Tulane University Preventive Medicine Residency Program

CMMP has partnered with the Louisiana Department of Public Health to create CMMP’s COVID-19 Public Health Internship Program.

Are you a pre-health minority student (sophomore year of college through post-graduate education) in the NEW ORLEANS and BATON ROUGE areas interested in being trained to provide COVID-19 and public health education to vulnerable, at-risk populations in the local community?

Check out details about the program and download an application using the link in our bio. Contact [email protected] for questions. The deadline to apply is October 16th.

Hey kids👋🏼!! Now anyone age 6 months and older can get their COVID vaccine. Don’t wait. Vaccinate. 😃

Happy Juneteenth weekend.
“No one is free until we all are free”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Our award winning PGY-2/PM-1 at the annual ACPM conference. And a surprise visit from an alum Dr J.

Our PGY-2/PM-1 residents and their award winning poster at the annual ACPM conference.

These two boys had been exposed to the same smallpox source. One had been vaccinated, the other hadn't. This picture shows the real difference, and the enormous importance, vaccination makes.
During 5,000 years of recorded human history, we have only eradicated one disease; Smallpox. In 1801, Edward Jenner hoped his discovery of vaccination would bring nothing less than the annihilation of smallpox. His hope was realized.
On this day in 1980 when smallpox was officially declared dead by the World Health Assembly.
This picture was taken by Dr. Allan Warner in Leicester, 1892.
Credits: Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox / Gareth Williams

The risk for getting monkeypox in the United States is low, but it’s important to know the symptoms. Anyone who has a rash that looks like monkeypox and has had potential exposure to the virus should talk to their healthcare provider. A monkeypox rash may initially appear similar to pimples, blisters, or raised bumps, and it may be accompanied by fever and chills.

Tell your healthcare provider if you had contact with a person who might have had monkeypox, or if you were in an area where monkeypox has been reported. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3t3dCiy.

Remember to stay safe when grilling this holiday weekend.

Thank you to those who served and never came home. You gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms may we never forget that.

Over 55% of the US population lives in medium to high risk transmission areas. Please be safe this holiday weekend and wear a mask indoors or other crowded spaces.

Chapman S, Alpers P, Agho K, Jones M. Australia's 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm su***des, and a decade without mass shootings. Inj Prev. 2015 Oct;21(5):355-62. doi: 10.1136/ip.2006.013714rep. PMID: 26396147.

Abstract
Background: After a 1996 firearm massacre in Tasmania in which 35 people died, Australian governments united to remove semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns and rifles from civilian possession, as a key component of gun law reforms.

Objective: To determine whether Australia's 1996 major gun law reforms were associated with changes in rates of mass firearm homicides, total firearm deaths, firearm homicides and firearm su***des, and whether there were any apparent method substitution effects for total homicides and su***des.

Design: Observational study using official statistics. Negative binomial regression analysis of changes in firearm death rates and comparison of trends in pre-post gun law reform firearm-related mass killings.

Setting: Australia, 1979-2003.

Main outcome measures: Changes in trends of total firearm death rates, mass fatal shooting incidents, rates of firearm homicide, su***de and unintentional firearm deaths, and of total homicides and su***des per 100 000 population.

Results: In the 18 years before the gun law reforms, there were 13 mass shootings in Australia, and none in the 10.5 years afterwards. Declines in firearm-related deaths before the law reforms accelerated after the reforms for total firearm deaths (p=0.04), firearm su***des (p=0.007) and firearm homicides (p=0.15), but not for the smallest category of unintentional firearm deaths, which increased. No evidence of substitution effect for su***des or homicides was observed. The rates per 100 000 of total firearm deaths, firearm homicides and firearm su***des all at least doubled their existing rates of decline after the revised gun laws.

Conclusions: Australia's 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly su***des. Total homicide rates followed the same pattern. Removing large numbers of rapid-firing fi****ms from civilians may be an effective way of reducing mass shootings, firearm homicides and firearm su***des.

Nearly every American has a story of how gun violence has affected themselves or someone they know. Violence prevention is Preventive Medicine. Tulane Preventive Medicine is deeply saddened by the recent mass shootings. We will continue to work towards a world free from gun violence. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the families and communities who are grieving.