Malawi, assess problems in care for cervical cancer , articleSam Rodgers and Stephanie Hernandez, both Master of Public Health students at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, went to the African nation of Malawi over Virginia Tech's winter break to help assess the nation’s continuum of health care from home to hospital.
Date: Mar 08, 2023 -
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A silver lining in the fight for clean water in India , articleStudents and faculty in the Department of Geography trialed the use of silver-infused ceramic tiles as a way to provide clean water to schools in rural India.
Date: Mar 02, 2023 -
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Why some of Virginia Tech’s most popular courses are online , articleAs undergrads craving flexibility gravitate toward online learning options, a few Virginia Tech classes have expanded to enroll thousands of students.
Date: Jan 24, 2023 -
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Beat the heat: Virginia Tech team to study best ways to survive heat waves , articleThe researchers will develop a proposal to create a citizen science program that will train youth to collect, monitor, and communicate data on temperatures in Roanoke and how residents experience heat.
Date: Dec 14, 2022 -
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Audrey Ruple named Dorothy A. and Richard G. Metcalf Professor of Veterinary Medical Informatics , articleRuple joined the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in 2021 as an associate professor with tenure. Informatics, and the application and development of the discipline, have been integral parts of her research portfolio, including advanced computing and data sciences
Date: Dec 14, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech researchers address the grand challenges of pandemic prediction and prevention , articleT.M. Murali, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, along with several colleagues from across Virginia Tech, has received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to identify expedient, efficient, cost-effective options for the prevention and containment of zoonotic viruses.
Date: Oct 24, 2022 -
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Fralin Life Sciences Institute sponsors inaugural Infectious Disease Symposium , articleThe Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Anthropod-Borne Pathogens will host the symposium on Friday, Oct. 7, with keynote speakers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes for Health, and One Health Institute.
Date: Oct 05, 2022 -
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A global challenge: Addressing water and health issues from rural Appalachia to China , articleFrom central Appalachia to China and everywhere in between, water contamination and unreliable access to safe water are issues of concern in poor rural areas. Two researchers at Virginia Tech explain common water issues and what they are doing to help.
Date: Mar 15, 2022 -
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Flu season is here — and flu vaccines are ready for the Virginia Tech community , articleOctober represents the start of flu season, and Virginia Tech officials began messaging centered on encouraging the campus population to get their flu vaccines. The university set up a website dedicated to information about the flu and flu shots, and both Hokie Wellness and Schiffert Health Center have scheduled clinics at various times throughout the month to administer the vaccine both to students and to employees.
Date: Oct 22, 2021 -
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Mobile vaccine clinics are making COVID-19 vaccines more accessible to the community , articleIn the spirit of Ut Prosim, (That I May Serve), a group of dedicated and creative Virginia Tech students and faculty, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Health, are working to make vaccines more available to the community with mobile vaccine clinics and the COVID vaccine car.
Date: Aug 03, 2021 -
Video ItemTECH Together Campaign helps mobile vaccine clinic , video Date: Jul 27, 2021
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Lisa M. Lee appointed to the Education Board of the American Public Health Association , articleLee, a public health expert specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and public health ethics, has mentored graduate students and public health professionals and developed and taught numerous courses in public health ethics over her 30-year career.
Date: Mar 23, 2021 -
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Policy Destination Area team develops COVID-19 database to spur policy and social science research , articleAs the coronavirus tightened its grip across the globe in late spring 2020, faculty members associated with the Policy Destination Area began brainstorming about how they could respond to the pandemic. What they created was a “database of databases” related to the policies around the pandemic, with direct links to data for researchers to use.
Date: Mar 03, 2021 -
Video ItemExpert explains why animal coronavirus vaccines are unsafe--and ineffective--for human use , video
Humans should never be injected with vaccines created to treat animal coronaviruses, explains Andrea Bertke, associate professor of infectious diseases in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Virginia Tech.
Date: Mar 27, 2020 -
Video ItemExpert explains how to flatten the curve , video
Laura Hungerford, professor of public health, head of the Master of Public Health Program and the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, explains what "flatten the curve" means and how it can help our response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Dr. Hungerford also highlights six practices that everyone can adopt to become a "flatten-the-curve hero."
Date: Mar 17, 2020