Announcements:

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Louisiana has the highest colorectal cancer death rate in the United States. For information on Awareness Press Conference, click here. Wear BLUE on Friday to show your support for colorectal awareness.

Read about ways public health is core to the country of Haiti and the Haitian people.  The Association of School of Public Health's Friday Letter this week features the response from schools of public health around the country and reputable organizations involved in the response.  http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?Page=1141

Find Lauren Cole's article, Septicemia Louisiana, 1999 to 2007 in the September/October 2009 issue of the Louisiana Morbidity Report.  Ms. Cole is a master of public health candidate in epidemiology.  She conducted her work for the article as part of her practice placement with the Louisiana Office of Public Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology section. The article can be found here.

First issue of the LSUHSC School of Public Health newsletter can be found here.

Elizabeth T.H. Fontham, Dr PH Dean, LSUHSC School of Public Health

You can change the world with a MPH degree

Why choose a career in public health? (read more)

Prevention begins here (read more)

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