Public & Community Health students travel to Guatemala to aid underserved region
Continuing a four-year effort to screen patients and treat medical issues in the underserved communities of Guatemala, a team of two Liberty University professors and four students from the Department of Public & Community Health spent June 11-22 in the…
Online global health student joins with Samaritan’s Purse to meet the needs of children in Liberia
In her career as an ICU nurse in Illinois, Liberty University Master of Public Health (Global Health) student Alicia (last name withheld) has worked a strenuous schedule. But she has always carved out time to volunteer over the years with…
Graduate students extend research, outreach efforts to Hispanic populations in Guatemala
As part of an ongoing project to test different Hispanic communities for diabetes, hypertension, and other health issues, a team from Liberty University’s Department of Public & Community Health spent the last week of May in Guatemala, conducting health screenings…
Liberty welcomes molecular biologist and former Johns Hopkins administrator as its new dean of the School of Health Sciences
Liberty University has announced Dr. Heidi DiFrancesca as its new dean of the School of Health Sciences. DiFrancesca will officially start her new role in the fall, bringing with her 10 years of experience as both an educator and administrator…
Graduate from Nigeria says she found a second family in Liberty’s public health program
In deciding to pursue her Master of Public Health (MPH) residentially at Liberty University, Olufunmilayo Babarinde (’21) temporarily left much of her life, including her husband and young daughter, behind in her home country of Nigeria in order to answer…
Public health students hold health fair for local underserved Hispanic community
Students from Liberty University’s Department of Public & Community Health gained field experience and provided the local underserved Hispanic population with medical screenings at a health fair on Saturday, April 17, at La Iglesia de las Americas church in Lynchburg,…
Simulation event helps health care students better understand how to serve struggling communities
Students from Liberty University’s public health, allied health, and nursing programs came together on Thursday to encounter a Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS), which walked them through the harsh truths of living in poverty. Transforming the Montview Alumni Ballroom into…
MPH professor named president-elect of American Dental Hygienists’ Association
In 1993, Sharlee Burch started her health education at Liberty University, a school she had fallen in love with as a high-schooler. But 20 years later, she would reconnect with her former college again, this time as a Doctor of Education student…
Public Health graduates join fight against spread of COVID-19
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple alumni of Liberty University’s undergraduate and graduate programs in public health are using their knowledge gained about the spread of infectious diseases and viruses to actively fight real-life cases in the United…