Emergency medical service (EMS) workers face triple the risk for significant mental health problems such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder compared to the general population, according to a recently published study by researchers from Syracuse University...

A transfer student majoring in psychology discovers her passion for counseling people who misuse substances through a minor in Addiction Studies. Not everyone has the patience to work with adolescents who are dealing with unhealthy substance use, but Alisamarie Yiatras ’21 embraces this work…

The latest edition of the Healthy You newsmagazine created by students for students is now available. Created by students in PHP 227–Healthy You Practicum taught by Professor Luvenia Cowart, the publication encourages healthy behaviors on the Syracuse University campus and beyond. The Fall 2020 edition includes wide-ranging news stories, from how to maintain a healthy routine during the COVID-19…

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to escalate this past spring, graduate students in a Falk College applied epidemiology class hosted a public forum for the campus community. According to public health graduate student, Tim Bryant, when Professor David Larsen asked if students had questions regarding the virus, “it proceeded to be a 20-minute question and answer session. I made a statement that if we…

Syracuse-based team of scientists targets novel coronavirus with an early warning system to help communities prepare for potential outbreaks. David Larsen, associate professor of public health at Falk College (pictured here in his office), sees wastewater surveillance as a way to monitor potential COVID-19 outbreaks at the local level. When epidemiologist David Larsen learned last spring that scie…

Game-changing approach will help inform decision-making, protect public health in Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse. The New York State Department of Health has selected the SARS-CoV-2 Early Warning Wastewater Surveillance Platform (SARS2-EWSP) to pilot a statewide coronavirus

Syracuse University’s Falk College is pleased to welcome four new staff members who have joined Falk College in the past academic year: Donna Fecteau, Administrative Assistant in the Department of Exercise Science; Julia Fuqua, Office Coordinator in the Department of Exercise Science; Heather Mauro, Internship Placement Coordinator in the School of Social Work, and; Melissa Tobin, Counselor, Acade…

Falk College is proud to announce Amelia Dome and Gursimar Singh are among 35 students named 2020-21 Remembrance Scholars. Singh, who is studying public health, is inspired by who the Remembrance Scholars represent. She feels it’s an honor and a responsibility to build on the legacy of the Remembrance Scholars who came before her. “They personify the type of role model who cares about the greater…

Falk faculty members Brooks Gump, Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health and Professor Kevin Heffernan, director of the Human Performance Laboratory, co-authored an op-ed that appears in U.S. News & World Report that explores a new anomaly with the rise in COVID-19 cases - namely, a concurrent decline in the number of hospital admissions for heart attacks and other cardiac events. They cite a number of possible explanations for this drop while helping readers understand the etiology of both cardiovascular disease and, separately, cardiac events.

The Falk Student Research Celebration is an annual event that takes place to highlight undergraduate and graduate student research projects Students submit posters for display and are judged by a committee of faculty, staff, and peers. Participants compete for educational funds to present their posters on a larger stage, to attend a conference to gain further insights into their respective fields,…