New York City High School Students Victimized at Rate Higher than National Average
According to the results of a three-year, comprehensive research project on sexual and dating violence among New York City high school students by the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault and the Mailman School of Public Health's Center for Youth Violence Prevention, New York teens are victims of sexual violence at a higher rate than the national average. One in six participants (16.2 percent) reported having experienced sexual violence at some point in their lives, compared to the national average of between seven and ten percent of 12-17-year-olds who reported having experienced some form of sexual assault.
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Prevalence of Pre-Cancerous Masses in the Colon Same in Patients in Their 40s and 50s:
New findings point to potential to begin colon cancer screening at a younger age
The prevalence of pre-cancerous masses in the colon is the same for average-risk patients who are 40 to 49 years of age and those who are 50 to 59 years of age, according to a study published in the June issue of Gastroenterology, the journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. In comparing colonoscopy results by age group, the team of scientists found that in the 40 to 49 age group, 79 patients, or 14 percent, had one or more adenoma or pre-cancerous growth. Similarly, the 50 to 59 age group had 56 patients, or 16 percent, with one or more adenoma.
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Linda P. Fried Delivers 2008 Mailman School Commencement Address
Linda Fried, MD, MPH, dean of the Mailman School, delivered the 2008 commencement address to 442 graduates of the Mailman School of Public Health on May 21, 2008. During her address, she posed the question, "What is public health?" to the 2008 graduates, who chuckled and listened intently as Dr. Fried provided her answer and discussed emerging challenges in the field that graduates will be facing in the years to come.
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The Program on Forced Migration and Health Promotes Child Well-Being through Learning Network and at Three-Day Workshop
The Program on Forced Migration and Health (PFMH) in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health recently formed the first ever Agency Learning Network for the Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries (CPC Learning Network).
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NIAID Newsletter Features Mailman School's W. Ian Lipkin
World-renowned in the field of infectious disease, W. Ian Lipkin, MD, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, is featured in a front-page article in the Spring 2008 issue of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Discovery News. The feature article on Dr. Lipkin, "A Microbe Hunter On Call to the World," chronicles Dr. Lipkin's career highlights to date.
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ICAP Director Wafaa El-Sadr Participates in High-level United Nations Meeting on Scale-up of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
As part of a June 10-11 high-level meeting at the United Nations General Assembly, Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, professor of clinical Epidemiology and director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, moderated a discussion on country experiences and lessons learned in the scale-up of programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.
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Roberta Ness, MD, MPH '89, Named Dean of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's School of Public Health
Currently chair of the Department of Epidemiologyat the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Roberta Ness will become dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health, the oldest accredited school of public health in Texas, effective January 1, 2009.
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Department of Biostatistics Launches "BEST" Program to Increase Diversity Among Students
While earning degrees from the Mailman School's Department of Biostatistics, graduate students Emma Benn, Gary Yu, and Helena Chang wondered why few students of color chose to enter the field. They concluded that the lack of diversity is a direct result of under-exposure to biostatistics among disadvantaged groups.
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