Although members of the MPH Class of 2016 have very different backgrounds, they all share a common interest in improving health care delivery and in using research to change how people experience health care on a broad-based level.
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The Dartmouth Institute to Launch Online Master of Public Health Degree Program
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice is launching an online Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program in the fall of 2016. The two-year program will include three, one-week residential periods per year ─ making it a more integrated “hybrid” version of the Institute’s existing residential program.
U.S. Spends More on Cancer Care, Saves Fewer Lives than Western Europe
Despite sharp increases in spending on cancer treatment, cancer mortality rates in the United States have decreased only modestly since 1970, Samir Soneji, PhD of Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice has found.
Baby formula poses higher arsenic risk to newborns than breast milk, Dartmouth study shows
In the first U.S. study of urinary arsenic in babies, Dartmouth researchers found that formula-fed infants had higher arsenic levels than breast-fed infants, and that breast milk itself contained very low arsenic concentrations.
A Champion for Health-Care Equity
Lila May Walkden Flounders’ support of the Koop Institute was inspired by Dr. C. Everett Koop’s willingness to take on big challenges and confront powerful interests as Surgeon General in the 1980s.
Susanne Tanski on the Risks of E-Cigarettes
On June 18, Susanne Tanski, MD, an associate professor of pediatrics at Geisel and a pediatrician, testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about the risks of e-cigarettes.
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- Psychiatry Grand Rounds April 19, 2024
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- Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series - Rong Li, Ph.D. April 22, 2024
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- Preventing Overdiagnosis Webinar: Why cancer is our most feared disease. April 25, 2024
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