2025

SDSU’s Associated Students presented its 2021 Presidential Leadership Aztec Achievement Award to CHHS dean for his support to students during the pandemic.

Congratulations to Drs. Eyal Oren and Humberto Parada in the School of Public Health for being named inaugural Presidential Research Faculty Fellows! This highly-competitive award goes to just six SDSU faculty each year and will allow Oren and Parada to advance their research agendas, which focus on respiratory health in underserved populations and environmental links to cancer in Latinx communities, respectively.

Mary Hernandez, a master’s student in the School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, is one of just seven SDSU students chosen for the prestigious California State University (CSU) Sally Casanova Scholars award for the 2021-22 academic year.

A public health researcher’s work could help reduce health disparities and expand transgender women’s access to a lifesaving drug.

His mighty defense contributed to an undefeated Aztecs season and a bowl win.

Parental benefits such as Medi-Cal provide proven benefits to children, just not right away.

Mark Reed, Ph.D., Associate Vice President of Operations at SDSU’s Division of Research and Innovation and Public Health professor in SDSU’s School of Public Health, is one of just three distinguished researchers selected as a 2021 Fellow at the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB).

Dr. Steven Hooker, Dean of the College of Health and Human Services is pleased to announce the new Center for Excellence in Aging & Longevity (CEAL) at San Diego State University, formerly known as the SDSU Center on Aging.

In a salute to professionals who have been battling the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 20 months, nurse Eva Lozano (’04) will represent health care alumni as honorary chair of this year’s homecoming celebration. Homecoming committee members selected Lozano for the honor because, they said, her work exemplifies the courage, compassion and dedication displayed by front-line health care personnel whose efforts they want to acknowledge.

Dr. Melody K. Schiaffino was recently selected as a Rising Star to participate in an NIH-funded U13 Bench-to-Bedside Conference Series on Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, the American Geriatrics Society, and the American College of Cardiology. Participation was by invitation or selection only and Dr. Schiaffino provided her expert input to inform future NIH proposals on cancer and cardiovascular disease in aging populations.