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The Health Impact Assessment of New...

Deborah L. Swackhamer, co-director of the Water Resources Center at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, presented recently...

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Self-weighing potential health risk for...

Is it healthy for young adults to weigh themselves frequently? That’s what researchers with Project Eat at the University of...

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Topic: Twin Cities has high rate of food insecurity
Who: Meg Bruening, research assistant, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Length: 1:30

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Believing in Public Health

If you are reading this post as a perspective student, then I hope this helps push you in the right...

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Networking and Online Learning

Recently my field instructor and I were having a conversation about the benefits and challenges of online learning. The School...

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Match Day story with pictures

The Monday before the Match: I was in surgery that day (doing a robot assisted prostatectomy for my urology rotation)....

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Match Day story with pictures

The Monday before the Match: I was in surgery that day (doing a robot assisted prostatectomy for my urology rotation)....

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Proving preventability

Henry Blackburn is among the few remaining principal investigators of the Seven Countries Study team that focused on the relation of heart attacks to the eating and activity patterns in contrasting populations of men in strenuous occupations like farming, fishing, and logging in the United States, Finland, the Netherlands, and Japan, Greece, Italy, and Yugoslavia.

Since retiring in 1995, Blackburn has devoted much of his time to writing and compiling a comprehensive archive and history of CVD epidemiology and preventive cardiology. His own and others' documents, abstracts of early studies, oral histories of pioneering researchers, photos, videos, and audio clips are available on a wideranging website.

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