Giving birth as an adolescent correlates to mobility disability as a young adult, according to a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study of women from 14 countries.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Associate Professor Mapuana Antonio of the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health is the first faculty to be formally appointed the Queen Liliʻuokalani Distinguished Professorship in Native Hawaiian Culture.

The Office of Public Health Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. Vanessa Cunanan as a new faculty member.  Dr. Cunanan started as an Epidemiology instructor in Spring 2023 after having served as a lecturer in Fall 2022.  

Tarin Tanji, a master’s student and Saikaew Dudla, a PhD student, in the Office of Public Health Studies(OPHS) at the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, were selected to present their research posters at the recent American Public Health Association (APHA) conference in Boston.