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Study Finds Virtual Delivery of SafeCare Parenting Program Holds Promise for Preventing Abuse, Neglect

Study Finds Virtual Delivery of SafeCare Parenting Program Holds Promise for Preventing Abuse, Neglect

Social distancing orders in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic forced the evidence-based SafeCare parenting program to transition from in-person delivery in the home to virtual delivery. It also created an opportunity for researchers to assess how virtual delivery affects program outcomes.

In a study that has broad implications for home visitation programs aimed at the prevention of child abuse and neglect, researchers at the Georgia State University School of Public Health found that parents demonstrated positive outcomes regardless of whether they completed the SafeCare program virtually or in person.

Developed in the 1990s by Distinguished University Professor Emeritus John R. Lutzker of the School of Public Health, SafeCare is a behavioral parenting program that teaches skills in positive parent-child interactions, home safety and child health.

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From the Provost: Rodney Lyn Appointed as Dean of the School of Public Health Effective June 1

From the Provost: Rodney Lyn Appointed as Dean of the School of Public Health Effective June 1

Provost Wendy Hensel announced the appointment of Dr. Rodney Lyn as full dean of the School of Public Health, effective June 1.

Dr. Lyn serves as Professor in the school’s Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences and has held several leadership positions prior to becoming Interim Dean in 2019.

Dr. Lyn has led or contributed to funded research grants totaling more than $16 million to advance knowledge in the areas of childhood obesity prevention, school and community health, and the reduction of health disparities.

Read Provost Hensel’s announcement by clicking the story link.

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Georgia State Faculty Join in Research for Answers to Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)/COVID-19

Georgia State Faculty Join in Research for Answers to Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)/COVID-19

Georgia State University faculty have joined the race to unravel how novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) operates and find effective treatments.

Faculty members are attacking the questions from the biomedical standpoint through work by virologists in the university’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences, epidemiological expertise through the School of Public Health, disease detector investigators through the Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, and more.

Read more about how Georgia State is fighting novel coronavirus and the pandemic.

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Georgia State Faculty Member Forecasts Novel Coronavirus Incidents Using Mathematical Epidemiology

Georgia State Faculty Member Forecasts Novel Coronavirus Incidents Using Mathematical Epidemiology

Public Health Professor Gerardo Chowell, a faculty member of the university’s Second Century Initiative (2CI), the predecessor to the Next Generation Program, has been quoted in local media regarding novel coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic and is creating updated coronavirus incidence forecasts.

The site at https://publichealth.gsu.edu/coronavirus/ features 10-day forecasts of the weekly incidence trend of COVID-19 globally. Updated forecasts of Canada, Iran, Italy, Republic of Korea, Spain, and United States cases are published Monday – Friday by 9 p.m. Eastern Time.

He is a professor of mathematical epidemiology and chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Georgia State University School of Public Health.

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School of Public Health Receives $3.15 Million Grant to Enhance Mindfulness-based Smoking Cessation Treatment Using mHealth

School of Public Health Receives $3.15 Million Grant to Enhance Mindfulness-based Smoking Cessation Treatment Using mHealth

Researchers in Georgia State University’s School of Public Health have been awarded a five-year, $3.15 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Cancer Institute to further develop and evaluate a text messaging program to help people quit smoking.

The program, iQuit Mindfully, combines mobile health technology (mHealth) with mindfulness training to provide round-the-clock smoking cessation support for low-income smokers. The study will be led by Claire Spears, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health.

The grant will fund a study to test the effectiveness of personalized and interactive iQuit Mindfully text messages among this demographic compared to in-person mindfulness-based addiction treatment and usual care. The researchers will also investigate the mechanisms through which both methods affect smoking cessation.

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Research Excellence: Social Media Campaigns Spur Growth in a Brand of E-Cigarettes

Research Excellence: Social Media Campaigns Spur Growth in a Brand of E-Cigarettes

Reports that use of electronic cigarettes is declining may not have accounted for explosive growth in sales of the JUUL device, a novel product that has benefited from social media marketing campaigns to reach young consumers, according to a study led by researchers at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health.

Existing surveys and other techniques designed to monitor use of traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes don’t ask specific questions that might capture the use of JUUL and other newer devices, the researchers said in an article in the journal Tobacco Control.

Results of the study are published in an article titled “Vaping versus JUULing: how the extraordinary growth and marketing of JUUL transformed the U.S. retail e-cigarette market.” Dr. Jidong Huang, associate professor of health management and policy at Georgia State, is the lead author.

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