Welcome to the PHS Club Newsletter

Hello Club Members and Public Health Enthusiasts! Happy Week 8! We are so close to the end of this quarter! Remember to give yourself a break whenever you can. We have changed our meeting times from 7:10 PM every other Tuesday to 6:10 PM every other Tuesday.

CLUB NEWS

We have many things that will be coming up in the future that we are very excited for!

Are you planning on graduating this school year and are continuing your education through graduate schools/PhD programs? We would love to hear from you in our survey so that we can congratulate you and showcase you at our meeting! Graduating Survey
Our meeting times have changed! We have gone from Tuesdays at 7:10 PM to Tuesdays at 6:10 PM. We hope this fits your schedule better and we look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting.
Our club meeting is next Tuesday, March 8 at 6:10 PM. We plan on having Dr. Brad Pollock (Professor and Chairman at UCDavis for Public Health Sciences Department) We hope to see you there on ZOOM

3. We will continue having Club Workshops to help any club members with questions about graduate school, internships, and public health in general. Be sure to attend on ZOOM on Tuesdays at 6:10 PM on the weeks we do not have official club meetings. We have our next Club Workshop at March 1 @ 6:10 PM

5. Make sure to check out our AggieLife and sign yourself up as a member if you haven’t already done so at AggieLife and check out our home website https://aggielife.ucdavis.edu/publichealthsciencesclub/home/

6. Join our Instagram page @phsclubatdavis

Graduate School Resources

To ease some anxiety about this topic and get answers to questions, look into the resources below!

Handbook for Applying to Grad Schools

https://opportunity.ucdavis.edu/services/pre-grad-law/resources

For more information, email: pregradadvising@ucdavis.edu

STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteer Research Assistants Needed at UCDavis MIND Institute Miller Lab Are you interested in learning more about the research process? We are looking for volunteer research assistants who are detail-oriented; motivated; work well independently and as part of a team; are interested in autism, ADHD, and the research process; and are ready to learn. Research assistants must be available to commit 9 hours/week for a minimum of 1 calendar year (12 months). For questions or if you would like to apply, please email us at: hs-millerlab@ucdavis.edu.
Winter Internship and Career Fair
CDC Biological Sciences Internship
OEOES Summer Research Fellowship
- Application for summer 2022 will open on Tuesday, February 15th and the deadline is March 6th, 2022.
Plant or cow’s milk yogurt: which is better for you?
Scope: This project will be to perform a literature search on yogurt and use collected nutritional profiles and market sizes of yogurts made in the USA to examine their nutritional and health benefits. Outcomes of this project will be the selection of certain plant and cow’s milk yogurts to test in a simulated model of the human digestive tract and compare how the nutrients and probiotics in the yogurts are released over time.
Contact: Professor Maria Marco mmarco@ucdavis.edu
UCDavis Student Intern Surgical Facility Research
CoronaNet Research Project
Frontlines Tutoring
Research Associate, Viral Production
Histology Lab
Knight's Landing Volunteers
Plant Sciences
Molecular and Cell Biology Lab
Undergraduate research at UCDavis Health
Student assistant at UCDavis Plant Biology Department
Quarter at the Aggie Square

PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE WORLD

Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 95,000 deaths and 2.8 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2011 – 2015, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 29 years. Further, excessive drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20-64 years. The economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption in 2010 were estimated at $249 billion, or $2.05 a drink. Excessive drinking includes binge drinking, heavy drinking, and any drinking by pregnant women or people younger than age 21. Binge drinking, the most common form of excessive drinking, is defined as consuming: For women, 4 or more drinks during a single occasion, For men, 5 or more drinks during a single occasion. Heavy drinking is defined as consuming: For women, 8 or more drinks per week, For men, 15 or more drinks per week. A significant proportion of the disease burden attributable to alcohol consumption arises from unintentional and intentional injuries, including those due to road traffic crashes, violence, and suicides, and fatal alcohol-related injuries tend to occur in relatively younger age groups. Environmental factors include economic development, culture, availability of alcohol, and the comprehensiveness and levels of implementation and enforcement of alcohol policies. For a given level or pattern of drinking, vulnerabilities within a society are likely to have similar differential effects as those between societies. Although there is no single risk factor that is dominant, the more vulnerabilities a person has, the more likely the person is to develop alcohol-related problems as a result of alcohol consumption

EXTRAS

If anyone is interested in having a “Member Spotlight”, please email us! You will be included in the next newsletter and you can include information about yourself or a project you are working on. If you would like to be featured, please include the following information in your email to us with the subject line “PHS Club Member Spotlight”: Name, Year, Major, Interest in Public Health/Career Goals, and if applicable, what research/project you are working on. You are also welcome to discuss at club meetings about any public health issue you are interested in, any research you are working on, or even practicums you have done if you would like to share your knowledge and experiences.

Things have been unclear and frustrating this winter with the Omicron variant; however, the US can still turn things around with clear and proven steps to minimize exposure and improve the COVID response for the entire country. Phase 1 of this campaign is to demand free and continuously accessible N95 masks and at-home tests for the public, paired with clear data-driven policies on how and when to use them.

Without a strong federal response, our current pandemic policies (or lack thereof) will only increase our existing health inequities. The failure to have an equity-centered approach perpetuates our long national history of structural racism.

Over the weekend, a letter/petition to White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients was launched. We aim to have at least 500 public health professionals as well as 3,000 stakeholders who have been affected by COVID sign on to the letter by January 10th. If you are interested in signing, please do! Also, if there are others in your network who would be interested, please share and promote!

*Find the letter here: https://www.dearzients.com/

The Spring 2022 Graduation Application is open

Are you scheduled to complete your degree requirements at the end of spring 2022 and are you planning to graduate? If so, congratulations! The online graduation application is open and will close on March 11, 2022; you will not be able to apply for spring 2022 graduation after this date. Please check with your college and/or major advisors regarding the completion of your degree requirements. Be sure to keep your confirmation receipts when you apply for graduation and when you register for commencement. Only students who register for commencement will be issued guest tickets for the ceremony. Please note that registering for Commencement does not mean you have applied to graduate. If you have questions about the graduation application, please contact the Office of the University Registrar at 530-752-3639 or Contact an Expert. For questions regarding your college’s commencement ceremony, please contact your college Dean's Office.

Resource: Free At-Home COVID-19 Antigen Tests

Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 free at-├ó┬ü┬áhome COVID-├ó┬ü┬á19 tests. The tests are completely free. Orders will usually ship in 7-12 days. Order your tests now so you have them when you need them. https://www.covidtests.gov/

In response to the omicron variant and Yolo County Public Health guidance, UC Davis is working to provide a KN95, N95 or KF94 respirator as a voluntary upgrade for students or employees who would like to use one to meet campus face covering requirements during in-person course components. More details about how to upgrade your face covering. (Jan. 13, 2022)