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The Family Medicine Division is actively involved in patient
care and clinical teaching with an emphasis on the principles
and practice of outpatient primary care and managed health
care. The division also has clinical faculty in a variety
of community settings within the Boston area. It has a substantial
role in the Tufts Family Practice Residency Program, and
affiliations with the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
in Lawrence and the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor,
Maine. The diversity of these programs, with service to
urban, suburban, and rural populations, and a strong clinical
base represents a major strength for the division and department.
Learn more about the Family
Medicine Division .
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Maintaining and protecting the public's health requires
an interdisciplinary understanding of many disciplines and
approaches, which is reflected in the public health division's
research and teaching. The division shares a focus on applying
their skills and knowledge to public health problems and
a willingness to involve students in that work as well.
The Public Health Division has diversified pool of experienced
faculty, drawn from throughout the university and beyond
who are dedicated teachers who also are work full time in
the public health field. In addition, the division oversees
the 1 st year medical school epidemiology and biostatistics
course and the academic administration of the Public Health
and Professional Degree Programs.
Learn more about the Public
Health Division.
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The Nutrition/Infection Unit was established in 1986 to
research the relationship between nutrition and various
diseases. Since 1994 the division has specialized in nutrition
& HIV disease. Visit their Nutrition
& HIV Research section for more on their HIV research
studies, information on HIV nutrition and health, and links
to HIV websites. Their most recent initiative is the Tufts
Nutrition Collaborative - Center for Drug Abuse and AIDS
Research (TNC-CDAAR), a joint project on HIV infection
and drug abuse by Tufts, Brown, and Johns Hopkins universities.
The Nutrition/Infection Unit also develops and implements
the nutrition curriculum for medical students and residents
at Tufts School of Medicine, in part through the Nutrition
Academic Award Program. Additionally, the microbiology
laboratory conducts studies on diarrhea, lactobacilli strains,
and antimicrobial drugs. The biochemistry laboratory is
engaged in fatty acid analyses, lipid research, and hormone
studies. Learn more about the Nutrition/Infection
Division.
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Global health is an interdisciplinary field that fuses relevant disciplines to the end of improving the health and welfare of people globally. The field takes full advantage of international comparisons and lessons that can be applied both at home or internationally. Our goal is to prepare our graduates to be full participants in the effort to identify and address global health issues.
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