College of Public Health and Temple Med Respond to Coronavirus

Join us as faculty and staff from the College of Public Health and Lewis Katz School of Medicine discuss their research and work related to COVID-19. We’ll hear from Sarah Bass, Wendy Cheesman, Deborah Crabbe, Krys Johnson, and Omar Martinez as they dive into the latest issues from contact tracing to effects on LGBTQIA populations.

About the speakers:

Dr. Sarah Bass is an associate professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department in the College of Public Health at Temple University and Director of the Risk Communication Laboratory. She has advanced the field of health communication by applying commercial marketing techniques to the development and testing of messages and interventions.

Dr. Wendy Cheesman is the program director for the BS in Health Professions at Temple. She holds a master in public health with an emphasis in health policy and ethics from Creighton University, a transitional DPT from Temple, and an MS in physical therapy from the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Cheesman also has 22 years of experience as an educator and clinical preceptor in a CAATE-approved athletic training curriculum.

Dr. Deborah Crabbe is a professor of medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple with a speciality in cardiology. Her research interests include sex-differences in cardiac function in health and disease and racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Crabbe is part of a team that received a Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program for a project on racial and sex-specific cardiovascular disease disparities in COVID-19.

Dr. Krys Johnson is an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Temple. She received her PhD in public health with a concentration in epidemiology from the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida. Dr. Johnson's research interests are in mitigating health disparities through community-based participatory research and culturally appropriate behavioral interventions.

Omar Martinez is an associate professor at Temple University’s School of Social Work. He also leads Temple’s Implementation Sciences Laboratory. His research integrates perspectives from public health, medicine, law, social work, and human sexuality to create interdisciplinary strategies to address health inequities. Professor Martinez will present on the social and structural drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic among Latinx populations and outline a set of recommendations and approaches to improve health and the response to COVID-19 among Latinxs.

This program will be presented via Zoom. On the day of the program, use this link to join: https://temple.zoom.us/j/97340687825

All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. 

Contact Geneva Heffernan at geneva@temple.edu with questions.