History
The school officially opened on July 1, 2008, following decades of dedicated development. Planning for the school was initiated by a partnership of public health practitioners, academics, and business leaders. The partnership formed an official taskforce in 2002 in order to develop a strategic plan and seek the funding necessary to open a school of public health. The task force was successful and instrumental in the decision to open the school as a collaboration. In late 2007, each of our partnering university presidents or chancellors signed a memorandum of agreement to open the Colorado School of Public Health, and a founding dean, Richard Hamman, MD, DrPH, was appointed. Within months the Colorado School of Public Health admitted its first class of students, setting the stage for growth and future development. Among those developments, the school received full accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) in October 2010.
Today ColoradoSPH has more than 600 degree-seeking students, with more than 150 full-time faculty across the three university campuses. Each day the school finds new and innovative ways to expand its work, build partnerships, and achieve the goal of a healthier region and world.
Timeline
Prior to 1965...
In 1947, Governor Lee Knous founded the State Health Board and the 36th General Assembly passed eight health bills written by Board Director Dr. Florence Sabin, a public health pioneer. The bills aimed to give the board autonomy to manage issues such as milk pasteurization, cow inspections, sewage control, the establishment of municipal health boards, and the provision of health education.
1967
The Department of Preventive Medicine is founded at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with John "Jock" Candler Cobb II presiding as the founding chairperson until 1985. Dr. Cobb passed away at the age of 96, on June 20, 2016, leaving a legacy of involvement in public health in Colorado.
1980
Blue Ribbon State Panel recommends studying the need for a school of public health.
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2002
A committee comprised of health professionals, academics, university leaders, and public health community leaders is formed to determine the need for a school of public health in Colorado.
2005
The presidents of three universities in Colorado—the University of Colorado (CU), Colorado State University (CSU), and the University of Northern Colorado (UNC)—sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to begin planning for a collaborative school of public health.
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June 2008
On June 4, 2008, Gov. Bill Ritter signs the Colorado Public Health Reauthorization Act that requires identified boards, agencies, and public officials to collaboratively develop state and local public health plans that set priorities for the public health system in Colorado. The primary purpose of the act is to ensure that core public health services are available to every person in Colorado with a consistent standard of quality.
July 1, 2008
ColoradoSPH officially opens, formed from existing programs at the CU School of Medicine (MSPH in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics) and at UNC (MPH program), as well as a new program and special academic unit at CSU.
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August 2008
First class of students enroll, joining students from former Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics to form the school's comprehensive student body.
January 2009
CU faculty and staff relocate offices and classrooms from the 9th Colorado Health Sciences Campus where the CU health schools operated since 1925, to the Fitzsimons campus (now called the CU Anschutz Medical Campus) in Aurora, Colorado.
May 2009
ColoradoSPH hosts its first convocation ceremony, honoring graduates with tri-university diploma that features the seals of CU, CSU, and UNC.
August 2009
ColoradoSPH Departments of Environmental & Occupational Health and Health Systems, Management & Policy expand with the recruitment of the first department chairs, Drs. John Adgate and Adam Atherly.
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December 2009
The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, the State Board of Health, and the Public Health Act Advisory Group, publish the first statewide public health improvement plan, "Colorado’s Public Health Improvement Plan: From Act to Action." The plan names ColoradoSPH as the workforce development center for public health in the region.
January 2010
ColoradoSPH enrolls its first DrPH student.
March 2010
ColoradoSPH is among five academic institutions chosen to participate in Northrop Grumman Corporation’s University Global Alliance Program (UGAP), an initiative to unite higher education and the private sector for the purpose of accelerating the translation of thought leadership to global public health informatics, policy development, strategic planning, programmatic implementation and evaluation.
June 2010
John Kittelson, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Informatics, is appointed to a three-year term on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. As a member of the committee, Kittelson advises the FDA on issues related to the marketing and use of drugs targeting reproductive and urologic health.
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August 2010
The MAP ERC receives a $7.5 million grant from the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to expand the center's graduate education, research, workforce training, and community outreach programs focused on improving worker health and safety.
October 2010
ColoradoSPH receives accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health.
