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Global Seminar - 2024

Italy: Mediterranean Secrets to a Long Life

Discover the secrets of why people live over 100 years in "Blue Zones" as you explore Sardinia, Italy.

Prior to leaving for the global seminar, the class will meet four times. You will read texts and engage with other materials as it relates to what you will be seeing and learning while in Italy. Classes will consist of participatory activities designed to engage you in learning about the nine factors that contribute to longevity, specifically as the factors relate to Sardinia, Italy.

What's Happening?

GRAND FORKS, N.D. –Melanie Nadeau and Amanda Young were recently honored with 2015 Alan Allery Awards. The awards honor outstanding American Indian graduate and undergraduate student health…

First-year MPH student Alayna Eagle Shield joins NDSU INBRE Project Manager Pearl Walker along with twenty-two other tribal citizens as part of the seventh cohort of Rebuilders. The seventh cohort of…

Dr. Donald Warne, Department of Public Health Chair,  published with co-author Dr. Denise Lajiomodiere an article in Social and Personality Psychology Compass entitled “American Indian Health…

MPH Student Rebecca Schmidt featured in Fergus Falls Journal article

MPH student Mallory Danford offers a look into how to better serve the senior of West Fargo

Dr. Mark Strand, who teaches within the MPH program, has two abstracts accepted for the World Diabetes Congress in Vancouver in Nov, 2015. “Reduction in risk factors among
 pre-diabetic Chinese women…

Smudging ceremony featured in Fargo Forum and WDAY

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