Harvard joins Puerto Rico’s COVID-19 Surveillance System
March 30, 2020
Harvard University’s School of Public Health has joined the COVID-19 Surveillance System, which is led by a team of epidemiologists from Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce Research Institute and the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust, the academic institutions announced. Through a collaborative agreement, the schools will work jointly in the collection and analysis of data […]
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Statistics Institute launches COVID-19 data dashboard; Researchers design contagion tracker
March 18, 2020
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics unveiled a new dashboard on its website called COVID-19, through which citizens will have access to official data on the local impact of the virus, based on data provided by the Health Department, agency Executive Director, Orville Disdier said. Among the data that users will be able to access […]
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Ponce Health Sciences University to start remote classes
March 16, 2020
Starting today, Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU) will cancel, until further notice, the face-to-face classes at its facilities in Ponce and San Juan and will start distance courses by doing using existing academic platforms (Zoom, Canvas, Moodle, Office 365) and the Dynamic Classroom modality, in which the student maintains an active role in the learning […]
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Ponce Health Sciences University lands $22M grant for disease research
September 26, 2019
The National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities has renewed a $22 million grant to the Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU) to be used over the next five years. Funding through the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program (RCMI) has enabled PHSU to establish and develop an advanced investigation infrastructure, university […]
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Ponce Health Sciences University gets $2.6M for behavioral healthcare
September 6, 2019
The Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded $2.6 million to Ponce Health Sciences University’s Primary Care Psychology Program to develop two proposals to train students and professionals to provide behavioral health services and problematic substance use in primary care settings. The Primary Care Psychology Program has been providing mental health services integrated into health […]
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Ponce Health Sciences University to build new $80M campus
February 12, 2019
Ponce Health Sciences University has broken ground on the construction of an $80 million campus and medical research facility, which will be the largest of its kind in Puerto Rico, school officials said. The expansion comes in the wake of the conditional authorization it has received from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education – which […]
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Ponce Health Sciences Univ. launches new MS degree
July 25, 2017
Starting in August, Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU) will offer Puerto Rico's newest Master of Science in School Psychology degree, school officials announced Monday.
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