A Failure to Communicate
A Failure to Communicate
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, associate professor Holley Wilkin discusses the importance of effective public health messaging and why it’s been largely ineffective at flattening the curve.
Public Health Team Receives $1.3 Million Federal Grant To Study COVID-19 Research Participation in Black Communities
Public Health Team Receives $1.3 Million Federal Grant To Study COVID-19 Research Participation in Black Communities
The NIH has awarded an interdisciplinary public health team a grant through its RADx Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program to study COVID-19 research participation in Black communities in Atlanta.
"A Crisis for Every American"
"A Crisis for Every American"
COVID-19 has heightened housing insecurity in the U.S. Here, Georgia State faculty share eight research-backed ways to help keep Americans off the streets.
Georgia State To Offer Online Degree Completion Program for Registered Dental Hygienists
Georgia State To Offer Online Degree Completion Program for Registered Dental Hygienists
The Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions has received University System of Georgia Board of Regents approval to offer an online associate degree (A.S.) to bachelor of science (B.S.) degree completion program for registered dental hygienists. The first class will enroll in fall 2021.
Community Health Nursing Students Screen Classmates for COVID-19
Community Health Nursing Students Screen Classmates for COVID-19
Clinical rotations are limited for graduating nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic, but one group of students practices screening skills on classmates and saves faculty valuable class time keeping all safe.
A Voice for the Vulnerable
A Voice for the Vulnerable
Georgia State faculty have come together to study how the pandemic is affecting refugees in Clarkston — and help address the community’s unique needs.
Georgia State Researchers Awarded $1.3 Million To Combat Suicide Among Older Adults During COVID-19 and Beyond
Georgia State Researchers Awarded $1.3 Million To Combat Suicide Among Older Adults During COVID-19 and Beyond
Researchers are developing the Belonging and Empathy, With Intentional Targeted Helping (BE WITH) project, which is designed to reduce social isolation, loneliness and elevated suicide risk in racially diverse older adults, the demographic hardest hit by COVID-19.
Georgia State Researchers Developing Platform To Protect Privacy in Large-Scale Brain Imaging Analyses
Georgia State Researchers Developing Platform To Protect Privacy in Large-Scale Brain Imaging Analyses
Faculty have received $3 million to further develop a tool that will allow researchers to participate in brain imaging analysis without sharing protected patient data.
The Problem We All Live With
The Problem We All Live With
As Black communities are being devastated by COVID-19, Georgia State researchers are working to illuminate the ways systemic racism drives health disparities, harming and even killing African Americans.
Prevention Research Center, City of Clarkston Announce Collaboration to Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19
Prevention Research Center, City of Clarkston Announce Collaboration to Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19
The Prevention Research Center at Georgia State has teamed up with the city of Clarkston, Ga., to distribute multilanguage lawn signs on COVID-19 protections in high-pedestrian areas to help curb the spread of the disease.