Five Tips for Staying Healthy and Living Longer
Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. What can you do to gain the benefits of prevention?
UT doctor: Be careful about West Africa travel
Ebola, a highly infectious virus disease, has been blamed for more than 900 deaths in four West African countries. An East Tennessee doctor treating Ebola patients in West Africa recently returned home to Morristown and is currently under quarantine. Paul Erwin, a doctor of internal medicine and head of the Department of Public Health, interviewed
Oak Ridge Today: UT professor offers tips to help avoid, deal with flu season
Oak Ridge Today recently featured Paul Erwin, head of the Department of Public Health, and his tips on how to avoid and deal with the flu this season. Read the story here.
Professor Offers Tips to Help Avoid, Deal with Flu Season
Forty states—including Tennessee—are already experiencing widespread and increasing influenza infections this season, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Paul Erwin, head of UT’s Department of Public Health, offers three simple tips that can go a long way in protecting you from getting or spreading the flu.
UT to Help Chart Course of Academic Public Health Education Nationally
UT will help chart the direction of academic public health education, thanks to membership in a newly formed organization that launches today. The university has signed on as a founding member of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. The organization connects public health schools and programs accredited by the Council on Education
Baker Scholars Researched Politics, Energy, Education, Health
Some recent graduates and seniors were recently awarded Baker Scholar medallions for completing the program sponsored by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. Baker Scholars are selected via a competitive application and interview process. They propose a research project, which they complete over the course of an academic year under the mentorship
Public Health Department Head to Discuss John Snow at Science Forum
Paul Campbell Erwin, professor and head of the Department of Public Health, considers John Snow’s cholera investigations one of the foundations of modern epidemiology. He will discuss Snow’s work at this Friday’s Science Forum. The Science Forum is a weekly brown-bag lunch series during which professors and area scientists discuss their research with the general
2013–14 Life of the Mind Book Will be Eaarth by Bill McKibben
The world is “melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning” because of destructive environmental changes, and we must alter our ways if we want to keep the planet habitable for ourselves and future generations. That’s the warning from noted environmentalist Bill McKibben in his latest book, Eaarth. Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
UT, State Health Department Launch Center to Address Food-Borne Illnesses
UT is partnering with the state Department of Health to develop training that will enhance responses to food-borne illness outbreaks in Tennessee and across the country.
What’s Your Big Idea?—Paul Erwin
Paul Erwin, professor and director of public health, has the big idea of using research to make communities healthier. His Public Health Grand Rounds program focuses on practice-based research to improve the public’s health. PHGR is an activity of UT’s Department of Public Health and Knox County Health Department’s formal partnership called the Academic Health
UT Multi-Disciplinary Team Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
The Kenya Team at UT Knoxville recently received an $89,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to work with the Orphans and Vulnerable Children’s Projects and Kenyatta University. The team will study the effects of child-caregiver attachment to the overall well-being of children in the slum communities of Nairobi, Kenya.
Open for Business: UT Establishes Department of Public Health
After several years of planning combined with “a very serious and purposeful reallocation of internal resources,” UT Knoxville has established a Department of Public Health within the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences.