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Volume 21
ISSN: 1545-1151
- Positioning Students for Success: 2024 Student Paper Contest Winners, Student Committee Research Skills-Building, and Release of 2025 Call for Papers
- Trends in Gestational Weight Gain and Prepregnancy Obesity in South Carolina, 2015–2021
- End-of-Year Reflections and Looking to the Future After 20 Years of Scholarly Publishing in Public Health Research, Evaluation, and Practice
- Trends in Mental, Behavioral, and Developmental Disorders Among Children and Adolescents in the US, 2016–2021
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- Call for Papers | Students Have Their Say: Novel Approaches and Solutions to Current and Emerging Public Health Problems
- Call for Papers | 2025 Student Paper Contest
- Call for Papers | Rural Health Disparities: Contemporary Solutions for Persistent Rural Public Health Challenges
- Call for Papers | Screen-Time Effects on Mental Health, Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Sleep Across the Lifespan
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