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IEEE Xplore not just for Computer Science

While IEEE Xplore is a resource mainly used by Computer Science, it is also a great resource for information on technical devices including those used in neuroscience, business, health, genetics, biomedical and physics. IEEE Xplore describes itself as a powerful online resource … Continue reading

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“The Healthcare Movie” Screening at Cinefest

The Georgia Public Health Training Center is sponsoring a premier screening of “The Healthcare Movie” at Georgia State University. This documentary, narrated by Keifer Sutherland, explores the health care system in Canada: how it came to be, how it works … Continue reading

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Community-Based Participatory Research focus of August’s “Health Education Research” Journal

The role of Community-Based Participatory Research and its potential in reducing worldwide health disparities is described in the latest issue of Health Education Research.  The Executive Editor of the journal is Dr. Michael Eriksen, founding Dean of GSU’s future School … Continue reading

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New Article Details Ongoing Use of Eugenics Myth

Congratulations to Paul A. Lombardo, MA, JD, PhD, for his recently published article, “Return of the Jukes: Eugenic Mythologies and Internet Evangelism” in the The Journal of Legal Medicine. “The Jukes” is a pseudonym, coined by Richard Dugdale in 1877, … Continue reading

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Prominent Epidemiologist Sandro Galea Speaks at GSU

Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H., Chairperson of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health will present “The Urban Brain: How Urban Environments Affect How We Think, Behave, and Feel” at the GSU Partnership for Urban Health Research Annual … Continue reading

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Dr. Brenda Pitts, Sports Management/Marketing Expert

Did you know that in 2010 licensed NASCAR products brought in over 3 billion dollars?  Or that the economic impact of Super Bowl XLV was over 10 billion dollars? Dr. Brenda Pitts, Professor of Kinesiology and Health, was a keynote … Continue reading

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Social Determinants of Health Lecture

University College of London

Sir Michael Marmot will be appearing at GSU!  Professor Marmot is Director of the International Institute for Society and Health, and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, at University College, London.  He is also the Chair of the World Health … Continue reading

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Historical Health Posters from China

Family Planning Benefits the Health of Mothers and Children

The National Library of Medicine’s History Division presents an online exhibition, Family Planning and Socioeconomic Development:  Health Posters from the People’s Republic of China. The exhibit contains posters from 1950 through the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960-1970′s.  Details from … Continue reading

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Thompson’s “The Paralympic Athlete” published in advance of London Games

Congratulations to Walter R Thompson, Ph.D, Regents Professor in Exercise Science for the publication of his book, The Paralympic Athlete.  Dr. Thompson is a member of both the Department of Kinesiology and Health (College of Education) and the Division of … Continue reading

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Urban Housing Documentary at Cinefest

Head over to GSU’s very own movie theater, Cinefest, this week to see “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city … Continue reading

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