Dr. Sunny Jung Kim Awarded Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor
During this year’s promotion and tenure cycle, Sunny Jung Kim, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Kim joined the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2018 as an assistant professor. She is also a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. Kim’s scholarship focuses on translating communication, behavioral, and […]
Graduate Spotlight: Stacie Lefeavers, Ph.D., M.P.H.
It’s Spring Graduation season and we’re celebrating our most recent graduates from the School of Public Health. Stacie Lefeavers, Ph.D.’25, M.P.H.’20, R.N., recently defended her dissertation, earning her Ph.D. in social and behavioral sciences. In this video, Lefeavers shares the impact and findings from her research on intimate partner violence and sex trafficking on college […]
Graduate Spotlight: Julie Russo, Ph.D., M.P.H.
It’s Spring Graduation season and we’re celebrating our most recent graduates from the School of Public Health. Among them is Julie Russo, Ph.D.’25, M.P.H.’21. Russo chose VCU in part because she was drawn to the research of Kellie Carlyle, Ph.D., who became her advisor for both degrees. During her time at SOPH, she came to […]
VCU appoints Monica Swahn, Ph.D., dean of VCU School of Public Health
Swahn comes to VCU from Kennesaw State University where she served as dean and professor of Wellstar College of Health and Human Services. By Mike Porter Virginia Commonwealth University today announced that Monica Swahn, Ph.D., has been named dean of the VCU School of Public Health, effective July 1, 2025. The Board of Visitors will officially consider […]
For the People: VCU School of Public Health
By Paul Brockwell Jr. Photos by Daniel Sangjib Min An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. What Benjamin Franklin first said centuries ago is a truth recognized for decades by faculty on the MCV Campus who knew there was a missing piece to VCU’s academic enterprise in health sciences: public health. In […]
School of Public Health ranks in top 50 for NIH research funding
by Madeline Reinsel 22 VCU Schools and Departments rank in the top 50 of the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research’s 2024 rankings Five of Virginia Commonwealth University’s health sciences schools and departments rank in the top 15 for National Institutes of Health research funding in their fields among public institutions, according to new rankings […]