November 2010
ColoradoSPH Dean Richard Hamman is recognized with the international Jon Snow Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the United Kingdom's John Snow Society for his lifetime work to study the epidemiology of diabetes.
November 2010
Tim Byers, MD, MPH, associate director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center and professor and Associate Dean of Public Health Practice at ColoradoSPH, is named second vice president of the American Cancer Society’s National Board of Directors.
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2012
The Center for Global Health receives designation as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaboration Center.
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January 2012
A $1 million grant from the Colorado Health Foundation launches the "Culture of Wellness in Preschools" program of the Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center in several Denver area preschools to curb childhood obesity.
October 2012
The CDC names a Colorado agency-university collaboration as one of the nation’s five new Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence. The new center is a joint effort between the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment and ColoradoSPH’s CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CSU faculty.
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December 2013
ColoradoSPH launches a Doctor of Public Health degree program in Environmental & Occupational Health.
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February 2013
The Center for Public Health Practice hosts a public symposium on marijuana laws and public health following legalization in Colorado.
March 2014
The Center for Human Development, a multi-faceted medical facility developed by ColoradoSPH and Children’s Hospital Colorado opens in Guatemala to serve some 4,500 banana workers and their families with plans to eventually expand into neighboring communities. The center sits on 10-acres of AgroAmérica land and is staffed by CU doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, students and other health professionals rotating through Guatemala. The first physician, pediatric resident Jacob Mark, arrives on April 1, 2014.
April 2014
The ColoradoSPH Annual Public Health Case competition is launched by a team of students. The first topic is vaccinations.
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May 2014
Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD, and colleagues with the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, publish alarming findings in the May 7, 2014, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), that the prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes increased significantly between 2001 and 2009.
September 2014
Alum Kyle Roesler is the first ColoradoSPH grad to earn the prestigious ASPPH/CDC Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellowship.
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October 2014
The Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health are part of collaborative team awarded a $19 million national research mentoring network grant from the NIH. The NRMN initiative is intended to facilitate the development of robust mentoring relationships by coordinating nationwide pairings of scientific leaders and early career scientists (undergraduate students through junior faculty members) who may benefit from additional mentoring, including but not limited to individuals from under represented backgrounds.
October 2014
ColoradoSPH is awarded $3.4 million in federal funding to become one of 10 regional Public Health Training Centers (PHTC) dedicated to building the capacity of the nation’s public health workforce, establishing the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center within the school's Center for Public Health Practice.
January 2015
Carol Runyan, PhD, receives the Distinguished Career Award from APHA. Because injuries traditionally have not been addressed fully as part of the public health domain, funding for injury prevention research has been limited. Dr. Runyan is working to change that. She has spent more than 30 years in the injury prevention field and recently was awarded the 2014 Distinguished Career Award from the APHA’s Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) Section. In 2012, she received recognition from the CDC as one of the most influential leaders in the field over the past 20 years.
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February 2015
Dana Dabelea, PhD, in collaboration with the Colorado School of Public Health and others on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, launches the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, where scientists will help understand the causes and identify population approaches to preventing obesity and diabetes.
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April 2015
Spero Manson, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of Research at ColoradoSPH, is selected to serve on a panel of experts that will steer President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. The $215 million initiative seeks to leverage genomics, informatics, and health information technology to accelerate biomedical discoveries and enable personalized medicine approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
July 2015
Lee Newman, MD, MA, a professor in the ColoradoSPH Department of Environmental & Occupational Health; the director of the Center for Health, Work & Environment; and the director of the MAP ERC, is a member of a team that receives an award from the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
July 2015
An $8.1 million grant from the CDC to help train the next generation of occupational-health specialists is awarded to the MAP ERC. The five-year grant will support the MAP ERC, which educates both physicians on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and occupational-safety and health graduate students from CSU. It is one of only 18 such specialty centers in the United States.
October 2015
ECHO Colorado (Extension for Community Health Outcomes in Colorado), a statewide professional education initiative, is aimed at connecting health workforces to topic experts to increase access to specialty care and expert knowledge. Based at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, ECHO Colorado builds learning communities connected by video-conferencing technology across the rural and underserved areas of Colorado to improve health by improving access to knowledge of specialty care and by improving the effectiveness of disease prevention programs.
