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College of Public Health honored for community service

College receives the Harrison C. Spencer Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

May 6, 2020

Public health student Na-Omi Hassane Dan Karami, in green T-shirt, interprets for a French speaking family at the Fall Refugee Health Fair held Nov. 2, 2019 at Benson High School. Na-Omi worked as a navigator during the health fair as part of the UNMC College of Public Health student-led Bridge to Care program, which is one of the many community service activities that led to the recognition by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

Dr. Gundry to research heart health related to COVID-19

Rebekah Gundry, Ph.D., was one of only 12 investigators nationwide to receive rapid response research funding from the American Heart Association.

May 6, 2020

Rebekah Gundry, Ph.D.

UNMC students help in med center mask effort

Program already has produced thousands of masks for use at the medical center.

May 6, 2020

From left, the Integrated Service Center's Kathy Hamill, Jaidyn Dalzell, Tina Frey, Pamela Housard and Jonathan Hall

Nebraska health care workers called to join HERO Registry

PCORnet® study will use registry to answer questions about the impact of novel coronavirus on health care workers’ lives.

May 5, 2020

James McClay, M.D., UNMC site investigator for PCORnet

COVID-19 resources

Find education resources, travel guidelines and answers to coronavirus questions.

May 4, 2020

Dr. Davies named to AAP team on COVID-19 procedures

The initiative is called “AAP COVID-19 ECHO: Emergency Readiness & Response.”

May 1, 2020

Dele Davies, M.D.

Children’s Dental Day draws big (healthy) smiles

March event a rewarding experience for 218 Nebraska children and College of Dentistry students, faculty and staff.

May 1, 2020

A patient receives much-needed dental care from UNMC College of Dentistry students.

Six locations across Nebraska now decontaminating PPE

Method developed at UNMC combats a shortage of one-use N95 respirators.

May 1, 2020

UNMC/Nebraska Medicine developed a safe and effective method to use ultraviolet light to decontaminate N95 respirators.

UNMC experts develop COVID-19 guidelines for meat processing facilities

Team toured 10 facilities across state to develop ‘playbook.’

May 1, 2020

From left, Jocelyn Herstein, Ph.D., infectious disease expert for the Global Center for Health Security, and Shelly Schwedhelm, executive director of emergency management and biopreparedness for Nebraska Medicine and executive director of emergency management for the Global Center for Health Security at UNMC, was part of a team of experts that toured 10 meatpacking plants over the past two weeks to provide technical assistance and further develop guidelines to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 while the facilities continue to operate.

Trial shows remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19

UNMC/Nebraska Medicine was first study site for NIH clinical trial.

Apr 30, 2020

Andre Kalil, M.D.