Building a Culture of Wellness in Michigan Schools
Christian Mackey
Christian Mackey is a Master of Public Health student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
MPH Results
Calling and Career: Shaping Public Policy to Improve Population Health and Advance Equity
Tianna Morgan
Tianna Morgan takes on difficult advocacy conversations because policy is central to everyone who works in public health, from environmental quality to communicable disease to food access. “Fundamentally,” she says, “policy is an intervention.”
Pursuing Clean Water for Marginalized Communities of Israel
Ruth Thomas
Ruth Thomas is a MPH student in the Global Health Epidemiology track, with a keen interest in international health and marginalized communities.
The Perfect Fit: A Career That Blends Hard Science and Social Science
Jessica Yaser
As an undergraduate student, Jessica Yaser realized she had constructed a competition in her mind between the hard and social sciences. She has discovered in public health a beautiful balance between the two.
Coast Guard Veteran Promotes Worker Health and Safety for NASA
Steven Vanderlaske
Environmental Health Sciences student Steven Vanderlaske interned for NASA this past summer, at their Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.
Preventing Sickness and Injury: An Occupational Passion
Karin Dove, MPH '16, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
Karin Dove knows the public health work she does will impact large populations of people. Data is her key tool in that endeavor, and translating the value of that data is one or her biggest challenges and joys.