December 6th, 2021
A Weekly Newsletter for all University of Kentucky College of Public Health faculty, staff, and health champions!
News and Success Stories
Our own Health, Management, and Policy Associate Clinical Professor, Dr. Keith Knapp, will be a panelist at The Kentucky Enduring Education & Care Network for Collaborative Dementia Care's (KEEN-CDC) "Adopting LTC Best Practices & Addressing CMS Deficiencies" on Tuesday, December 7, 2021.
Shoulder to Shoulder Global is still accepting applications for the 2022 brigades to Santo Domingo, Ecuador, until December 31st, 2021.

Participants engage in a variety of cultural and service-learning opportunities while providing services such as basic medical and dental care, health education, school health screenings, women’s health, home visits and community-based learning.
University of Kentucky College of Education professor John Thelin’s book “Essential Documents in the History of Higher Education,” 2nd edition, made Forbes’ list of Best Higher Education Books of 2021.

Our own, Jillian Faith, Senior Alumni Coordinator, transcribed the documents for Dr. Thelin and wrote a third of the chapter introductions!
Dr. Svetla Slavova Graduates from the UK Chairs' Academy
Congratulations to Dr. Svetla Slavova, Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and a faculty researcher in the Kentucky Injury and Prevention Center (KIPRC), on her recent graduation of the 2021 University of Kentucky Chairs' Academy which encourages UK faculty to pursue leadership career paths.
The UKPA Class of 2023 recently won the KAPA Challenge Bowl, a medical knowledge recall competition held at the Kentucky Academy of Physician Assistants CME symposium each year. One of the runners-up in the challenge of 15 teams was our own Dakota Halbert, alum and Experiential Education Coordinator in SEAS!
UK College of Public Health alumna, Virginia L. Valentin, DrPh, PA-C, began her career in healthcare when she was hired as a nurse’s assistant at 16. She has been recently named chair and director of the Physician Assistant Studies department in the University of Kentucky’s College of Health Sciences.
Center for Innovation in Population Health (IPH)

The state of Oregon Department of Human Services is one of dozens from states and other jurisdictions signing onto the National Partnership for Child Safety. NPCS brings a public health and safety science approach to reducing child abuse and neglect.

Our own Mike Cull, IPH Center Associate Director, recently participated in an interview with Jefferson Public Radio, the NPR affiliate for Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Kentucky Injury and Prevention Center (KIPRC)

As public health surveillance works to increase the timeliness of data, specifically to identify changes in trends and to inform intervention strategies much closer to real time, researchers from the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) and the University of Kentucky looked at two new data sources for rapid drug overdose surveillance — emergency medical services (EMS) and syndromic surveillance.
Research and Publications
UKNow Stories