A West Virginia University researcher says exercising on local rail trails has doubled during the pandemic and is safe as long as people use best practices to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
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The program, Health Informatics and Information Management, focuses on how health information is gathered and analyzed, as well as how that information is utilized and protected.
The School of Public Health and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Public Health are partnering on an initiative to recruit participants for a newly developed online course, Contact Tracing and Pandemic Response.
Excited to see how the concepts she learned in class are being applied in the real world, School of Public Health student Rachel Baker recently attended the American Public Health Association Policy Action Institute.
Community members are invited to pray for front-line workers (WVU Medicine employees and first responders) while following social distancing guidelines at an interfaith, non-denominational prayer gathering to be held at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday (May 13) in the parking lots located directly in front of WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital.
WVU Medicine has extended its waiver of all outpatient personal pay fees associated with telehealth services, including deductibles and copayments, to May 31.