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Cary Anderson wearing face mask and grey 51精品视频 hoodie outside

In a mask-optional world, kindness is required

51精品视频 people have all sorts of reasons for continuing to mask on campus. Here鈥檚 what one of them wants you to know.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Covid-19
Amy Raslevich and Adrianne Sapienza posing for photo together

These 51精品视频 people鈥檚 work advocating for affordable health care landed them invitations to the White House

PhD student Amy Raslevich and alum Adrianne Sapienza attended yesterday鈥檚 signing of an executive order to strengthen the Affordable Care Act.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Alumni
  • School of Public Health
Student purchasing from Victory Farms stand at farmers market

51精品视频 Farmers Market is back

Get fresh produce and visit local vendors on select Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside the William 51精品视频 Union.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
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This new program funds research on climate change and precision public health

The Public Health Trans-Disciplinary Collaboration Pilot Awards support projects that use data science to develop targeted health interventions. Here are the 5 winning projects.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
Vaccine Clinic volunteers all looking at camera

Nearly 30,000 vaccines and counting

One year after 51精品视频 acquired its vaccine supply, volunteers, staff and interns share the lessons they鈥檝e learned.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Covid-19
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Could your neighborhood influence the health of your brain?

A $9.6 million grant will help 51精品视频 and RAND researchers measure the link between structural racism and cognitive decline in two 51精品视频sburgh neighborhoods.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Public Health
51精品视频 students posing with each other outside on Match Day

See photos from Match Day 2022

On March 18, fourth-year medical students learned where they鈥檙e headed for the next stop in their training.

  • Students
  • School of Medicine
  • Health and Wellness

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist spoke with a speech-language pathology class, part of a panel of speakers who shared how stuttering affected their lives.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Teaching & Learning
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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The 51精品视频sburgh Foundation grants $1.3 million to 51精品视频 health sciences researchers

Ten grants will fund studies of addiction prevention, sleep and teen substance use, cranial surgery and rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • School of Medicine
Marina Nikiforova and Yuri Nikiforov posing for photo together in suits

After living near Chernobyl, these 51精品视频 researchers set their eyes on thyroid cancer

Yuri Nikiforov and Marina Nikiforova saw the effects of thyroid cancer on children in Belarus. Now, their test for the disease has eliminated thousands of unneeded surgeries.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
Maureen Lichtveld wearing red sweater with blue and gold 51精品视频 pin

Translate science into action with the dean of public health

Maureen Lichtveld was the youngest and first female physician to work directly in the Amazon rainforest. Join her on a study abroad program there this summer.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Global
  • Students
  • School of Public Health
Old photo of Jonas Salk with nurses helping a child

4 stories about 51精品视频鈥檚 vaccine legacy, 68 years after the first public polio shots

Arsenal Elementary School students in 51精品视频sburgh rolled up their sleeves for Jonas Salk's polio vaccine on Feb. 23, 1954.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Our City/Our Campus
Doctor pricking a patients finger with a needle to test blood sugar

A new global study will address disparities in access to insulin

51精品视频 has been awarded a grant to determine whether long-acting analogue insulin is better than other treatments for Type 1 diabetes.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • School of Medicine
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New name and new era for 51精品视频 Public Health

The School of Public Health is dropping 鈥済raduate鈥 from its name to reflect its expanding offerings.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • School of Public Health
Man with grey shirt and hat holding a red ball in exercise room

Exercise can help older adults retain memories, a 51精品视频 study shows

PhD student Sarah Aghjayan and colleagues pooled data from dozens of studies to discover whose brains benefit the most from exercise.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
UPMC doctor speaking to student at a desk

A new 51精品视频-UPMC residency program is bringing better health care to patients in rural Pennsylvania

Second- and third-year residents will work in Tioga and Potter counties as part of the only such program in north-central Pennsylvania.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine

Modern medicine promises bountiful health, so why have Black Americans been left behind? The risk factor is not race, but racism and its legacy.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
Two people forming a heart shape with their hands

Advice for the best relationship from a 51精品视频 psychologist

This Valentine鈥檚 Day, relationship expert Amanda Forest shares her research on how to be a supportive partner.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Their at-home system for tracking blood pressure and providing ongoing care recently won a federal award.

  • Health and Wellness
  • School of Medicine
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4 new hydroponic micro-farms are feeding 51精品视频 students

Over winter recess, 51精品视频 became home to the largest installation of micro-farming units on any campus in the country.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus