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Hawai‘i youth have high rates of chronic disease
Chronic diseases typically associated with middle age and older adulthood are common in young people needing hospital care in Hawaiʻi, according to public health researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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New 'one health' course connects animal, human, environment interactions
Although much remains unknown about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, it likely involved the spillover of a coronavirus from a bat or another species to humans. Diseases such as COVID-19exemplify how human health and animal health are often linked.
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Hawai‘i blood pressure monitoring programs a success
Remote healthcare is increasingly critical in the time of COVID-19.
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#PowerOfPublicHealth808 encourages Hawai‘i community to wear masks
To help demonstrate the power of public health in Hawaiʻi, two University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Office of Public Health Studies faculty launched a social media campaign #PowerOfPublicHealth808 to promote wearing face masks to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Tough Decisions Needs Better Data and Inclusive Voices
Writer Laurie Garrett once wrote, “Public health is a negative. When it is at its best, nothing happens: There are no epidemics.”
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Lessons from Another Pandemic
This week, the Legislature is convening to make critical spending decisions for the future of our state. Most of these decisions will dictate how we address our local COVID-19 outbreak.
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UH helps shelter homeless, provide services during COVID-19
Public, private and non-profit organizations and agencies formed the Behavioral Health and Homelessness Statewide Unified Response Group (BHHSURG) with the support of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, to break down silos and to ensure the community’s most vulnerable receive
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First national Medicare counseling certification
The first course training students to earn a national Medicare counseling certification began this past spring at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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Healthy Hawai‘i Initiative Celebrates 20 years of lifting communities
Preventing and managing chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease remain especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Physical Activity to benefit people with genetic risk of obesity
Certain genes influence people’s risk of obesity, but many aspects of their lives interact with those genes, and these interactions over a lifetime can drive people’s body mass index (BMI) further up or down.
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Now Accepting Graduate Applications for Spring 2021
Public health is more important than ever during the global COVID-19 pandemic. We are pleased to announce that we have opened applications for Spring 2021 for all of our graduate programs.
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Public health professor makes mental health of UH community priority
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa students and faculty may face new challenges to their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeanelle Sugimoto-Matsuda, an associate professor with the Office of Public Health Studies of the Myron B.
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Last day of instruction (Summer Session II)

Last day of instruction (Summer Session II)

Aug 14 | (All day)
Holiday: Statehood Day

Holiday: Statehood Day

Aug 21 | (All day)