Tulane dietetic interns gain insightful skills in nutrition and community-based programs
Education & Engagement
Published: December 18, 2018
This fall, 20 Tulane Dietetic Internship students gained first-hand research and health promotion experience in partnership with Tulane Prevention Research Center and local community organizations. The Dietetic Internship is a 10-month long, non-degree program offered at Tulane University that focuses on community health best practices, health promotion, and disease prevention for students seeking to become registered dieticians. As part of the Dietetic Internship, students completed a rotation with the Tulane PRC. During this time, students…
Students gain research experience with Movin' for LIFE at the Tulane PRC
Core Research
Published: October 25, 2018
Tulane students are getting first-hand experience in conducting community-engaged research through Movin’ for LIFE (Lasting Improvements for Fitness and Energy), a five-year project led by the Tulane Prevention Research Center. The project is moving into its last year, and this fall students are conducting final assessments to determine whether Movin’ for LIFE has made an impact in New Orleans’ Upper and Lower 9th Ward communities. “Our student team is invaluable to this phase,” said Movin’…
New Orleans community health assessment supported by Tulane PRC practicum intern
Education & Engagement
Published: October 24, 2018
While interning with the New Orleans Health Department this summer, one Tulane student discovered that best practices in disease prevention and health improvement are often a community affair. Jack Healy, a graduate student studying epidemiology at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, supported the second New Orleans Community Health Assessment during his practicum internship this summer. Being an integral part of the department’s work to identify and address the city’s most pressing health…
Message from the Director
Education & Engagement
Published: October 23, 2018
I just realized that we really don’t talk enough about the caliber of students who participate as interns in the Tulane PRC Health Promotion Practicum Program. Yes, we do an e-newsletter story on students who have accomplished something interesting and/or noteworthy during their practicum responsibility. Sometimes these stories even make it into Tulane University’s campus-wide news outlet, now called Tulane Today. But I don’t think we talk enough about ALL of our master’s level students…
Tulane PRC presentations at APHA 2018
Core Research , Education & Engagement
Published: October 23, 2018
The role of public spaces for physical activity and strategies for disseminating health promotion resources are among the topics that will be presented by Tulane Prevention Research Center (PRC) faculty, staff and students at the upcoming American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting. The meeting, held Nov. 10-14 in San Diego, Ca., will draw more than 12,000 public health professionals, community members, researchers, and advocates from across the country and world. The Tulane PRC will present…
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Team Spotlight: Graduate Student Office Assistants
Education & Engagement
Published: October 23, 2018
Meet the newest members of the Tulane Prevention Research Center’s team. Our Graduate Student Office Assistants provide critical support to the center’s work. The fall 2018 cohort of assistants include: Kaitlin Gibson, Precious Nwajei, Colette Maser, Maggie Heidepriem, Emma Ortega, Gabriella St. Angelo, and Naomi Suematsu. Click here to read their bios on Our Team page.
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Tulane PRC's Health Promotion Practicum - Students Apply Now!
Education & Engagement
Published: October 22, 2018
The Tulane Prevention Research Center is offering six competitive practicum internships that provide students with real-life experience in the field of health promotion working with selected partners of the Tulane PRC. The practicum program is limited to Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine students. Preference is given to graduate-level students who have not yet completed a practicum, but practica have been awarded to exceptional undergraduate students in the past. The practicum hosts are…
Seminars to feature intersections of health, racism, and communication
Education & Engagement
Published: September 04, 2018
A three-part series of public seminars at Tulane is teaching attendees how to communicate about the influence of racism on health by featuring prominent local leaders. “We hope attendees will learn new ways of addressing racism in their work by hearing from leaders working in different settings to further people’s health,” said Shokufeh Ramirez, Assistant Director of the Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (CEMCH). “The effects of racism are pervasive and,…
Walk Bike Places international conference features Tulane PRC mobile workshops
Physical Activity Research
Published: September 01, 2018
In September, more than 1,000 professionals and advocates of walking, biking, and place-based improvements will visit New Orleans for the international conference Walk Bike Places. The Tulane Prevention Research Center will participate in the meeting by leading two morning bike-tour mobile workshops: Monday, Sept. 17, 2018: Neighborhood Storytelling Projects of New Orleans Bike Tour, featuring the Tulane PRC’s community-based health promotion program Movin’ for LIFE Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018: New Orleans Healthy Food Retail Bike…
Tulane alum takes helm of international food and cooking education nonprofit
Education & Engagement
Published: September 01, 2018
Recent Tulane graduate Robert Palestina has his sights set on taking The Cookbook Project, an international nonprofit based in New Orleans, to the next level. Palestina, Tulane SPHTM ’18, took over as executive director this summer, after completing a 300-hour internship with the nonprofit in 2017. The internship was facilitated by the Tulane Prevention Research Center’s Health Promotion Practicum Program, which matches community partners with public health interns. One of his responsibilities was helping the…
