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  • Please join us on Wednesday (4/29) and Thursday (4/30) to support our students at the Spring 2020 Summit offered via Zoom. Contact Dr. Nelson-Hurwitz via email for complete schedule and Zoom links.

    Spring 2020 Undergraduate Summit Flyer (4/29 & 4/30 from 4:00 - 5:00pm)

    - Posted 3 years ago

  • We are pleased to announce that our Public Health Program has been reaccredited by CEPH for a seven-year term, extending to December 31, 2030.

    - Posted 6 months ago

  • The Office of Public Health Studies (OPHS) is accredited as a public health program by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), an independent agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools and programs of public health. Our last CEPH site visit was held in September 2014, and the program received full accreditation through July 1, 2023. 

    Our public health program will be having an on-site re-accreditation review by CEPH on March 30-31, 2023. CEPH welcomes written communication from third parties until 30 days before the scheduled visit. This is an opportunity for our stakeholders to submit feedback directly to CEPH about the public health program, practices and procedures. Students, alumni, faculty, staff, community partners and members of the general public are all stakeholders who may make a third-party comment during this process.

    Third-party comments should be sent directly to CEPH via email (submissions@ceph.org) or mail written comments to:

    Council on Education for Public Health
    1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 220
    Silver Springs, MD 20910.

    The deadline for submission of written comments to CEPH is February 28, 2023.

    - Posted 1 year ago

  • OPHS is hiring! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health to teach undergraduate and graduate public health students and other professionals. Apply at go.hawaii.edu/2YZ by November 18 for the best consideration.

    Assistant Professor Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health flyer

    - Posted 1 year ago

  • OPHS is hiring! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology/Data Science to teach undergraduate and graduate public health students and other health professionals. Apply at go.hawaii.edu/uY2 by November 18 for the best consideration.

    Assistant Professor in Epidemiology/Data Science flyer

    - Posted 1 year ago

  • We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology to teach undergraduate and graduate public health students and other health professionals. Apply at go.hawaii.edu/2Yz by November 18 for the best consideration.

    Assistant Professor in Epidemiology flyer

    - Posted 1 year ago

  • Now accepting Fall 2023 applications to the MPH, MS, and PhD programs. Please see our Admissions page for the program information and application materials.

    - Posted 1 year ago

  • The Hawai‛i Chapter of Delta Omega invites all interested OPHS graduate and undergraduate students to submit an abstract for the National Delta Omega Poster Contest Display.  It will take place at the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) annual meeting, scheduled for October 23rd through 27th, 2021 (“hybrid” this year, so both in Denver, Colorado, and virtually).  Each chapter is able to select no more than 2 abstracts for the graduate student competition, and 1 for the undergraduate competition.

    Students whose work is selected by Delta Omega’s national committee will receive a $350 cash prize from the national Delta Omega Honor Society, which the OPHS will match, for a total of $700.  National awards will be presented during the Delta Omega Social Hour at APHA.  In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their poster during the APHA scientific poster sessions, and abstracts will be published on the National Delta Omega webpage.

    All abstracts must be submitted via email for consideration to jsugimot@hawaii.edu by 4/30/2021, 5:00 p.m.  Submissions must use the attached form.  No late or incomplete submissions will be accepted or considered.

    Students from our department have been national Delta Omega student poster contest award winners for 11 of the past 13 years.  We look forward to your submissions.

    Please contact Dr. Sugimoto-Matsuda if you have any questions.

    - Posted 2 years ago

  • The Healthy Hawaiʻi Initiative Evaluation Team, in collaboration with leadership from the Hawaiʻi Department of Health, the Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute, and the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, are pleased to announce a Special Issue addressing the intersections between chronic diseases and Covid-19 in our state. 

    The Special Issue, entitled “Roadmap to a healthier and more equitable Hawaiʻi: Solutions to root causes at the intersections of chronic disease and Covid-19” seeks article submissions that make contributions toward systems, environmental, and policy changes, as well as those that discuss or target root causes of health disparities in chronic disease. We are looking for all types of articles, including original articles, reviews, viewpoints, and editorials. Students are also highly encouraged to contribute. 

    To be considered for the Special Issue, please send an unstructured 350-word, or less, abstract to chroniccondCovid@gmail.com by midnight, October 9, 2020. We aim to publish the Special Issue next summer. 

    Full details available in this PDF.

    - Posted 3 years ago

  • Our public health ‘ohana lost an amazing person recently. Mary was a stellar student, researcher, and person. She earned her Master of Public Health from OPHS in 2013 where she was active in the Hui and in community service. She was research faculty in our department and later worked as a GRA as she pursued her nursing degree. A UH scholarship fund has been created to honor her legacy in public health and nursing: www.uhfoundation.org/MaryGuoScholarship. Gifts in memory of Mary Guo can also be made payable to “UH Foundation” with a note or cover letter indicating “Mary Guo Scholarship” which can be sent to UH Foundation, P.O. Box 11270, Honolulu, HI 96828-0270. Some of her research publications can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/PCD/ISSUES/2015/15_0092.htmhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10995-018-2597-8, and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6401201/.

    Mary Guo

    - Posted 3 years ago

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