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• Georgia Southern Examines Black Mobility on Tybee Island
• Georgia Southern Identifies Factors for Sickle Cell Carrier Screening Among African Americans

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• JPHCOPH Students Present at The Eagle Showcase: Excellence in Service-Learning

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• Georgia Southern Examines Global and Rural Child Public Health

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• Georgia Southern Professor Selected a Governor’s Teaching Fellow

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• East Carolina, Georgia Southern Examine Tobacco Policies, Alcohol Sponsorship at LGBT Pride Festivals

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• Georgia Southern Examines Physician Attitudes

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• Georgia Southern Faculty Named APHA Social Worker of the Year

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• Georgia Southern Faculty Assess Disease Intervention Specialist Education for the Future

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• Georgia Southern Examines Increasing Breastfeeding Duration and Exclusivity in Rural Women

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• Georgia Southern Assesses Child Body Mass Index Perceptions

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• Distinguished Faculty

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• Georgia Southern Receives Grant to Study Prenatal and Early Childhood Biomass Smoke Exposure and Child Neurodevelopment
• Georgia Southern Receives Grant to Optimize Care of Adolescents and Adults with Sickle Cell Disease

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• Understanding Obesity and Self-Esteem: What Your Weight in Middle School Says about You Now
• Georgia Southern study shows number of obese adults trying to lose weight is decreasing

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• Georgia Southern Examines Maternal Caregiver Support for Prevention of Childhood Obesity

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• Georgia Southern Applies Mixed-Methods Design in CommunityEngaged Research

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• Georgia Southern Senior Honored as ESG Founder’s Award Winner

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• Georgia Southern Partners with NYU in Study of the association of Perceived and Actual Overweight on School Absenteeism

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• Sixth Annual Willow Hill Heritage Festival

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• Georgia Southern Examines the Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Educational Campaign
• Georgia Southern develops and conducts psychometric testing of a childhood obesity perception survey

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• Georgia Southern Translates Research into Practice

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• Georgia Southern Engages Rural Georgians
• Georgia Southern Examines Using the Exercise is Medicine® on Campus platform

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• Georgia Southern shows dangerous disconnect between doctors and parents of overweight children

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• Georgia Southern Alum Selected as Commencement Speaker

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• Georgia Southern Participates in Pilot Curriculum

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• Georgia Southern Examines Internalized Homonegativity among AAMSM in Southeastern US

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• Georgia Southern Examines the Relationship between Religiosity, Spirituality, Internalized Homonegativity, and Condom Use among African American Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Deep South

Inhalable Exposure Levels Of Airborne Mold Spores In Rural Georgia Homes, Jacquelyn Lewis, Alli Mcinerney, Errol Spence, Bushra Shah, Atin Adhikari

GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium

Exposure to mold is known to cause allergic symptoms. Most molds produce highly allergenic proteins or glycoproteins that can cause hypersensitivity diseases in susceptible hosts. Between 10% and 60% of genetically susceptible persons develop immediate hypersensitivity to mold. The Institute of Medicine report on Damp Indoor Spaces and Health states that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that a causal relationship exists between the presence of mold and upper respiratory tract symptoms, cough, hypersensitivity pneumonitis in susceptible persons, wheeze, and asthma symptoms in sensitized asthmatic persons. To our knowledge, no research has been conducted in rural Georgia to test the …

Airborne Bacterial Exposure At Workers' Breathing Height In An Organic Farm Of Rural Georgia, Tedd Gandy, Nabanita Mukherjee, Bushra Shah, Subhrajit K. Saha, Pratik Banerjee, Atin Adhikari

GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium

Organic farming has potentials to contribute substantially to future sustainable agricultural production by improving soil quality, pest control, and reduction of adverse environmental impacts in rural agricultural communities. On the other hand, application of natural farmyard manure may increase the microbial biomass in this environment and consequently microbial exposure levels among workers could be increased. To explore this possibility of excess exposure, particularly to airborne bacteria, we conducted air sampling at the vicinity of poultry and dairy sections of a large organic farm in a rural Georgia location. For air sampling, a Biostage viable cascade impactor was utilized, which comprises …

Effect Of Natural Products On Overall Microbial Activity In Household Items, Teyaijah Givens, Nosa Lloyd Nwaonumah, Brittany Loadholt, Bushra Shah, Atin Adhikari

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Indoor contamination from microorganisms is an important health hazard issue (e.g., respiratory allergy, infections, and food contamination). Particularly, growth of molds and bacteria in damp environmental conditions could be hazardous for the occupants susceptible to microbial allergens. The growing awareness concerning the adverse effects of chlorine bleach and cleaning chemicals calls for field-testing new natural ingredients with functional properties against microorganisms. Essential oils possess a wide spectrum of antimicrobial activity, which may be of great importance for controlling indoor microbial exposure. The objective of this study was to investigate how microbial growth in different surfaces of homes reacted to the …

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• Georgia Southern Identified Social Marketing Concepts that Inform Program Adaptation