Public Safety is tracking a significant snowfall that will be arriving in our area late Sunday morning (Jan. 25). It will snow heavily throughout the day and evening eventually tapering off Monday (Jan. 26) with 10-14 inches expected statewide. A sleet and freezing rain mix is also possible along the shore. Temperatures will be in the teens and twenties.
Due to this significant winter storm and the extensive campus clean-up operations that will need to take place, all in-person day and evening classes scheduled for Monday, January 26, 2026 have been cancelled. All scheduled in-person classes will transition to being held online or remotely. Additional information on the virtual format for each class will be provided by your instructor.
Faculty have been asked to prepare for Online or Remote sessions in the event of in-person meeting cancellations. These options will be determined by the Faculty member and all questions should be directed to the Faculty teaching each course section. Faculty also have been asked to be very understanding and accommodating of the individual situations of their students who may have difficulty managing these alternative online or remote class meetings on short notice.
Please note that only essential employees, as previously determined by their respective department leaders, should report to campus. All other employees should fulfill the requirements of their role remotely.
Campus operations for residential students, unless otherwise noted, will operate as scheduled, though hours may be modified or changed based on the conditions. Separate messages will be sent from the Peterson Library, the Beckerman Recreation Center, and Dining Services regarding any changes to their normal hours of operation. The Bergami Center for Science, Technology, and Innovation will remain open for residential students to use for study space and to participate in online classes.
Off-campus students that live in the City of West Haven should abide by the city’s parking ban during inclement weather to avoid having their vehicle tagged and towed. Please check the City of West Haven’s website for further information on their snow parking ban.
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Dr. Niharika Pathak ’23 MHA and Pavani Rangachari, Ph.D., CPH, recently collaborated to study healthcare utilization for childhood asthma, and their research was published in a leading peer-reviewed academic journal.
January 23, 2023
Dr. Pavani Rangachari, professor and director of the University’s MHA program, and I recently worked together to publish an article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). The article was based on a collaborative study with an academic medical center and entailed the collection of primary data through chart review by medical students.
The study examined individual risk factors associated with unscheduled healthcare use (ED visits or hospitalizations) for childhood asthma at the academic medical center. The rationale behind our interest was that unscheduled healthcare use for childhood asthma could be the result of individual demographic factors (e.g., patient’s age or asthma severity), or healthcare system factors (e.g., quality of provider-patient communication on asthma management or “supported self-management”) or even social or community-based risk factors, (e.g., absence of caregiver support or adverse social determinants of health impacting access to outpatient care for asthma).
The study found that while individual demographics, such as asthma severity and age, were significant in predicting unscheduled healthcare use, they only partially explained unscheduled healthcare use, since there were users and non-users of unscheduled healthcare across all severity levels (lowest to highest) for childhood asthma. This suggests considerable room for reducing unscheduled healthcare use through proactive interventions to improve “supported self-management of asthma” at the provider and organizational levels.
Importantly, clinic no-shows (missed outpatient visits for asthma) also emerged as a significant predictor of unscheduled healthcare use, and since clinic no-shows could be viewed as both an individual behavioral risk factor and a social risk factor (e.g., absence of caregiver support could lead to missed clinic visits), the study also helped provide insights into the role of adverse social determinants impacting unscheduled healthcare use.
Overall, the findings helped to identify short- and long-term strategies for improving supported self-management and reducing unscheduled healthcare use for childhood asthma at the patient, provider, and organizational levels.
Dr. Rangachari recently also published another article in an international peer-reviewed journal, BMC Health Services Research. This article addresses the topic of “telehealth implementation” through a scoping review of the literature to understand what has been learned from “applications of the Consolidated Framework of Implementation Research (CFIR) to telehealth implementation initiatives.”
I have greatly enjoyed working with Dr. Rangachari and pursuing research I am passionate about.
Dr. Niharika Pathak ’23 MHA, a dentist, is a candidate in the University’s Master of Healthcare Administration program.
University News
New University-wide council will advance strategic partnerships, immersive student opportunities, and innovative research, supporting the University’s strategic plan the development of its pioneering Center for Innovation and Applied Technology.
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Entrepreneur David Sussman, Pompea College of Business Advisory Board Member and chief visionary officer of The Family Security Plan®, is collaborating with University of New Haven students, faculty, and staff to create a program and app that helps Chargers support each other to achieve academic, personal, and professional goals. It’s called Uccountability.
University News
Vice President for Innovation and Applied Technology Paul Lavoie will serve on the Board of Directors and as America’s Chief Manufacturing Officer for the newly launched American Manufacturing Futures Institute.