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College of Public Health Launches Online Masters Program
June 23, 2023UGA’s College of Public Health is launching a fully online, accredited Masters in Public Health (OMPH) in the spring of 2024. The OMPH will offer greater access to the essential training this program provides and addresses some of the critical needs in Georgia, our nation, and around the…
Emerson to head College of Public Health’s Office of Online Learning
September 16, 2021Kerstin Emerson has been selected to lead the University of Georgia College of Public Health’s Office of Online Learning. A clinical associate professor in the Institute of Gerontology at the College of Public Health, Emerson has been teaching at the College for 11 years and coordinating…
10 Women of UGA Online to Honor on International Woman’s Day
March 8, 2021March 8, 2021, marked International Woman’s Day–a day to honor and remember trailblazing women. The University of Georgia has a number of accomplished faculty who have created valuable research, innovating teaching methods and more. Below is a list of some of the successful women in the UGA Online…
Graduate Certificate of Gerontology teaches student about disaster management and more
December 3, 2020Christopher Russo worked as a Clinical Researcher studying Alzheimer’s and dementia in older adults. With the goal of protecting the health of the general public and focusing on emergency preparedness, Russo decided to pursue a Graduate Certificate in Gerontology online at the University of Georgia. In his decision…
Crises Like the Pandemic Don’t Make People Less Optimistic
August 18, 2020As humans, we are built to have a positive outlook on our future, and a recent study from the University of Georgia’s Institute of Gerontology shows that the elderly are handling coronavirus the most optimistically out of other age groups. The study specifically shows…
UGA Professor Researches Feelings of Loneliness in the Time of COVID-19
July 28, 2020Kerstin Emerson, a clinical associate professor of gerontology at UGA’s Institute of Gerontology and new online Graduate Certificate in Gerontology, said she’s concerned that older adults could be experiencing more exacerbated feelings of loneliness due to social distancing. America’s oldest citizens say they’ve been through worse,…