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Georgia’s opioid crisis is hitting hard, especially in rural communities. The Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Augusta University received a $1 million Health Resources and Services Administration Award to help those with opioid-use...
Over the years, the program has provided more than 5,000 screenings to migrant workers.
Learn how students are bringing quality care to farm workers in rural South Carolina.
“The Providers” follows three health care providers as they bring care to those in rural areas of northern New Mexico who are not only struggling with a shortage of doctors, but the devastation caused by the growing opioid epidemic.
When the College of Allied Health Sciences announced a new PhD program in applied health sciences, Marlo Vernon knew she had to apply. The program combines advanced health care education with excellence in research to produce graduates with...
Hope House saved Amber Wilhelm's life from an opioid substance use disorder. Developed by Drs. Aaron Johnson and Lufei Young, the Augusta Area Comprehensive Offender Re-entry Program aims to help more women like Amber find their future through...
The grant will fund the Augusta Area Comprehensive Offender Re-entry Program, which partners with existing local organizations to integrate people back into their communities.
Dr. David Satcher, former Surgeon General and Director of the CDC under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, addressed the Institute of Public and Preventive Health Summer Scholars.
Every summer, the Augusta University College of Nursing hosts an interdisciplinary student-run health fair providing free personalized and preventative health screenings, education and services to farmworkers in rural South Carolina. This outreach...
The application deadline for the Institute of Public and Preventive Health's Summer Public Health Scholars Program is Feb. 15.
Dr. Jennifer E. Miller, an assistant professor of medical ethics and population health at New York University and president of Bioethics International, will speak at Augusta University Wednesday, Dec. 6. Her public talk, Ethics, Transparency and...
Every summer, students at Augusta University offer free personalized and preventative health screenings, education and services to farmworkers in rural South Carolina. In 12 years, they’ve provided more than 3,000 screenings. It’s part of a long...
Researchers at the Clinical and Digital Health Sciences Department at Augusta University, in collaboration with theClubhou.se, received a prestigious grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to bring innovation to public health. AUGUSTA, Ga. –...
The Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Augusta University has launched its Center for Bioethics and Health Policy to address the challenges in biomedical ethics, health policy and public health. The CBHP’s interdisciplinary membership will...
Dr. J. Aaron Johnson, assistant division chief of Health Services Research in the Institute of Public and Preventive Health (IPPH) at Augusta University, has been named the Institute’s interim director, succeeding Dr. Selina Smith who served as the...
Product created by researchers at The Dental College of Georgia shows promise in fighting virulent bugs AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 7, 2016) – A green tea hand sanitizer created by an Augusta University researcher is proving to be highly effective in...
Can an app help parolees with Substance Use Disorder overcome their addictions? Augusta University graduate student Rebecca Howell has teamed up with Institute of Public and Preventative Health associate professor J. Aaron Johnson to study how a...
Augusta University’s Institute of Public and Preventive Health will host the Correctional Health Research Program Symposium on Tuesday, May 10 from 10 a.m-3 p.m. in the J. Harold Harrison, M.D. Education Commons McKnight Room. The symposium’s theme...
Selina Smith, director of the Institute of Public and Preventive Health (IPPH) at Augusta University, has been named president of the Georgia Public Health Association, the state’s leading forum for public health researchers, practitioners and...
Internationally recognized bioethicist Kathy Kinlaw will be at Augusta University on March 3 and 4 as the Alan Roberts Visiting Professor of Ethics. Kinlaw is the associate director of the Emory University Center for Ethics and the director of the...
