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Personal Health Stories of Emory Students Living & Learning through COVID-19

Today on Destination Health EU, Health 1, 2, 3, educator Sarah Wolber introduces a new series for which Human Health students will be discussing how they maintain health during the switch to online learning.

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Student Perspective: Impact of Human Health’s Experiential Learning Program, Part 3

Photo by Ella Olsson on Unsplash Editor’s Note: This piece is the third student essay about Human Health students' experiences participating in Health 1, 2, 3’s classroom to community 4th level component. See here to learn more about this new program. By: Patrick Crockett…

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No Kidding | Dr. Lindsey Leininger: Policy & Play dates

Dr. Lindsey Leininger is a public health educator and researcher, and a clinical professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Eleanor and Dr. Leininger talk about numbers, health and, of course, the global pandemic on this week's episode of Health…

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Student Perspective: Impact of Human Health’s Experiential Learning Program, Part 2

By: Drayson Campbell Editor’s Note: This piece is the second of six student essays about their experiences participating in Health 1, 2, 3’s classroom to community 4th level component. See here to learn more about this new program. The obesity…

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The Pandemic’s Ignored Warnings

May 26, 2020
Maryn McKenna
Enquire

In the middle of May, 2018, a few days more than two years ago, a virus surfaced in Frankfurt, Germany. Mid-May is after the end of flu season, but this virus behaved like the flu, causing coughing and sneezing, which…

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Student Perspective: Impact of Human Health’s Experiential Learning Program, Part 1

By: Olivia Berger Editor’s Note: This piece is the first of X student essays about their experiences participating in Health 1,2,3’s classroom to community 4th level component. See here to learn more about this new program. My time at King…

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An Introduction to Human Health Student Outreach

By: Sara Thorpe Editor’s Note: Over the next several weeks, Destination HealthEU will feature pieces from students from the Center for the Study of Human Health. This piece is an introduction to six student essays about their experiences participating in…

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No Kidding | Dr. Monika Roots: Being a Kid in a Pandemic

Dr. Monika Roots is a Child Psychiatrist and the Chief Medical Officer of Sanvello Health, a telemedicine startup from United Healthcare. Join the host of the Health is Everything: No Kidding segment, Eleanor Barrett, as Dr. Roots helps give insight…

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Maryn McKenna: COVID-19, Foresight & Hindsight

Maryn McKenna is an award-winning journalist and science writer who has spent decades studying pandemics and other issues on the frontline of infectious disease and health. Join guest host, Charles Raison, as Maryn provides insider knowledge on the COVID…

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The Burden of Caring: Moral Injury during COVID-19

April 29, 2020
Yeeun Lee
News, Read

By: Yeeun Lee Moral injury can be defined as “the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct.”…

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