Program helps student become public health advocate
Courtney Young didn’t see her bachelor’s degree in biology setting her in place to educate the staff of U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds and John Thune, but after almost two years of pursuing a Master of Public Health degree, Young was equipped to do that. Young, originally of Wisconsin, earned her biology degree from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2018 and enrolled in the online Master of Public Health program at ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ a year later.
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Department of Allied and Population Health update
Research is one of the key pillars of the Department of Allied and Population Health. Our multidisciplinary department brings faculty from respiratory care, medical laboratory sciences, pharmacy and public health backgrounds to work together to improve care of patients. Faculty are either tenure-track researchers with upward of 25% or higher dedicated time for research or nontenure track practice/instructional faculty with an emphasis on instructional scholarship and clinical service. Our research, therefore, can be broadly classified into research and scholarship of teaching and learning.
Using pig cornea to help humans
Chandrasekher is performing research that could lead to development of cornea-equivalents for transplantation purposes. Corneal transplantation, which is referred to as ‘keratoplasty’ in ophthalmology clinics, is the most common treatment for irreparable corneal damage. In most cases, only the diseased or injured section of the cornea is replaced.
Reineke lab research aims to eradicate tuberculosis
The mention of tuberculosis (TB) conjures ideas of an old-world disease that is either a problem of the past or a problem for developing nations. but both images are misleading. While TB is a very old disease with the first recorded case occurring over 3,300 years ago (the end of the Bronze Age, when the first forms of paper were developed by Egyptians), it still kills 1.4 million people per year today.
Focused on solving drug-delivery challenges
The research in my lab is focused on solving drug-delivery challenges at the interface of material and biological sciences. To this end, our current research is focused on developing oral pediatric drug-delivery systems using natural food protein biopolymers and localized drug-delivery approaches for breast cancer.
Improving health through prevention, management of diabetes, heart disease, stroke
Hunt, an associate professor, directs the Master of Public Health program within the Department of Allied and Population Health, arriving at ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ in September 2019.