Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Health and Human Services has joined the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network to collaborate on translational research whose goal is to improve health outcomes. The network is a collaboration between universities and diverse, community-based health care delivery systems in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Partners Clinic, Prince William Health District, and Smart Beginnings Greater Prince William partner to vaccinate more than 1,400 people.
On February 23, First Lady Pamela Northam visited a vaccination clinic in Manassas Park to recognize the heroic efforts of early childhood educators. “Early childhood educators have truly been unsung heroes throughout this pandemic allowing other frontline workers to remain on the job. We are grateful for organizations like Smart Beginnings Greater Prince William, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Partner Clinics, and the Prince William Health
How can we better understand how people move during the pandemic and how they spread COVID-19? Janusz Wojtusiak, associate professor of health informatics and director of the Machine Learning Inference Lab is leading one of the first individual-level studies on social distancing.
Dr. Amira Roess is a professor of Global and Community Health at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Health and Human Services. She is an epidemiologist with expertise in Coronaviruses and interventions to reduce the transmission and impact of infectious diseases. Roess shares current information on the COVID-19 vaccine and answers questions about whether it’s safe to resume our pre-COVID lives.
Dr. Amira Roess provides some insight on immunity to COVID-19 and antibodies.
CHHS faculty Lawrence J. Cheskin, Alison Cuellar, and Matthew Rossheim have received a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Summer Impact Grant to study COVID-19's impact on underrepresented/under-resourced Â鶹ÊÓƵ undergraduate students and their peers.
Karyn Onyeneho, who graduated from Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 2014, lives by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in her commitment to public service and community engagement: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.â€
A study led by Dr. Kenneth Griffin of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Health and Human Services and researchers at National Health Promotion Associates (NHPA) finds that the Cadet Healthy Personal Skills (CHiPS) program shows promise in reducing unwanted sexual contact in military academies. The intervention, which was rigorously tested with more than 800 cadets during their first year at the academy, addresses a critical gap in evidence-based interventions.
