PHS News

Research Team Applies 2SFCA to Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment in Appalachia

A research team including Public Health Sciences’ Rajesh Balkrishnan, Roger Anderson, and Fabian Camacho recently turned up more detailed evidence of barriers to cancer diagnosis and treatment with the novel application of a demographic technique. Read more here.

Richardson Promotes Public Health in Schools

Professor Richardson poses with students from Tucker Clarke Primary School, St. Kitts, WI. Richardson and MPH students from UVA collect and deliver school supplies and books to teachers and students as part of an on-going program to teach wellness principles that support educational success. Jeanita …

Balkrishnan Speaks at Malaysian Workshop

Professor Rajesh Balkrishnan recently presented a workshop entitled “Disease Registry Data to Improve Healthcare and Clinical Effectiveness’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The workshop was funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) and hosted by the Malaysian Ministry of Health.

Time for an all-payer health system?

Economists tell us that setting the price of a good or service depends on market forces that balance supply and demand in order to optimize output with minimal waste. This dynamic is one of the marvels of competitive markets, where, with almost magical agility, prices constantly readjust toward an i …

Stephen Rich, PhD, Wins JDRF’s Rumbough Award

Renowned genetic epidemiologist Stephen Rich, PhD, director of the University of Virginia Center for Public Health Genomics, has been honored with one of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s (JDRF) most prestigious awards, the David Rumbough Award for Scientific Excellence.  The award recogni …

TV: Obesity in an Hour

Watching television as little as an hour a day are significantly more likely to be overweight or obese and gain more unhealthy weight over time, according to a new study from the School of Medicine. Based on the findings, the researchers say physicians should encourage families to restrict young chi …