{"id":3002,"date":"2025-01-23T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:12:00","slug":"utrf-technology-maturation-grant-awardee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/2025\/01\/23\/utrf-technology-maturation-grant-awardee\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Russomanno Awarded UTRF Technology Maturation Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1498\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/img_russomanno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1498\" class=\"wp-image-1498 \" src=\"http:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/img_russomanno-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Protrait of Jennifer Russomanno in a black shirt\" width=\"319\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Russomanno, DrPH, MPH, CHES<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/utrf.tennessee.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF)<\/a> recently announced the recipients of its annual maturation grants, Public Health&#8217;s Dr. Jennifer Russomanno was at the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/utrf.tennessee.edu\/innovator-resources\/technology-maturation-fund-program\/past-maturation-fund-recipients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will be used to fund Dr. Russomanno&#8217;s project titled:\u00a0 Reality Check: Using Board Games to Teach About Social Determinants of Health and Their Impact on Health Outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Russomanno serves as the Associate Department Head of the Department of Public Health.\u00a0 She is also the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program Director and an Assistant Professor of Practice.\u00a0 She currently serves as an advisor for students in both the community health education and epidemiology concentrations of the MPH Program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3003 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/01\/awardee.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) recently announced the recipients of its annual maturation grants, Public Health&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,25,42,120,43,44,188],"tags":[246,267,80,36,47,48,30,81,50,109],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievements","category-awards","category-faculty","category-faculty-recognition","category-grants","category-research","category-scholarship","tag-246","tag-267","tag-award","tag-awards","tag-faculty","tag-grant","tag-public-health","tag-recognition","tag-research","tag-scholarship"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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