Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work Newsroom

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Fatima Arif ’20 is among the first girls in her family to attend school and the first to have gone abroad to study for her master’s degree. While she attended local universities for her bachelor’s degree, Arifi chose to travel more than 7,000 miles to earn her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, where she could learn the skills she knew she needed to make a difference in her country, such as data analysis, critical thinking and report writing. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the way we manage our professional, academic, and social obligations. For families with a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), the pandemic has added an additional layer of challenge: ensuring that the child’s unique learning needs are met by caregivers who are not necessarily trained or prepared to provide academic support. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Alexis Jones always says yes to an opportunity, even if she isn’t entirely sure what she is getting herself into. Saying yes led her to Flint, Michigan in the midst of the water crisis, to hiring cadaver dogs and to her Master of Public Health (MPH) with a concentration on Environmental Health Sciences. Jones was in the right place at the right time when she met her current boss. She had recently graduated with her bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry and was happy to take a job, even though she wasn’t fully aware of what the job entailed. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] In a study led by Vargas-Rivera and Wasim Maziak, director of the Clinical Research Lab for Tobacco Smoking and professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, investigators completed one of the first controlled studies to examine the effects of restricting flavor of e-cigarettes on the user experience. This clinical trial evaluates the impact of e-cigarette flavor manipulation on the user’s puffing behavior, subjective experience, harm perception, and nicotine exposure among college-aged users. The results were recently published in the journal Tobacco Control. [/su_column] [/su_row]