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Health Promotion

WEBHealth promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of …

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URL: https://lifesciences.byu.edu/programs/public-health/health-promotion

Taking Public Health Out of The Classroom: …

WEBOluwandamilola Obalana, MS ’24 (PH), was on track to be a medical professional - until she realized she wanted to prevent people from getting sick instead …

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Making a difference in public health

WEB“I saw a lot of the inner workings of public health, due to different health challenges in my family,” Baer says. At one point, she’d thought about possibly …

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Life Sciences Homepage

WEBParker Carlquist eagerly participated in several of BYU's inspiring learning opportunities, traveling to places like Europe and Washington, D.C. These experiences opened his …

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Handcrafting Access to Global Health

WEBMelissa Levy (MPH '09) helps lift thousands of people out of poverty by empowering 2,919 artisans in nearly 20 countries through her company Ethik.

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Exercise and Wellness

WEBExercise and Wellness is a departure from the typical U.S. medical model, in that the focus is on helping individuals achieve optimal health and fitness, rather than on discovering …

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Medical Laboratory Science

WEBThe Medical Laboratory Science degree provides a curriculum to train students to practice medical laboratory science in diagnostic laboratories or other healthcare-related …

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Nutritional Science

WEBNutritional Science is the study of the effects of food components on the metabolism, health, performance and disease resistance in human, animal and cell systems. It also …

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Changes in Life Sciences Faculty

WEBDr. Gordon Lindsay was a teacher at heart. He left his first job teaching health to pursue a Ph.D. in health education and preventative medicine. After brief public health …

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How to reduce human-caused environmental changes

WEBReducing human-caused environmental problems. 1. Overexploitation of resources. Let’s take it back to the basics and reduce, reuse, and recycle. Recycling is …

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Translating the Art of Medicine

WEBWhen Maggie Scribner (PH ‘23) walked onto BYU’s campus for the first time, she dreamed of becoming a physician assistant (PA). But for Scribner, pursuing …

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Finding New Ways to Use the Immune System to Fight Cancer

WEBKiara Whitley (MMBIO ’22), recipient of the prestigious Simmons Cancer Center Fellowship, began her PhD in 2016.She joined the Weber Immunology Lab to …

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Air pollution costs Utahns billions annually and shortens life

WEBAir pollution has been a problem in Utah since before the territory was officially recognized as a state. The mountain valleys of this high elevation region are …

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Visiting Columbia Professor Lectures On Sleep Health

WEBRestricted sleep raises your blood pressure, reduces insulin sensitivity, and increases oxidative stress. Be that as it may, St-Onge asserts that sleep is not the part …

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