Angels Carman, DrPH, Associate Professor in the Health, Behavior & Society department at CPH was recently appointed as the endowed chair in Rural Health Policy. Sponsored by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, their vision is creating a Kentucky where every individual and community reach their highest levels of health. L

Public health student Rachel Gressick was one of 20 UK undergraduates selected for the 2023 Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Fellowship program, providing undergraduates opportunities to develop new knowledge and skills through research within UK’s research priority areas.

First-generation undergraduate student Morgan Dechene is studying public health and pre-occupational therapy at UK. Passionate, driven, and determined, first-gen students simply “don’t give up." Morgan plans to pursue her doctorate in occupational therapy and become an occupational therapist — advancing on her passion and dream for helping more people. 

Elizabeth Crolley is a first-generation graduate and is currently a Senior Program Grant Coordinator staff member at CPH’s Office of Research. Growing up in a rural part of Eastern Kentucky surrounded by gravel, 4 wheelers, long daytime shadows, steep mountains, and slippery hills in the winter, Elizabeth is now helping people "help people" in public health.

Our 2023 Hall of Fame event in October will honor promising and distinguished public health alumni and leaders across different award categories. Have a nomination for the Promising Leader, Distinguished Leader and/or Hume Medallion Award? Nominations will be accepted until Friday, August 11th at 5pm. Contact Anna Hallahan, Senior Alumni Coordinator, with any questions.

Nicole Barber-Culp recently joined CPH as the Workforce Development and Public Health Practice Program Manager. Originally from Frankfort, KY., Nicole plans to expand our capacity to invest and diversify the current and future public health workforce through training, experiential learning, professional development, and collaboration.

Alumna Charlene Siza currently works at the CDC as an epidemiologist on the prevention team for the International Infection Control Program, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, and has traveled the globe focusing on international infection prevention and antimicrobial resistance.

Every day still presents some challenges for CPH alumna Sydney Clark who was born with a genetic condition that resulted in losing her vision over time. However, Syndey never allowed her disability to stop her from achieving her academic and professional goals — attending UK and becoming a public health influencer and champion.

CPH alumnus Marcus A. Hincks was promoted to major in the United States Air Force in a special ceremony attended by friends, family and colleagues at Sheppard AFB, Texas. Since, Maj. Hincks has assumed a new role as a fellow with the Air Force Budget Program at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

Amanda Ellis, Ph.D, vice chair of the Department of Biostatistics and director of graduate studies of the MS in Biostatistics program at CPH, is one of 10 winners to receive UK's 2022-23 Outstanding Teaching Awards — recognizing individuals who demonstrate special dedication to student achievement and who are successful in their teaching. 

With a grant totaling $7.4 million over the next five years (a renewed award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), the UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences will continue its work to study major environmental health impacts on Kentuckians.

We are inviting our faculty, staff, and students, along with friends, family, alumni, and other community partners, to come together to connect and celebrate with your public health community, a place where you belong. At this event (in-person and virtual option), you will experience a new appreciation for becoming a pumped-up public health champion!

We are excited to announce the 19th annual TCOM Conference – “Lex Go! Pop Health”- taking place on October 4-6, 2023 in Lexington, Kentucky. The Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) Annual Conference is a premier event in the healthcare industry, focused on person-centered care and collaborative approaches to improving patient outcomes management.

To address the significant number of workers in recovery from substance use disorder, the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance (KOSHS) program at the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center has developed a toolkit to assist small businesses in hiring and retaining this significant segment of the population.

With more navigable miles of water than any other state besides Alaska, Kentucky is a great place for swimming in the summer. But did you know that 329 Kentuckians died by unintentionally drowning from 2016 to 2021? Practicing water safety can help us all enjoy being near water, so use the following safety tips when being around water.

Understanding and addressing the impact of adverse life events is an important priority in the design of helping systems. This article discusses a model for developing trauma-informed systems using the Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) framework, a strategy for engineering person-centered care.