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Looking Back to See Forward - Dr. Nic John Ramos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My mother, despite her college degree, could not get the job she was qualified for in the hospital that she worked in for more than 15 years.” We live in a society where you have to work to stay healthy, which means that it’s easy to lose or not have healthcare when you don’t have a job, or you get sick.”

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Dr. Roberta Waite

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She recently served as an expert for Governor Tom Wolf’s Think Tank to develop guidelines and benchmarks for a Trauma Informed Commonwealth of PA.

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Dismantling Global Injustices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For as long as he can remember, Dr. Brendan Skip Mark has been focused on trying to understand what it would take to eradicate worldwide poverty and some of the other social ills that impact society. He had worked as a cook in restaurants since he was 15 and figured he would simply get a full-time job in the hospitality industry. “I

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Journal of Public Health defines public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.” Pendley notes that someone with an MPH can run a health department or a hospital.

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Alabama's IVF Ruling Impacts Patients and Med Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a result of the ruling, the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB), the largest hospital in the state, and other regional clinics put their IVF treatments on pause. Sean Tipton, chief advocacy and policy officer for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, called the ruling and its impact on patients “devastating.”

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Dismantling Global Injustices - Dr. Brendan Skip Mark

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For as long as he can remember, Dr. Brendan Skip Mark has been focused on trying to understand what it would take to eradicate worldwide poverty and some of the other social ills that impact society. He had worked as a cook in restaurants since he was 15 and figured he would simply get a full-time job in the hospitality industry. “I

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Teresa Gao named 2024 Mitchell Scholar

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Completely self-taught on the viola, Gao earned a highly competitive seat in the MIT Chamber Music Society. She hosts an educational radio show, “Psycholochat: Where Neuroscience Meets Philosophy,” on the MIT campus radio station WMBR 88.1 FM, where she investigates topics in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy.