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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?

March 24, 2017 – Fargo, North Dakota – Donald Warne, M.D., MPH, and Melanie Nadeau, Ph.D., MPH in NDSU’s Department of Public Health have contributed a book chapter in the recently published “Solving…


Maryann Harris is familiar with the challenge New Americans face. Her family emigrated to the U.S. from Liberia when she was 16. A recent graduate of the Master of Public Health program, Harris leads…

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