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UK faculty, community partners present at NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Network Meeting

Mar 13, 2024, 7:08 AM

Faculty members presented at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Network Meeting in Durham, N.C. last month.

Uncovering patterns: KIPRC's examination of suicide risk among Kentucky veterans

Mar 1, 2024, 7:35 AM

Researchers with the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), housed in the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, are examining suicide risk among Kentucky veterans.

UK's East Palestine Health Tracking Study receives NIEHS award to expand ongoing research

Feb 21, 2024, 7:20 AM

As announced by the White House on Feb. 16, the study, under the leadership of Erin Haynes, Dr.P.H., received new funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

2024 John P. Wyatt, M.D. Environment and Health Symposium

Apr 4, 2024, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

The John P. Wyatt, M.D. Environment & Health Symposium honors the legacy of Dr. John P. Wyatt and his pioneering environmental clinical research on air pollution and lung pathology. Universities and agencies from across the state have partnered to present research and practice on environment and its impacts on health with specific emphasis on Kentucky. Keynote speaker, Arthur Frank, MD, PhD will speak on Minerals, Plants, and Policy: Coal and Asbestos, Agriculture Work, and Policy Implications including Legal Activities.

KIPRC develops detection map for responding to unusual overdose spikes

Feb 2, 2024, 7:28 AM

An unusual spike in drug overdoses in Lexington, recently has spurred the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department to advise people, especially those with substance use disorder or those connected to someone with it, to carry naloxone.

UK scientists and scholars among top 2% of world’s most-cited researchers

Dec 12, 2023, 5:02 PM

The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world.

Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center awarded CDC grant to strengthen overdose prevention efforts

Nov 29, 2023, 7:51 AM

The grant, in collaboration with the Kentucky Department for Public Health, provides opportunities to strengthen ongoing efforts to combat Kentucky’s drug overdose crisis and reduce overdose-related harms.

UNITE predoctoral program welcomes 21 students

Nov 2, 2023, 10:47 AM

The UNited In True Equity Research Priority Area (UNITE RPA) welcomed this year’s cohort of 21 graduate students to the UNITE Predoctoral Research Enhancement Program.

Preparing a Manuscript for Submission to a Journal

Nov 7, 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Submitting a manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal used to be a relatively trivial (if daunting) task. With the universal adoption of online submission systems, however, many journals have ramped up their expectations concerning formatting and packaging text, tables, and figures and providing manuscript and author metadata. Steve Claas of the Office of Scientific Writing will walk us through the steps of submitting a manuscript and provide a helpful manuscript prep checklist so your next submission can be completed quickly, efficiently, and (mostly) painlessly.

UK awarded $3.4 million to lead equity initiative in drug abuse research

Oct 11, 2023, 7:15 AM

The University of Kentucky has been selected as the nationwide coordination center for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, supported by a $3.4 million, five-year grant.

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