College of Public Health

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

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

Siobhan Wescott, MD, and Kiara Comfort

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).

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.

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 “El Matador” Hernandez and UNMC's Armando De Alba, MD

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.

Podcast explores UNMC’s health security past, future

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, was featured on the latest podcast by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Jun 13, 2022

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD

Student senate provides free menstrual products for UNMC students

Effort to address ‘period poverty’ brings UNMC in line with similar programs at institutions such as Harvard and Yale.

Jun 9, 2022

From left, Benjamin McIntire, Hannah Nelson, Susan Greni and Aubree Ford were among the students who advocated for providing free menstrual products.

A statement on recent gun violence

Wellness resources are available to the UNMC community as the country grapples with latest shooting tragedies.

Jun 2, 2022

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD