Social Epidemiology launches May 31, 2013. Understanding how forces of society—from family life to government policies to the global economy—impact health is the focus of one of the first massive online open courses (MOOC) offered by the University of Minnesota. Some 10,000 students are expected to sign on for Social Epidemiology, one of five free [...]
The University of Minnesota has received a gift of $1 million from Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) alum Don Wegmiller and his wife, Janet, to establish the Wegmiller Professorship in Healthcare Administration. The program is offered by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Wegmiller, a 1962 graduate, credits the MHA program in significantly [...]
If it’s true, as philanthropist Andrew Carnegie once said, that “it’s more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place,” then Don and Janet Wegmiller’s recent gift to the School of Public Health’s Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program would score high with Carnegie. The couple’s decision to endow [...]
“Growing up on a dairy farm, we had considerable contact with livestock and wildlife,” wrote R.K. Anderson. “Even though we understood, or perhaps because we understood the primary role of animals in our lives, we were often in a close relationship that gave us a perspective of our interdependence and the nature of life [...]
The University of Minnesota School of Public Health is now offering a graduate certificate program designed for clinicians in leadership and management positions. The Certificate in Advanced Management Training for Clinician Leaders was designed specifically for clinicians interested in deepening their managerial skills. It was developed with input from clinicians with management positions in integrated health [...]
SPH helps foster a new approach to global health When the bubonic plague ravaged 14th century Europe, Russia, and Asia, few understood disease vectors or that the tiny flea was the ideal host for Yersinia pesti and rats were the literal jumping off point for human infection. Animals harbor thousands of viruses— most yet undiscovered—that [...]
Public Health Undergraduate Minor “Collaboration is the very nature of our field,” says Debra Olson, SPH associate dean for education, talking about the new public health undergraduate minor. The partnership between the School of Public Health and the College of Liberal Arts in creating the minor “has been one of the greatest successes in the [...]
Attention-grabbing specters like bubonic plague, Ebola, or the slim possibility of anthrax attacks make for compelling headlines, and the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) keeps tabs on all of these—along with other nightmarish, if distant, threats. Recently, CIDRAP has made headlines for its work on a more familiar, yet [...]
The Food Policy Research Center (FPRC), comprised of five schools and colleges at the University of Minnesota, has released a fact sheet on genetically engineered (GE) and genetically modified (GM) foods. Designed to inform policymakers through a comprehensive scientific approach, this fact sheet is the first in a series of food policy topics. Led by [...]
On July 18, 2012, health policy experts from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health discussed the implications of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Supreme Court decision on: Individual insurance market (Jean Abraham) Employers and the labor market (Roger Feldman) Medicaid expansion and opt-out decisions by states (Lynn Blewett) Public opinion toward [...]
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