School of Public and Community Health Sciences
Featured Research
The Research Committee SPCHS, announces its first annual Research Award winners. Student John Felton, MBA., FACHE, and faculty member Duncan Campbell, PhD, were each recognized for their outstanding research in the discipline of public health during the SPCHS. Student Orientation, held on the UM campus, August 29, 2008. In addition to being recognized, the award winners received $100 cash awards and presented their work to SPCHS students, faculty, and other public health professionals. The award recipients were chosen in accord with the SPCHS mission to recognize excellence in public health research.
Student Research Award Winner
Mr. Felton's meritorious achievement involved work on the largest reported community-based norovirus outbreak, which occurred in Spring 2006 in Billings. More than 1,100 people in the Billings area were ill, many in long-term care facilities. The bottom line according to Felton, is that "public health is much more than an academic exercise or routine government function - it is part of the very fabric of society." Mr. Felton's work, which involved a collaborator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was published in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Northwest Public Health.
Featured Faculty Projects
- Stigma & depression care delivery systems
- Substance use disorders in stigmatized minority groups
- Grassroots women’s organizations in Montana & Chile
- Patient Safety in rural settings
- Understanding numbers & health (Health Numeracy)
- Genetic variability in susceptibility to environmental insult
- Toxic wastes and Race
- Violence in the context of disability
- Health promotion intervention for Adults with developmental disabilities
- The social context of collegiate prescription drug misuse
- HIV Prevention Needs of Injection Drug Users
Faculty Research Award Winner
Dr. Campbell's meritorious achievement was a research study that compared depressed patients with and without Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The study involved 677 military veteran primary care patients with depression, among which 36% screened positive for PTSD. Dr. Campbell concluded that "PTSD is more common among these patients that previously thought, and the situation is further complicated by the increased burden of illness, poorer prognosis, and delayed response to treatments for depression." Dr. Campbell's work involved collaborators from the VA Health Care System, the University of Washington, UCLA, and RAND; it was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (2007;22:711-718).
PUBH Faculty Research Interests by Topic
Research Interests by PUBH Faculty
