Below are just a few examples of how our faculty and staff have been helping rebuild New Orleans.

Students Produce CHS Video

CHS students and alumni produced a video highlighting their Public Health involvement in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

Residents Rank Rebuilding Priorities

The top priorities of New Orleans residents as they rebuild in a post-Katrina world were released in a survey this week by the Prevention Research Center.

Healthy PSAs Hit the Airwaves

A new ad campaign hit the waves of local radio in mid-June. Its target: New Orleans' African-American population. Its message: health and safety during hurricane season. Tulane University public health researcher Christopher Beaudoin and colleagues launched the radio advertising campaign...

A Head Start for Evacuated Kids

 As the population of Baton Rouge, La., swelled with displaced New Orleanians after Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University child psychiatrist and public health researcher Neil Boris and his colleagues realized the evacuees would need high-quality early childhood programming as they moved from shelters and hotels into mobile home settlements...

Rebuilding a Healthier New Orleans

Tom Farley worries about footprints. Not just the need to shrink the footprint--the city-limits area--of post-Katrina New Orleans but also the missing pitter-patter of children's footsteps on playgrounds and city sidewalks...

Food Companies Undermine Kids' Nutrition

Policy change at the local, state and federal levels may be what it takes to help parents counter the influence of food marketing on their children's health, says Michele Simon, director of the Center for Informed Food Choices, who will speak at Tulane on April 10...