News: School of Public Health
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UNLV Healthy Homes team will also examine homes for health issues such as asthma triggers, energy and fire problems, trip and fall hazards, pests, and mold.
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Mentoring future health care leaders is a priceless opportunity, according to this Community Health Sciences faculty member.
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Federal granting agency approves Dr. David Di John, longtime pediatric infectious disease specialist, to lead program for patients living with HIV/AIDS.
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Ninth annual check of state’s entering kindergartners showed more have health insurance, yet barriers to health care access still exist.
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UNLV is a host site for the federally-funded Journey program, which puts Native American and other minority high school students interested in health research into college labs.
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This Community Health Sciences professor hopes his research will assist consumers in using health care quality report cards.
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UNLV has a commencement tradition for the president to select and highlight exceptional students who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.
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From professional reasons to personal connections, faculty across campus share why they’re fond of certain works they penned.
Holly Lyman, the Community Health Sciences Alumna of the Year, builds a Dragon boating tradition to fight cancer.
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The researcher from Nebraska is working to reduce HIV transmission between mothers and children in Nigeria.
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UNLV study confirms that motorists are less likely to stop for pedestrians of color.
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Fundraising for universitywide collaboration surpasses $750,000 with support from Switch and NV Energy Foundation.