November 2015
A $3 million gift establishes The Colorado Trust Chair in American Indian Health at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH) at ColoradoSPH. This generous contribution by The Colorado Trust will enhance CAIANH’s mission and ability to address key health issues facing American Indian residents in the state of Colorado.
December 2015
Chosen as the sole winner of the 2015 Chapter Student Recognition Award from the national Society for Public Health Education, Meagan Cain was selected from dozens of undergraduate and graduate students for her contributions to public health, both locally and globally. Cain was also recognized by ColoradoSPH at the 2015 Public Health in the Rockies Conference with the school’s first Student Award for Excellence in Public Health Practice. In addition to her work in Nepal, where she acted as a lead relief distribution coordinator and emergency medical supply organizer following Nepal’s devastating earthquakes, she also established the Girls Moving Mountains project to educate and empower young girls before they are victims to sex trafficking. The project aims to establish a new generation of sustainable health educators—a passion for Cain.
2016
For the first time since the U.S. normalized relations with Cuba, a delegation of pediatricians co-led by Dr. Stephen Berman of Children’s Hospital Colorado and ColoradoSPH, travel to Havana to establish relationships with local physicians and collaborate on ways to improve child health in both countries. The historic meeting, on February 4-6, allows the pediatricians to share progress made in the areas of newborn care, early childhood development and chronic health conditions in children.
March 2016
Tim Byers, MD, MPH, is selected as the recipient of the 2016 ASPPH Academic Public Health Practice Excellence Award. Tim is presented with his award at the 2016 ASPPH Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia on March 21.
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May 2016
ColoradoSPH awards its first Doctor of Public Health degree in Community & Behavioral Health.
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May 2016
A groundbreaking study shows that a single injectable dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) along with bivalent oral polio vaccine could protect up to 90 percent of children from polio and strengthen community protection against the disease. The research, published in The Lancet, provides the evidence behind the worldwide switch to a newer polio vaccine strategy by demonstrating that new schedules of the injectable vaccine with the bivalent oral vaccine protects kids much faster and is safer than oral vaccine alone.
July 2016
ColoradoSPH receives re-accreditation through July 2023 from the Council on Education for Public Health.
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July 2016
The maternal and child health program within the school's Center for Global Health is re-designated by the WHO as a WHO Collaborating Center for Promoting Family and Child Health. The program, which is a partnership between Children’s Hospital Colorado and ColoradoSPH, is the only maternal and child health collaborating center in North America.
September 2016
The Center for Health, Work & Environment receives $4.7 million from the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to become one of six national Centers of Excellence to research the concept of Total Worker Health® (TWH) in Colorado, Utah, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.
December 2016
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice Elaine Morrato, DrPH, MPH, CPH is appointed as Interim Dean.
January 2017
A new Beryllium exposure standard is established as a result of more than 30 years of research and advocacy led by Dr. Lee Newman. In August 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed a federal standard to protect American workers from beryllium exposure. OSHA relied on more than 100 scientific research papers authored by Dr. Newman and his colleagues to justify the need for regulation. OSHA established the new exposure limit—a "new standard—10 times stronger than the old one established in the 1940s" that will keep more than 62,000 workers safer and healthier.
2017
The Center for Global Health adds the Division of Vaccines and Immunizations.
2017
The Center for Global Health receives WHO Collaboration Center re-designation.
May 2017
Dr. Dana Dabelea, the Conrad M. Riley Endowed Professor in epidemiology at ColoradoSPH, receives the 2017 American Diabetes Association (ADA) Kelly West Award—the premier award in epidemiology given by the ADA.
November 2017
Dean Samet is awarded the Wade Hampton Frost Lectureship Award at APHA 2017, one of the highest honors given by the APHA's epidemiology section. The award is named after the first epidemiologist and founding chair of the epidemiology department at Johns Hopkins, where Samet was also chair at one time.