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Team Spotlight
Education & Engagement
Published: September 01, 2018
We had a productive summer thanks to our two outstanding graduate research assistants Emily Szklarski and Rosemary Kovacic. Emily Szklarski (pictured left) joined our staff in March 2018 as our Graduate Communications Research Assistant to work on our e-newsletters – Fitting New Orleans and Healthscaping – as well as maintaining our social media accounts and communications locally and nationally. This summer Emily collaborated with the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s Nutrition Section…
Resilience-building is transferable in communities after a disaster
Education & Engagement
Published: June 30, 2018
Many recent high profile natural disasters have increased the urgency of need for successful examples of how to address behavioral health concerns in recovering communities. That’s exactly what a diverse team of community health researchers recently examined in Case Study of Resilient Baton Rouge: Applying Depression Collaborative Care and Community Planning to Disaster Recovery. The article, e-published in the June issue of International Journal of Environmental and Public Health illustrates how in the context of…
Message from the Director
Core Research , Education & Engagement
Published: June 30, 2018
By September 30th of this year, we will begin the final year of funding for the Tulane Prevention Research Center (PRC) in this 5-year cycle. It is difficult to believe that so much time has gone by so fast. It seems like just yesterday that all of the PRC faculty and staff were frantically involved in the preparation of the grant proposal for funding for the current cycle. We have done so much and made…
NOLA LEADs finds positive results from citizen-training program
Education & Engagement , Special Interest Projects (SIPs)
Published: April 10, 2018
Anyone can be a health leader and improve their community, if given the right tools and skills. That’s what the Tulane Prevention Research Center’s two-year NOLA LEADs (Leadership Education & Action on health Disparities) citizen-training project has found since completing its work. Keeping with the project’s goal of helping all who are concerned about improving the lives of their neighbors and the conditions of their communities, the team has put together a one-page summary to…
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Team Spotlight
Education & Engagement
Published: April 01, 2018
This newsletter’s team spotlight features four graduating student research assistants who supported numerous Tulane Prevention Research Center (PRC) projects and programs over the past year. Through one-on-one training and mentorship, these master’s students have worked diligently to apply the skills, knowledge, frameworks and strategies learned in classes to the community-based work of the PRC. “These students have worked diligently on community projects, and we are very proud of them,” said Tulane PRC Director Carolyn Johnson.…
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Upcoming seminar shares innovative, peer-led diabetes prevention
Education & Engagement
Published: April 01, 2018
Please join the Tulane Prevention Research Center on Wednesday, April 11, for the Spring 2018 Innovations in Public Health Research and Practice Seminar: “Prevention of Diabetes in India: What evidence is there for scale-up?” Light refreshments will be provided. This seminar is free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 11, 2018, from 12-1:30 p.m. in the Diboll Auditorium, 1st Floor, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans Featuring…
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To track impact, Tulane PRC relaunches toolkits online
Education & Engagement
Published: February 07, 2018
Acquiring information is a first step to helping communities become healthier, and the Tulane Prevention Research Center is relaunching three of its most recent toolkit publications to re-invigorate interest and track the impact these materials may have with the community. Since its inception in 1998, the Tulane PRC has created an excellent library of educational and scientific materials – from reports to research briefs to articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals – and has posted them…
Spring seminars focus on health, racism, communication
Education & Engagement
Published: February 07, 2018
SAVE THE DATES! Three public seminars at Tulane University’s downtown campus this spring will feature local and national health leaders and their work related to addressing health disparities and systemic racism by focusing on a variety of communication strategies. For 10 years, the Tulane Prevention Research Center and the Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health have partnered to host a seminar series on communication skills meant to enhance traditional public health education…
Public health innovations take stage at upcoming trainings
Education & Engagement
Published: February 07, 2018
SAVE THE DATES! Please join the Tulane Prevention Research Center for two seminars in the Spring 2018 Innovations in Public Health Research and Practice Series: “Food Choices and the Environment: The Carbon Footprint of Our Diets” Thursday, March 8, 2018 from 12-1:30 p.m., Room 1206, 12th Floor, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans LA 70112 Featuring: Diego Rose, PhD, MPH, Director of the Nutrition & Food Security Program,…
Studying nutrition gives students at Tulane PRC skills in community programs
Education & Engagement
Published: February 07, 2018
A class of Tulane dietetic interns who are training to be Registered Dietitians, did a one-week rotation with the Tulane Prevention Research Center in fall 2017. While at the Tulane PRC, the 20 students created five single nutrition education workshops. The students not only designed the didactic information, activities and evaluation of the workshops but facilitated the workshops as well. The information in the workshops had to be evidence-based, but also relevant, engaging and interactive.…
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