Category Archives: Students of Public Health

Grad Student Helps Develop Website to Help Hurricane Victims Determine Toxic Waste Impact in Their Neighborhoods

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by Rae Lynn Mitchell Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. STUDENT PROFILES — When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017, homes were obliterated and floodwaters were left everywhere near its impact, with water redistributing dangerous chemicals and toxic waste endangering the health of Houston residents. Pablo

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Call for Stories: Public Health Student Narratives

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Calling Students of Public Health Are you researching an infectious disease for the betterment of population health? Experimenting with social media as a means of quickly communicating urgent public health alerts? Studying and tackling climate change as part of an internship or practicum?   Do you wish more people understood the important work you’re doing?! So do we.   That’s

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Student Helps to Stamp Out Smoking at Sporting Events in Ireland

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by Jennifer Lawless Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. Student Voices — When I was looking for an internship, I knew I wanted to do something different. I wanted to travel and to see whether I could make a difference in other people’s lives abroad. With

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Preventing Intimate Partner Violence: Integrating Routine Screening into Primary Care

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Public Health Commentaries by Students is the result of a classroom writing assignment by Dr. Erika Martin at the University at Albany-SUNY who required students to write a 1,000- to 1,200- word commentary on a health-related topic of interest, explaining some of the complexities of solving the problem and offering recommendations. Four commentaries have been selected for publication on JPHMP

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A Willingness to Try New Things Led MPH Student Zoha Anjum to a Career in Global Health

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by Zoha Anjum Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. Student Voices — During my undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, I worked with the Youth Health Action Network (YHAN) on accessibility to mental health services in post-secondary institutions. My involvement led to the publication of

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New Cancer Epidemiologist Offers Advice to MPH and PhD Students

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by Shailesh Advani Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. Student Voices–The field of epidemiology in cancer research provides an opportunity to understand the disease distribution and its impact on population health, trends, and patterns across diverse racial-ethnic groups and geographical regions, in addition to the impacts

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Med Student Explores the Connection Between Physical Healing and Spirituality

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by Quincy Banks Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. STUDENT VOICES — Medical school has progressed nicely, but there came a time to do research, and I had no idea as to what my research project should be. Nothing seemed to catch or keep my attention.

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Planting Seeds for the Future of Tanzania

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by Rae Lynn Mitchell Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. STUDENT PROFILES–In a small town mainly comprised of houses made of mud and tin, Texas A&M University School of Public Health graduate Jill Jahns spent eight months without running water, speaking a language she had started

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Environmental Health Student at Univ. of California, Irvine, Urges Others to Enter Public Health

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by Tuan D. Tran Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. STUDENT VOICES — I see no better time to learn and work in the field of public health than NOW. Critical health and environmental issues such as over-population, rapid depletion of natural resources, global warming, and

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Students Who Rocked Public Health 2017

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This entry is part 9 of 15 in the series Students of Public Health

Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. In 2016, we began featuring the contributions that students of public health bring to the field in our popular monthly series of the same name, culminating in December with a year-end review of eight additional students whose projects seemed both timely and important to tackling the public

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