May 20, 2013
A growing generational disconnect between adults and children is putting thousands of years of cultural tradition and culinary knowledge in southern Arizona in jeopardy, according to a recent study by a researcher in the College of Public Health. The impact of this "knowledge gap" could help to explain the rise of childhood obesity, Type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Native...
March 6, 2013
The most recent cooperation between the University of Zagreb School of Medicine and the University of Georgia Health Sciences Campus and College of Public Health consisted of joint participation in a conference, including lectures from world renowned experts on health topics.
Dr. Barbara Schuster, UGA Health Sciences Campus Dean, gave a lecture titled "Active Learning: The Medical...
February 4, 2013
A growing generational disconnect between adults and children is putting thousands of years of cultural tradition and culinary knowledge in southern Arizona in jeopardy, according to a recent study by a researcher in the University of Georgia College of Public Health. The impact of this “knowledge gap” could help to explain the rise of childhood obesity, Type II diabetes and cardiovascular...
December 1, 2012
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November 12, 2012
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Croatia has a long history in public health. It started quarantining ships in the 1300s after recognizing the relationship between new arrivals and disease outbreaks. Now those centuries of innovation are being shared with University students and staff.
Doctors and researchers from the University of Zagreb, Croatia joined members of the University’s...
October 17, 2012
Injury prevention, occupational health, evidence-based medicine, reproduction and fertility and violence prevention are just a few of the common global health issues to be tackled by researchers, healthcare providers and policymakers from the U.S. and Croatia at the fifth annual Global Health Symposium to be held Nov. 7 at the University of Georgia.
The conference, titled “International...
August 27, 2012
Students at the University of Haifa and the University of Georgia recently participated in the same course in comparative health systems, saw each other and interacted in real time – even though they were thousands of kilometers away.
The new and specially designed transatlantic course via videoconferencing brought about a new experience for the students.
“I feel like...
June 22, 2012
"A growing number of countries are adopting India's intellectual property regulations, which give enough flexibility to local companies to produce generic versions of popular drugs to safeguard public health," India's Economic Times reports, noting, "In March, India issued the country's first compulsory license, allowing [Natco Pharma] to legally manufacture and sell a low-cost version...