November 2018
Kelly Moore, associate professor of community and behavioral health in the Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health, receives the 2018 Native American Child Health Advocacy Award for making major contributions to the field. A formal recognition from the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Native American Health (CONACH) took place at the AAP national conference in Orlando in November.
Read more about the Native American Child Health Advocacy Award
December 4, 2018
In celebration of the school’s 10th anniversary, a magazine featuring some of the school's greatest accomplishments to date is released and shared with faculty, students, staff, and friends of the school.
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December 20, 2018
A ColoradoSPH study published by Health Affairs is listed among the journal's top 10 most read articles of 2018. "Understanding the Relationship Between Medicaid Expansions and Hospital Closures” was led by Richard Lindrooth and co-authored by Marcelo Perraillon, Rose Hardy, and Greg Tung from the Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy.
See the article, “Most-Read Health Affairs Articles of 2018”
January 2019
Judith Albino, professor of community and behavioral health, serves as the project co-director and scientific editor for the Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health with the NIH. The purpose of the report is to document progress in oral health since the last publication in 2000, to find key issues affecting Americans, and to identify challenges and opportunities.
January 2019
Elizabeth Carlton, assistant professor of environmental and occupational health, receives a 5-year, $3.4 million NIH grant to combine epidemiology, ecology, and cutting-edge genomics in the fight against Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease that infects approximately 200 million people globally. Carlton's team includes Katerina Kechris, professor of biostatistics and informatics, Sara Paull, assistant professor of environmental and occupational health, and researchers at the Sichuan Centers for Disease Control in Chengdu, China, and others at University of Texas and CU Anschutz.
January 2019
ColoradoSPH launches a tuition differential pilot scholarship program to increase the enrollment of international students, offering resident tuition rates to international students who have completed 18 credit hours and maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher.
February 2019
Following a national search, Glen Mays, PhD, is named chair of the Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy. Prior to joining the school, Mays was an endowed professor in health management and policy at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. He specializes in preparedness and health systems, policy and economics.
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September 2019
Town hall meetings are held for the school’s 2019-2024 strategic plan and input gathered from students, staff, and faculty. The plan reflects the work of the steering committee and five working groups representing our students, staff, and faculty.
September 2019
Spero Manson, director of the Centers for Native American and Alaska Native Health, is appointed to the National Academy of Medicine's Committee on Developing a Behavioral and Social Science Research Agenda on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias. Manson is also appointed by the Surgeon General to serve as a senior reviewer of the report on the Oral Health of the Nation.
September 2019
Researchers in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health are awarded a $1 million grant from the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to study how per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, “forever chemicals” also called PFAS, affect health. This is the first study of its kind to study this topic in multiple contamination sites and states.
September 13, 2019
Lee Newman, a professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health and founder and director of the Center for Health, Work & Environment, is named a “Distinguished Professor” by the University of Colorado. This title is the highest honor awarded to CU faculty, given for a history of exemplary performance in research or creative works, excellence in classroom teaching and mentoring, and outstanding service to the profession, the university, and its affiliates. Throughout CU’s history, 106 faculty members have been named Distinguished Professors.
September 25, 2019
Glen Mays, professor and chair of the Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy, participates in a keynote panel with U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Annual Meeting and Policy Summit. His research is featured in the Surgeon General's report on "Community Health and Prosperity".
Read the Surgeon General's report on community health and prosperity
October 2019
Russ Glasgow, research professor, and Cathy Bradley, a professor in the Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy, deputy director of the CU Cancer Center, and Associate Dean for Research, receive a $4.2 million grant through the Cancer Moonshot. The grant will focus on assessment and understanding the costs and value of cancer prevention and control activities in rural communities in Colorado.
October 23, 2019
ColoradoSPH drops the GRE requirement for the MPH and DrPH programs in an effort to reduce admissions and application barriers and to promote inclusion.
October 24, 2019
The Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center (RMPRC) is named one of 25 prevention research centers funded by the CDC. The RMPRC will receive more than $3.7 million over the next five years to address the intergenerational transmission of adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, neglect and household dysfunction by working with the school’s long-term partners and community leaders in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
November 7, 2019
Spero Manson, Distinguished Professor and director of the Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health, is awarded the 2019 Carl Taube Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of mental health services research. The award is given by the Mental Health Section of the APHA.
