Engelhard Writes: Are ‘right-to-try’ laws good medicine or partisan politics?
9/9/2016
Our resident health care policy expert, Carolyn L. Engelhard, writes regularly for The Hill. Read her latest exploration of the intricacies of American health care policy here.
Balkrishnan Conducts Public Health Education in India
9/1/2016
Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, Professor of Public Health Sciences, recently toured the state of Karnataka, India where he trained several groups of pharmacy and medical students in public health research by…
Pannone presents to MAPP Council for TJHD
8/23/2016
Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences Aaron Pannone represented the department in presentations to the MAPP 2 Health Leadership Council on Wednesday, August 17th at City Space in downtown Charlottesville. …
Alcalá Receives Dean’s Award from UCLA’s Fielding School
6/14/2016
Héctor E. Alcalá, PhD, MPH, CPH, post doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Public Health Sciences was recently named the recipient of a Dean's Outstanding Student Award by the…
Balkrishnan Leads Workshop at ISPOR Annual Meeting
5/25/2016
Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, Professor of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Cancer Control Core, and UVA Cancer Center Co-Director, Population Health and Prevention Research recently led a workshop at…
Valdez and UVA Co-PIs awarded RO1 from National Library of Medicine
3/31/2016
Dr. Rupa Valdez (Public Health Sciences), Dr. Steve Patek (Systems and Information Engineering), Dr. Mark Deboer (Pediatric Endocrinology), and Dr. Daniel Chernavvsky (Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences) are PIs on a…
Balkrishnan: Report on U.S. Kidney Disease Care shows major cost, garners major press
3/31/2016
A recent report using data from the the U.S. Renal Data System of the care and cost of renal disease shows an enormous and growing health care issue. PHS's Rajesh…