Tulane Public Health Presentations at APHA 2013

This year at the American Public Health Association (APHA) meeting (November 2-6, 2013), many Tulane students have been selected to give oral and poster presentations by APHA.

Students selected by APHA to exhibit posters:

Meghan Althoff, MD/PhD student in EPID: "A Comparison of the Sex Networks of Drug Using and Non-Drug Using Latino Migrant Workers"

Lori Anderson, PhD student in GCHB: "Gender Differences and Determinants of Obesity in Egypt"

Susannah Anderson, PhD student in GCHB: "Stigma, Mental Health, and CD4 Count Among Young HIV-Positive Women"

Nicole Burton, PhD student in EPID: "A Comparison of the Sex Networks of Drug Using and Non-Drug Using Latino Migrant Workers"

Edward "Cannon" Ledford, PhD student in GCHB: "Gender Differences and Determinants of Obesity in Egypt"

Jaffer Shariff, Masters student in EPID: "Healthy Stores: The 4Ps of Food, Alcohol, and Tobacco in New Orleans, La."

Students selected by APHA to give oral presentations:

Gwen Biggerstaff, GHSD, Executive Doc. Program: "Foodborne diseases centers for outbreak response enhancement (FoodCORE)- year two of identifying and addressing gaps in state and local health departments response capacity"

Sarah Donahue, Masters student in GCHB: "Linkage and Retention in HIV Care: Lessons Learned from the Louisiana Positive Change Access to Care Initiative"

Kendra LeSar, PhD student in GCHB: "Developing a Comprehensive School Wellness Policy as Part of a Coordinated School Health Program" & "Implementing Sexual Health Education Policies and Programs in Challenging Environments"

Keelia O'Malley, PhD student in GCHB: "Using multiple methods to examine the association between food access, food purchasing and consumption patterns of New Orleans residents"

Jaffer Shariff, Masters student in EPID: "Evaluating a new school food authority in New Orleans: Implications for school-based nutrition"

If you're in Boston for the meeting, don't forget to stop by Tulane's reception on Monday evening!

Featured Public Health Publication: Lead Author Wenjie Sun

The article Are Depressive Symptoms Associated with Cardiovascular Mortality Among Older Chinese: A Cohort Study of 64,000 in Hong Kong? will be published in the November edition of The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. The lead author, Wenjie Sun, is a post-doctoral associate in  Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine's Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences.

While the print version appears in November, the e-pub ahead of print is now available through PubMed. To find this article through the Matas Library website, select the PubMed@TU tab on our homepage, enter the article's PMID: 23567371, and click on the green TULink icon in PubMed.

For more information about the study, check out Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine's press release here.

National Health Education Week: Health Educators and the ACA

The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) celebrates National Health Education Week during the 3rd week of October. This year's theme is "The Role of Health Education Specialists in Implementing the Affordable Care Act."

Check out SOPHE's National Health Education Week's website at https://www.sophe.org/nhew.cfm.

New Book: Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd series: Neuroparasitology and Tropical Neurology

Here at the Matas Library, we are continually expanding our collection. One of our new titles for the month of October is the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd series: Neuroparasitology and Tropical Neurology.

Check out this and our other new titles on the book truck in the Matas Commons area.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Diabetes & CV Risk Reduction; Newborn Screening

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for October 16th: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction are now available:http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4261138

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for October 17th: Newborn Screening: Update and Case Studies are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519354

Bake Sale for Matas Library Heart Walk Team

On Thursday, October 17th, the Matas Library will be holding a bake sale to raise money for our Heart Walk Team. We will have a selection of items- some heart-healthy and some not-so-heart-healthy (but delicious!).

We are also accepting donations at the Circulation Desk in exchange for candy or satsumas, a local citrus fruit. Any donation helps, even a quarter.

The New Orleans Heart Walk will take place on Saturday, November 2nd at LaSalle Park near Zephyr Field in Metairie, LA. Check out www.neworleansheartwalk.org for more information.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: PTSD in Early Childhood; Current Controversies in Transfusion Medicine

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for October 9th: Current Controversies in Transfusion Medicine are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4261138

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for October 10th:Trauma and PTSD in Early Childhood: Implications for Pediatricians are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519354

Matas Library services impacted by the lapse in government funding - NLM is not supplying interlibrary loans.

The Interlibrary Loan system used by the Matas Library, DOCLINE, remains available at this time.   Unfortunately, materials that we would usually receive from the National Library of Medicine, such as foreign language journals and other unique materials only available in the National Libary of Medicine collections will not be available to our users until the NLM departments are staffed.   

PubMed has been designated to be maintained with minimal staff during the lapse in government funding.  The information on the PubMed website will be kept as up to date as possible, and the agency will attempt to respond to urgent operational inquiries during this period.

Due to the lapse in government funding, the National Library of Medicine will be closed until appropriations are enacted. Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at http://usa.gov

Vanderbilt has compiled a list of frequently used federal online resources in the health sciences affected by the government shutdown, including AHRQ, CDC, NCBI databases and PubMed. These resources are working, but will not be updated until funding is enacted.

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/news/2013/10/federal-resources-affected-by-government-shutdown/


http://eric.ed.gov/ (ERIC in EBSCOhost is available)


census.gov sites, services, and all online survey collection requests will be unavailable until further notice. 
http://www.census.gov/

National Archives http://www.archives.gov/

Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/

More info here: http://alisha764.com/2013/09/30/potential-government-shut-down-leaves-librarians-scrambling-for-information/

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. NBCAM is a collaborative effort among public health service organizations, professional medical associations, and government agencies to help increase awareness of breast cancer, to share information about the disease, and to increase access to services. More information can be found at: http://www.nbcam.org/.

Additional evidence-based resources on breast cancer can be found in PubMed. Check for the TU Link in the upper right hand corner of the screen to link to full-text articles.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month- Recommendations Statement for Screening Patients from the USPSTF

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The US Preventive Services Task Force has released a Recommendations Statement on screening patients for domestic violence. The statement can be accessed at: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf12/ipvelder/ipvelderfinalrs.htm.

Additional evidence-based resources can  be found in PubMed. Check for the TU Link in the upper right hand corner of the screen to link to full-text articles.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: 50 years of dietary research; eosinophilic esophagitis in children

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for October 2nd: Dietary Research in the Last 50 Years: How to Translate the Evidence Into Practice are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4261138

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for October 3rd: An emerging entity in children: eosinophilic esophagitis are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519354

Online Federal Resources Affected by Government Shutdown

Vanderbilt has compiled a list of frequently used federal online resources in the health sciences affected by the government shutdown, including AHRQ, CDC, NCBI databases and PubMed. These resources are working, but will not be updated until funding is enacted.

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/news/2013/10/federal-resources-affected-by-government-shutdown/


In addition, the following sites are unavailable during the shutdown:

http://eric.ed.gov/ (ERIC will still work in Ebsco but full text access may be affected)

http://www.census.gov/

National Archives http://www.archives.gov/

Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/

More info here: http://alisha764.com/2013/09/30/potential-government-shut-down-leaves-librarians-scrambling-for-information/