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January 2020
The Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center is re-funded as a designated site in the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN). This designation is accompanied by $1.5 million in funding over the next five years.
January 29, 2020
Dr. Emmy Betz, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and deputy director of the Program for Injury Prevention, Education & Research, and colleagues on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and Grit Digital Health launch Lock to Live—an online tool to help those in crisis reduce their access to firearms and other potentially dangerous items to prevent suicide.
February 2020
The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment's Tobacco Review Committee presents Wendy Morrison, Tracy Doyle, and Erin Bertoli (Policy Technical Assistance and Training Team, Center for Public Health Practice) with an award honoring their work. Since July 2019, the team has provided critical technical assistance and support to local public health grantees. This assistance has contributed to the passage of over 20 local policies to prevent tobacco use and aid in the fight against the youth vaping epidemic.
February 4, 2020
The Department of Epidemiology convenes a panel of campus experts to discuss the novel coronavirus and how concerned Coloradans should be about the virus.
March 2020
An interdisciplinary team of researchers and public health experts from the Colorado School of Public Health, CU School of Medicine, CU Boulder, CU Denver, and Colorado State University form the COVID-19 Modeling Team to develop predictive models. Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment use the reports and models to guide public health decisions in the state.
March 2020
An interdisciplinary team of researchers and public health experts from the Colorado School of Public Health, CU School of Medicine, CU Boulder, CU Denver, and Colorado State University form the COVID-19 Modeling Team to develop predictive models. Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment use the reports and models to guide public health decisions in the state.
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March 2020
ColoradoSPH transitioned to a remote model with students, staff, and faculty working and learning virtually due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19.
March 26, 2020
Gov. Jared Polis asks Colorado State University to organize testing of personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect the state’s healthcare workers from COVID-19. John Volckens, a professor at ColoradoSPH and the head of CSU’s Center for Energy Development and Health, leads the testing efforts, determining if the masks effectively filter out virus particles when fitted properly.
March 27, 2020
The first report of the COVID-19 Modeling Team is released. In a press conference, Gov. Jared Polis discusses the predictive modeling guiding public health decisions and thanks Dean Samet and his team for putting together the modeling data, in partnership with the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment.
April 2020
The Open Philanthropy Project awards May Chu, clinical professor in the Department of Epidemiology, a $250,000 gift to fast-track urgent research related to personal protective equipment for frontline health care workers, including decontamination and safe reuse of face masks and respirators.
May 2020
Dr. Ashley Brooks-Russell, assistant professor in the Department of Community & Behavioral Health is named the director of the Program for Injury Prevention, Education & Research.
May 19, 2020
Dr. Matthew Wynia and colleagues publish an article in the New England Journal of Medicine about COVID-19 crisis triage and how to optimize health outcomes while ensuring and promoting the rights of individuals with disabilities.
July 7, 2020
Dr. Jenn Leiferman, professor, accepts the position of chair of the Department of Community & Behavioral Health.
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July 2020
Dan Pastula, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology is awarded the NCEZID Health Equity Award from the CDC for his work investigating neurologic sequelae of Rocky Mountain spotted fever among Native Americans in Arizona.
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August 26–27, 2020
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosts a two-day workshop planned by Dean Samet and other experts to discuss the rapidly evolving science of COVID-19 airborne transmission.
September 1, 2020
Audrey Hendricks, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Informatics, receives the National Human Genome Research Institute's 2020 Genomic Innovator Award. Audrey will receive more than $1.5 million over the next five years to pursue her research for her work to "Develop efficient methods to improve the use of genetic summary data."
September 2020
Dr. Emmy Betz, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and deputy director of the Program for Injury Prevention, Education & Research, launches new gun injury prevention research after a decades-long restriction on federally-funded research on this topic is lifted.
October 2020
Katerina Kechris, PhD, professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Informatics, is awarded an R01 grant totaling more than $3 million entitled "Multi-Omic Networks Associated with COPD Progression in TOPMed Cohorts." The focus of the project is to develop network-based approaches to study chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by leveraging new NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) resources.
October 2020
Spero Manson, PhD, Distinguished Professor and director of the Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health, is awarded the 2020 Society for Medical Anthropology's Career Achievement Award. Spero provides many contributions to medical anthropological methods and theory through his work with American Indian and Alaska Native populations and is committed to mentoring indigenous scholars in the field of mental health.
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January 2021
The Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center (RMPRC) receives a five-year grant from the Colorado Department of Human Services to conduct obesity prevention programming in Colorado communities. The RMPRC will receive over $2.4 million in the first fiscal year to implement three obesity prevention programs.
February 24, 2022
A new study from ColoradoSPH examines county-level relationships between child maltreatment and adult mental health. Indicating a need for improved access to mental health services, the study found a relationship between the number of poor mental health days and increased child maltreatment report rates in counties.
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February 24, 2022
Each year, the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research tracks annual National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and publishes rankings across schools of health disciplines, including schools of public health. In 2021, ColoradoSPH rose into the top 20 tier of schools, coming in at 18 in the rankings, reflecting an almost $20 million increase in federal funding. This was a large jump from 2020 when the school ranked 23rd with just over $10 million in NIH funding
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September 12, 2022
Doctor of Public Health students Makala Carrington and Shenazar (Shane) Esmundo are among the 19 candidates selected for the prestigious scholarship program focused on equity and social justice.
January 31, 2023
Abrupt closures at public libraries in Boulder, Littleton, Englewood and Arvada due to methamphetamine contamination are a cause for concern, if not alarm. But the initial shock of the local and national headlines needs to be put in the proper context, said Mike Van Dyke, PhD, industrial hygienist and associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and the Center for Work, Health & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health.
March 21, 2023
A collaborative group from Colorado School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH) has been awarded $600,000 from the National Institutes of Health to support the first year of work for the newly-established Mountain West Alliance for Community Engagement-Climate and Health (ACE-CH) Hub, a community of public health researchers and community members working to identify evidence-based and community-driven action in the face of the climate crisis.
April 4, 2023
Research shows a need for doctors, patients and supplement companies to develop new approaches to nutritional health management during pregnancy. A new study by researchers at CU Anschutz shows that 90% of pregnant women do not receive adequate nutrients during pregnancy from food alone and must look to supplements to fill that deficit.
July 21, 2023
“Forever chemicals” are unavoidable and found in everyday consumer products. They have even infiltrated our natural resources, including our drinking water, triggering concern about the dangers they may pose to human health. Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, offers guidance on how to manage your exposure to forever chemicals and what to do if you have high levels of PFAS in your bloo
July 26, 2023
The United States has more than 10 times the number of mass shooting incidents than other developed countries, yet little research has shown the distribution and types of shootings, geographically. CU Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative research provides new visual analysis on recent mass shootings that reveals deeper connections to policy, environmental, and socio-cultural factors.
August 8, 2023
A new study is among the first to examine how COVID-19 vaccinations affect inflammatory markers over time among those recently infected. The researchers assessed blood samples from nearly 900 vaccinated and unvaccinated patients over multiple months to study the impact.
October 2, 2023
As Hollywood portrays fictional fungi, the real Candida auris poses a severe threat to the immunocompromised. The fungus Candida auris is showing up more frequently in high-risk areas such as intensive care units at hospitals, posing a serious risk especially for immunocompromised patients. This fungul blood infection spreads quickly in the immunocompromised, and can kill one in three patients
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February 27, 2024
Colorado School of Public Health receives Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) preliminary reaccreditation.
April 16, 2024
The Colorado School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH) is ranked No. 16 for graduate programs in public health. The rankings were announced publicly on April 9. Previously, ColoradoSPH had been ranked No. 17.
June 1, 2024
Dr. Madiha Abdel-Maksoud, PhD, MD, MSPH, named Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs.
May 21, 2024
Dr. Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, CMO, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, receives the CU Distinguished Service Award.
August, 2024
Dr. Beth Carlton, PhD, MPH is named chair of the Department of Environmental Occupational Health