College of Public Health

+ Our momentum is red-hot!

The College of Public Health gives a big thank you to everyone who stopped by our tent for the Temple vs. Penn State tailgate and football game. It was the largest home crowd for a football game in Temple’s history, and we wouldn’t have been able to achieve that without you!

Temple has now opened the season with a 3-0 record. That ties for the longest winning streak in the two-and-a-half seasons under head coach Matt Rhule and is the first 3-0 start since 2010. The Owls have not opened a season 4-0 since 1974 when they started 6-0 en route to a 8-2 record.

If you’d like to relive the glory, click here for a full game recap, video highlights and photos.

+ CPH receives $2.7 million grant for tobacco control research.

The National Cancer Institute has awarded the College of Public Health $2.7 million to research tobacco intervention in low-income families in Philadelphia.

Principal investigators of the study Stephen Lepore, PhD, and Bradley Collins, PhD, both with the department of social and behavioral sciences, will collaborate with community partner North Inc. to test an innovative “high-tech, warm-touch” intervention approach to address parental smoking and child tobacco-smoke exposure.

The intervention combines traditional behavioral counseling with technology, including a mobile application and text messaging, to provide low-cost, intensive and evidence-based tobacco control interventions to a high-need population.

“Children’s secondhand smoke exposure is a leading cause of preventable disease and death—a problem magnified in low-income and young children,” said Lepore. This is the second collaboration for Lepore and Collins around smoking cessation. (Read more on their first collaboration, Kids Safe and Smokefree or KiSS.)

Lepore is the founding director of the Social & Behavioral Health Interventions Lab, and Collins is the founding director of the Health Behavior Research Clinic.

+ Price and Lindberg selected as winners of the 2015 Gallery of Success.

Glenda Price, CPH ’61, and Brian Lindberg, SSW ’80, have been selected to receive this year's Gallery of Success award, which focuses on careers and achievements of alumni from across the University. These alumni are recognized for their professional accomplishments and serve as an inspiration to students and the honor that it brings to Temple University. Awardees are prominently highlighted for one year in Mitten Hall’s lower level as well as in informational interviews.

Join us for a Lunch and Learn panel featuring our awardees before the big ceremony.

Glenda Price, CPH ’61

President of the Detroit Public School Foundation
Served as the interim president for the Michigan Colleges Foundation
Seventh president of Marygrove College, the first African-American woman to hold the position

Brian Lindberg, SSW ’80

Executive director of the Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care
An advocate for healthcare and aging policy on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Former staff director of the House Select Committee on Aging's Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests

Friday, Oct. 9, 2015
11 a.m.‒1 p.m.
President’s Conference Suite 1810 Liacouras Walk

RSVP by Oct. 6 to cph_alumnirelations@temple.edu or 215.204.5674.

+ Homecoming is for everyone! Join CPH at these special events during Homecoming weekend.

Friday, Oct. 9, 11 a.m.‒1 p.m.
CPH Gallery of Success Awardee’s Panel
featuring Glenda Price, CPH ’61, and Brian Lindberg, SSW ’80
Free

Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Boyer Mosaic Concert
6:30-7:15 p.m.: Pre-concert reception for CPH attendees at the Diamond Club with a cash bar and free refreshments.
Exclusive center balcony seating for CPH attendees at the concert
Temple Performing Arts Center

Registration in advance is required to attend the pre-concert reception and to receive exclusive seating. RSVP to Star Hamilton by Oct. 1, 2015, at star.hamilton@temple.edu or 215.204.5674.

Saturday, Oct. 10
Homecoming Tailgate and Football Game, Temple vs. Tulane
Lincoln Financial Field
Free for the first 10 alumni and a guest who respond to this email blast with “CPH@GoOwls”

Sunday, Oct. 11, 9:30 a.m.‒12 p.m.
Department of Nursing Continuing Education Offering and Reception
Featuring a panel of three alumni from the Temple, BSN and graduate programs will speak on the impact of Temple nursing on their professional careers. The CEU program will include time in the Ginsburg Health Sciences Library viewing the National Library of Medicine’s - Pictures of Nursing: the Zwerdling Postcard Collection, an exhibit entitled Nursing Profession: Image and Impact that includes artifacts from the Temple nursing programs over time.
Free

Sunday, Oct. 11, 2 p.m.
Anything Goes Musical
Tomlinson Theatre
Free for the first 10 alumni and a guest who respond to this email blast with “CPH@Anything Goes” in the subject line.

For additional information about the events listed above, contact Star Hamilton, assistant director of development and alumni relations, at star.hamilton@temple.edu or 215.204.5674.

+ Leadership and open faculty positions at CPH

This is an exciting time for the College of Public Health at Temple University. We are experiencing unprecedented growth in our enrollment, graduate programs and research. Over the next three years, the college will expand its footprint with a new building on Main Campus and add an additional 50 faculty members. In 2014, Dean Laura A. Siminoff, an eminent public health social scientist who has been continuously funded by NIH for 25 years, joined the college. Under her leadership, CPH is engaging in a realignment of interdisciplinary research and academic programming within public health.

+ Upcoming Events

Oct. 8‒11, 2015
Homecoming
View the CPH Homecoming schedule above to find opportunities to connect and re-engage with the college, and don’t forget to bring your Temple spirit. Click here to see the complete list of Homecoming offerings across the university.

Oct. 28, 2015
Grand Opening of the North Broad Physical Therapy Center
President Theobald will officially open physical therapy’s pro bono clinic serving underinsured and uninsured residents of North Philadelphia. This event is open to all alumni of the College of Public Health. If you are interested in attending or want to learn more about ways you can support this special endeavor, contact Mary Sinnott at msinnott@temple.edu.

Oct. 31, 2015
Temple vs. Notre Dame Tailgate and Football Game
Tailgate at 9 a.m.; kickoff at 1 p.m.
Lincoln Financial Field

If you are interested in attending the tailgate and football game with the College of Public Health, contact Star Hamilton at star.hamilton@temple.edu or 215.204.5674.

Nov. 3, 2015
CPH Alumni Reception @ APHA Annual Meeting
Chicago
More details are coming soon.

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