August 2022 Silver U Award Recipient: Jihyun Ma

Jihyun Ma, MS, MA has been selected as the recipient of the UNMC College of Public Health August 2022 Silver U Award.

Aug 31, 2022

Jihyun Ma, MS, MA UNMC College of Public Health Department of Biostatistics

College of Public Health faculty mentor students during Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Two College of Public Health (COPH) faculty members mentored students during the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Aug 30, 2022

Three undergrad students were mentored by College of Public Health staff during the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Ethan Sajko (left), Mohammad Salimi (middle) and Gabrielle Estep (right)

COPH faculty member recognized at ag health and safety conference

UNMC College of Public Health Associate Professor Aaron Yoder, PhD was recognized during the annual International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health conference with the ISASH President’s Award.

Aug 18, 2022

13-week ECHO pilot project to improve wellbeing of nurses

A new 13-week pilot project designed to improve wellness, retention, and wellbeing for registered nurses (RNs) and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) has launched at UNMC.

Aug 15, 2022

Krista Brown, Center Manager(left), Deborah Levy (middle) and Keith Hansen (right), Co-Directors for the Center for Biosecurity, Biopreparedness, and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the UNMC College of Public Health

COPH students, staff, faculty invited to annual Welcome Back Gathering

The UNMC College of Public Health is holding its annual Welcome Back Gathering to celebrate students and the start of another school year.

Aug 9, 2022

Harold M. and Beverly Maurer Center for Public Health

Community, Inside UNMC, Outreach

UNMC project launches novel tribal collaboration

As tribes and tribal communities set health education priorities, the UNMC Nebraska HEALING Project will offer expertise and grants up to $4,000.

Aug 2, 2022

Student News

APEx student recognized locally for work on emergency preparedness projects

Online Applied Practice Experience (APEx) student, Elise Lowe, MD, has been recognized in her community for work related to her APEx project.

Jul 21, 2022

First responders participate in an exercise simulating the rescue of a patient in the Shoshone River, Wyoming(left). Elise Lowe, MD (upper right). Patients brought up from Shoshone River, Wyoming during training exercise (lower right).

Inside UNMC

UNMC students participate in UNL Rural Fellows Program

Public health students are embedded in Nebraska communities to help improve health outcomes.

Jul 13, 2022

UNMC Master of Public Health students in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Rural Fellows Program: Grace Mabiala-Maye, MD, Eric Pulver, Arden Kimme and Devi Dwarabandam.

Community, Inside UNMC, Outreach

Soccer star’s visit draws families to vaccination clinic

Mexico’s Luis ‘El Matador’ Hernandez visited Omaha to take part in a UNMC/Nebraska Medicine vaccination event at Omaha South High School.

Jul 8, 2022

From left, Mexican soccer superstar Luis &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;El Matador” Hernandez and UNMC's Armando De Alba, MD

Education, Outreach

UNMC and Nebraska Medicine receive $7 million to address diabetes across state

UNMC and Nebraska Medicine are launching a new statewide program with aims to lower the state’s rate of uncontrolled diabetes cases and to reduce the rate of diabetes progression among those who are prediabetic, especially in rural communities.

Jun 15, 2022

Susan Burbach, right, a clinical research nurse coordinator in the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine Division of Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolism, shares how to properly administer diabetes medication.