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Graphic of faculty featured during University at Albany week on Academic Minute.
‘University at Albany Week’ Airs on WAMC’s The Academic Minute
The Academic Minute airs on 70 NPR-affiliated stations in the United States and Canada and is shared online via Inside Higher Education.
A portrait of Mamun Rahman
Graduation Spotlight: Mamun Rahman
Mamun Rahman wrote his statement of purpose to attend UAlbany while sitting inside Rikers Island adolescent jail in NYC. He was there to provide training to correctional staff and incarcerated individuals on mental health first aid on behalf of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and felt inspired to write about his need to acquire more public health knowledge to make a difference in mental health work.
Beth Feingold stands at a former mining area in La Pampa, Madre de Dios, Peru. Feingold is wearing a blue button-down shirt, gray bucket hat and blue mirrored sunglasses. The background is mainly dry, cleared, open land, with forest in the far distance on the horizon. The sky is blue and full of large fluffy clouds.
School of Public Health Researcher Receives Fulbright Amazonia Award
Beth Feingold has been selected as part of the program’s inaugural cohort, which aims to expand collaborative research networks and address shared priorities in the Amazon Basin
Students celebrate their official degree conferral at the Entry Plaza lawn with purple and gold confetti.
UAlbany Celebrates Class of 2023
UAlbany’s new graduates have officially joined the ranks of more than 197,000 alumni worldwide after a series of commencement events over the long weekend.
A black car in front of a brown house next to green trees.
Study Suggests Common Tool for Measuring Socioeconomic Disparities May be Flawed
A recent study by UAlbany School of Public Health researchers published in the journal Health Affairs suggests that a common tool used to assess socioeconomic disadvantages may suffer from serious flaws.
UAlbany School of Public Health Logo; Title: 'Research Report'; Picture of the sign for the Health Sciences Campus
May 2023 SPH Research Report
A collection of the University at Albany's School of Public Health research from May 2023.
The West Hill Refugee Welcome Center brick building.
Public Health Student Works “Glocally” to Improve Health and Nutrition of Refugees
Through the School of Public Health’s Glocal Initiative, two undergraduate students recently interned at the West Hill Refugee Welcome Center in the Capital Region, where they worked to help improve the health and nutrition of Afghan, Sudanese and Burmese refugees.
A women holds her hands over her pregnant stomach, creating a heart shape.
Internship Focus: Perinatal, Reproductive and Sexual Health with the State Health Department
MPH students Samantha Van Buren and Abbi Zalucky are interning at the health department’s Bureau of Perinatal, Reproductive and Sexual Health, working on projects related to postpartum depression screening and advancing social justice and health equity through policy building.