Announcements:

Alumnus Maria Cecilia Mosquera, MD, MPH in ENHS (LSUHSC), is now serving on the EIS Swine Flu Investigation Team studying the largest US outbreak to date in NYC. See report.

Congratulations on the Schweitzer Fellows in School of Public Health, read more.

Students, faculty and staff attended the 2nd Annual LSU School of Public Health Capstone Day on May 8, 2009. Twenty-two graduating students participated in the event which featured 14 posters and four oral presentations. Special recognition in the poster session went to Jonathan Robert Howe, Hip-Hop 2 Health: A Dance Program Targeting Overweight & Obese Adolescents & Young Adults; Sarah Anne Lynch, Prospect Health: A behavioral Initiative in the Promotion of Childhood Cancer Survivor Health; and Maeghan Alisha Davis, Relationship Power in MSM Relationships. In the oral category, Tyra Nadair Toston received special recognition for her presentation, Centering Pregnancy in Louisiana: Findings from a Descriptive Study.

Sincere appreciation goes out to faculty who served as academic advisors for students completing capstones, with special thanks to those who served the students listed above: Dr. Melinda Sothern, Dr. Joan Wightkin and Dr. Billy Robinson.

Elizabeth T. H. (Terry) Fontham, Dean of the LSU School of Public Health, makes history - first non-physician elected national President of the American Cancer Society. Read more, 1, 2.

Elizabeth T.H. Fontham, Dr PH Dean, LSUHSC School of Public Health

You can change the world with a MPH degree

Why choose a career in public health? (read more)

Prevention begins here (read more)