Jessica Klusek (COMD) has been awarded $149K from the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. She will use the grant to examine aging language trajectories for female carriers of the FMR1 premutation.
Growing up in Nigeria, Omonefe "Nefe" Omofuma studied pharmacy. It was during her internship at a federal teaching hospital that she observed the complexities and peculiarities that influenced survival outcomes for patients battling cancer.
After decades of moving between buildings on and off campus, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders finally has a forever home at the Close-Hipp Building. Members and friends of the department celebrated the completion of the newly renovated space.
Doctors told Jasmine Norris that she would never be able to complete a higher education degree due to traumatic brain injuries, but she proved them wrong. The Arnold School alumna not only completed a bachelor's in public health, she's on track to graduate with her law degree.
The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine convened a committee of experts led by Russell Pate to develop strategies to help implement actions to improve national physical activity surveillance.
The Association for Psychological Science has selected Xiaoming Li, director and Endowed Chair of the SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality and professor in the Department of the Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, as a Fellow.
Based on nominations from graduate directors across the university, this award honors graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in leadership on campus, in their academic disciplines, or in the community.
August communication sciences and disorders graduate pursues speech-language pathology career specializing in children with hearing loss and introducing underrepresented populations to the field.
Ashley White, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, won the Outstanding Student Abstract Award from SCPHA. She is the seventh consecutive Arnold School student to receive this honor.
Members of the Arnold School's Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior (HPEB) as well as the new Arnold School of Public Health Community Health Worker Institute will lead three new projects with funding from The Duke Endowment.
The Arnold Institute on Aging will host the 2019 Childhood Obesity Lecture on September 19 with a keynote from Deanna Hoelscher. Submit your poster abstracts through August 19 to exchange ideas related to the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity and associated behaviors.
Kimberly Nelson has been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with a CDC Childhood Immunization Champion Award. This honor recognizes individuals who demonstrate exemplary efforts to promote childhood immunizations in their communities.