November 2, 2021
Thank you, Dr. Schatz!
Enid Schatz will step down as chair of the Department of Public Health in Summer 2022 in order to focus on research. School of Health Professions Dean Kristofer Hagglund will initiate a national search for a new department chair before the end of this year. “I’m grateful for all of the work Dr. Schatz has done to grow our Public Health degree programs and increase the visibility of Public Health at Mizzou,” Dean Hagglund said. “The Department of Public Health has a very bright future.” Dr. Schatz is a professor of Public Health and core faculty in the Department of…
November 1, 2021
Cheak-Zamora leads American Public Health Association’s Maternal and Child Health Section
Nov. 1, 2021 Nancy Cheak-Zamora, associate professor of Health Sciences, is serving as the chair of the American Public Health Association’s Maternal and Child Health Section. In honor of the section’s 100th year, APHA talked to Dr. Cheak-Zamora about how the section’s advocacy efforts have evolved and what’s ahead. “It’s really important to develop our future practitioners and make sure we’re there to support them,” Dr. Cheak-Zamora said.
October 29, 2021
Credit Card Debt Is Bad for More Than Just Your Finances (The New York Times)
Carrying credit card debt isn’t just bad for your budget. It may also affect your health. The stress of carrying card debt through adulthood is linked to poor health, including joint pain or stiffness that interferes with daily activities, a recent study from the University of Missouri found. Beyond the worries about repaying debt, one reason for poor health may be that people with high debt have little money left to pay for resources that protect their health, the study said.
October 12, 2021
Multidisciplinary team receives poster award
Oct. 12, 2021 At the Boston University Speech Motor Control Symposium, Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences associate professor (pictured); Katie Threlkeld, Health & Rehabilitation Science PhD student; and Mojgan Golzy, School of Medicine; received an award for their dysarthric speech research poster. The $250 prize will be donated to the SLHS student travel fund. …
October 6, 2021
How storytelling can help public health officials combat distrust, skepticism
October 6, 2021 Contact: Brian Consiglio, 573-882-9144, consigliob@missouri.edu Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, public health experts and scientists have struggled to get some segments of the public to heed their warnings about the importance of following public health measures aimed at controlling the spread of the virus. Lise Saffran, an associate teaching professor at the MU School of Health Professions, studies public health and earned a master’s degree in fine arts and creative writing from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. In a recently published commentary titled, “Public health storytelling practice,” she explains how storytelling can help public health…
October 6, 2021
Faculty and students present dysarthric speech research at Boston Symposium
Oct. 6, 2021 At the Boston University Speech Motor Control Symposium, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences PhD student Katie Threlkeld, faculty member Dr. Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, and Mojgan Golzy of the Department of Health Management and Informatics, were awarded with the third place Best Poster Award for their poster titled, “Can listener training improve the reliability of auditory-perceptual judgments of dysarthric speech?”. Dr. Kuruvilla-Dugdale shares, “This study was possible due to the sheer determination of student researchers and study participants during the global pandemic. This project forced us to think outside the box and implement data collection and analysis procedures that…
October 6, 2021
Mizzou Motion Analysis Center presents research on international stage
Rose Schauffler The Department of Physical Therapy is pleased to announce that faculty and students from the Mizzou Motion Analysis Center (Mizzou-MAC) were invited to share their research at the 17th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering and 5th Conference on Imaging and Visualization in September. Virtually hosted from Bonn, Germany, Dr. Trent Guess provided an oral presentation titled, “Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Modelling of the Pediatric Knee.” Outstanding work, Dr. Guess. Additionally, Rose Schauffler, a master’s student in biomedical engineering and team member within the Mizzou-MAC, presented, “Novel Knee Arthrometer Use in Clinical…
September 30, 2021
Painful Debt: How Credit Card Bills Can Hurt Your Health (Forbes)
It’s easy to quantify the pain that high levels of debt can cause to one’s finances by either looking at the opportunity cost or the squeeze on the ability to pay day-to-day expenses. But causing pain to the actual body? According to new research, the ache you may feel or the stiffness after work may also relate to the amount of debt you have. Researchers evaluated Baby Boomers as they aged, starting from 28-to-40 and then checking them again at 50 years old. They separated the group into…
September 17, 2021
Telehealth services provide quality pediatric care, MU survey finds
An MU survey finds that telehealth services are able to provide quality pediatric care, and bridge the gap for rural families
September 14, 2021
New faculty spotlight: Idethia Shevon Harvey
Sept. 14, 2021 This is part of a series of Q&As introducing faculty who have joined the School of Health Professions for the 2021–22 academic year. See full list of new faculty. Idethia Shevon Harvey, DrPH Associate Professor of Health Sciences Health Professions Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence Dr. Harvey joined the MU School of Health Professions this summer as an associate professor of Health Sciences and the school’s Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence. She researches chronic disease management and health disparities among rural and aging African Americans. She is teaching 2400 Contemporary Health Issues. How did you…