In the School of Public Health, you can find experts on many different aspects of public health from tobacco cessation to health care disparities to brain cancer. Below is a sample listing of topics.
Disasters and the public health response
- Bioterrorism
- Disease outbreaks
- Natural disasters
Education and training
- Public health workforce training
- Public health students
Environment and health
- Fruits and berries affecting oral cancers
- Nutrition and breast cancer
- Environmental toxins
- Farm injuries in children
- Over-the-counter pain drugs preventing cancer
Culture, ethnicity and public health
- Religious black youth and healthy choices
- Chinese-American smokers
- Amish vs. non-Amish lifestyles
- Drug-selling among high school students
- Cancer screening messages to African-Americans
- African-American girls and perceived body size
- Women living in Appalachian Ohio get cervical cancer more often than other Ohio women. They die from it at higher rates than other Ohio women as well.
- Access to health care
- Insurance coverage in underserved populations
- Medicaid and Medicare
- Mental health policy
Health services and management
- Leadership in health care
- Nursing culture
- Physicians’ use of computers
- Long-term care
Healthy behaviors
- Alcohol and tobacco in pregnancy
- Lead poisoning prevention programs
- Anti-tobacco programs for youth
- Obesity-related topics?
Health communication
- Cancer screening messages to African-Americans
- Cancer screening messages in popular magazines (many breast cancer screening articles, few on colon and prostate cancers)
- Communicating risk to the public
- Health messages via the beauty salon
- Racial disparities in colon cancer
Health statistics
- Lifting and low-back pain
- Gender differences in musculoskeletal disorders
- Data collection and analysis … meaningful ways to use statistics in representing health information
- Counting flies: how many flies is too many around an egg farm?
- Which is worse: smoking or obesity?
Causes, distribution, and control of cancer
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) preventing cancer
- Postmenopausal women and colorectal cancer
- High-dose fish oil capsules and cancer
- Cancer screening
- Eating red meat and colorectal cancer
- How to increase mammography screening
- Allergies and brain cancer
- Predicting brain cancer from other illnesses
