Meet Kenneth Okonkwo: MPH student and physician from Nigeria
ALBANY, N.Y. (November 16, 2021) - Concentrating in biomedical sciences, Kenneth Okonkwo is a current MPH student who came to the U.S. from Nigeria to pursue his public health education. As a practicing clinical physician, Okonkwo found that his work could be enhanced with public health knowledge.
UAlbany Study Explores Impact of Health Insurance Loss During COVID-19
As the nation’s workers confronted this loss of employer-sponsored health insurance during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, researchers from UAlbany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and Harvard University set out to examine how this event impacted their support for universal health coverage policies.
DrPH Student Analyzes Health Campaign Integration for Neglected Infectious Diseases in Latin American and the Caribbean
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 29, 2021) – Second year Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student Andrei Chell recently evaluated high-profile health campaign integrations in Honduras, Colombia, and Guyana related to three neglected infectious diseases. This work may help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to better understand how integrated health campaigns could curb the spread of disease.
UAlbany Partners on $3.6 Million ‘WINTRE-MIX’ Project to Improve Winter Weather Forecasting
Next year, UAlbany researchers will partner with ones from three other institutions on a three-year, NSF-funded $3.6 million project, that seeks to better understand and address the wintry predictive challenge.
Understanding how Fires Impact the Carbon Cycle
UAlbany researcher Rixiang Huang, an assistant professor of environmental and sustainable engineering, is undertaking a new project that is designed to reveal how charcoal from fires decomposes over time.
SPH Studies Find Chemicals in Everyday Products are Harmful to Fertility
Three studies led by a School of Public Health PhD student found that a group of chemicals found in many plastic products are harmful to women who are pregnant and to couples planning a pregnancy – yet the products are often not on the list of things to be avoided.
NYS Mesonet, NOAA Partner to Enhance Winter Weather Observations
Project will demonstrate how NYS Mesonet measurements, including snow depth, snowfall rates, freezing rain and precipitation type, can improve prediction lead times and local winter weather operations.
MPH Student Provides Evidence to Support Maternal Mental Health Policy Development
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 22, 2021) - Community Care Physicians Scholar and MPH student Jabrea Robinson recently conducted research to better understand how peer navigators could be used as an intervention for mood and anxiety disorders caused by the physical and emotional changes that occur during and after pregnancy. Robinson’s experience was made possible with support from Community Care Physicians (CCP).