School of Public Health

News Articles

November 12, 2019

Study Shows Biomarker Accurately Diagnoses Deadly Infant Disease - Public Health

Dr. Zhide Fang worked with a team of researchers from LSUHSC to determine a new noninvasive predictive #biomarker for necrotizing enterocolitis, a deadly intestinal disease found in newborns. @LSUPublicHealth A diagnostic study of 136 premature infants found that a protein involved in managing harmful bacteria in the human intestine is a reliable biomarker for the […]

October 18, 2019

Alcohol HIV/AIDS Research Poster Presentations 2019 - Public Health

The 2019 National Hispanic Science Network Conference gave the opportunity to our LSUHSC SoPH Students and Faculty to present their Posters this past October 9 – 11, 2019.  Dr. Tekeda Ferguson, faculty member and Comprehensive Alcohol HIV/AIDS Research Center Investigator, and epidemiology doctoral student, Erika Rosen, MPH presented work from multiple alcohol projects. Reduced Alcohol […]

October 8, 2019

Data From the New Orleans Alcohol Use in HIV Study: High-Risk Alcohol Using People Living With HIV and Systemic Oxidative Stress or Inflammation - Public Health

Dr. Tekeda Ferguson, LSUHSC School of Public Health Assistant Professor, discusses  how HIV infection is now largely a chronic condition as a result of the success of antiretroviral therapy in her new research study “Reduced Serum Osteocalcin in High-Risk Alcohol Using People Living With HIV Does not Correlate With Systemic Oxidative Stress or Inflammation:  Data […]

October 7, 2019

Invitation: 2019 John Rock Visiting Scholar Presentation by Dr. Francine Laden

Everyone is invited to attend this year’s School of Public Health John Rock Scholar presentation, “Environmental Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases and Interactions with Social Determinants of Health” by Dr. Francine Laden. This presentation is open to the School of Public Health & Health Sciences Center and is scheduled to be held Thursday, October 17th, 12:00p. For more details visit https://sph.lsuhsc.edu/invitation-2019-john-rock-visiting-scholar-formal-presentation-to-sph-hsc-thursday-october-17-2019/?preview_id=5527&preview_nonce=cf5992ed3e&post_format=standard&_thumbnail_id=5528&preview=true