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Our study accounted for stroke throughout later life and compared African American and white women and men with and without stroke beginning at the same starting time. Our study was published in a recent issue of Disability and Health Journal as, “Stroke, Disability, and Mortality in the United States: 1999-2009.” Our study extends our research […]

The study looks at how education influences disability for people with cognitive impairment and was published recently in The American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias as, “More Education May Limit Disability and Extend Life for People with Cognitive Impairment.” Our study extends our research on active life expectancy. That is the average length […]

The Department of Public Health Sciences recently hosted a Graduate Programs Open House in the third floor atrium of the College of Health and Human Services. This event was a fantastic opportunity for prospective students to meet and have their questions answered by department faculty, current students, and representatives from the Graduate School. Discussion topics […]

Second year MSPH student, Charnele Walton (pictured second from left), co-led a presentation on the media’s influence on the field of public health. The live webcast was held on Wednesday, October 8th in Charleston, South Carolina which engaged undergraduates student on five college campuses in South Carolina. The presentation was an outgrowth of Charnele’s summer […]

Chelsea Moxlow, MSPH class of 2013, was recently recognized as one of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) outstanding young health educators for 2014. ______________________________________________

Dr. Katharine Stewart recently celebrated with one of her former students, Dr. Brooke E. E. Montgomery, as the third manuscript from Dr. Montgomery’s dissertation was accepted for publication. Dr. Montgomery’s doctoral research was supported by a predoctoral fellowship from NIDA (F31 DA026286) and focused on the role of various characteristics of religion (religious practice, religious […]

Dr. Ahmed Arif presented two research posters at the annual meeting of the American College of Epidemiology held in Silver Spring, MD from September 6-9, 2014. The first research poster entitled “Association between comorbidities and asthma among children: A case-control study” was based on Dr. Arif’s research, funded by the Faculty Research Grant, conducted in […]

The Department of Public Health Sciences Graduate Programs Open House is Friday, October 24 from 2:00-4:00 PM in the College of Health and Human Services building Third Floor Atrium. This is an opportunity to check out the department’s Accredited Graduate Degree programs: Master of Health Administration, Master of Sciene in Public Health, and PhD in […]

Dr. Jim Laditka and Dr. Sarah Laditka presented a research seminar to faculty and graduate students in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina on September 22, “Treats All ’Round: Using Multinomial Markov Modeling and Microsimulation to Address Missing Data in Longitudinal Analysis in a Study of Unemployment and […]

Depression may not be associated with adverse birth outcomes among a predominantly healthy population of non-Hispanic White, well educated women.​ These findings from the thesis of Kenesha Smith, a 2014 graduate of the MSPH program and current student in the PhD in Public Health Sciences program, were recently presented at the annual American College of […]