Community is a main motivator for Will Burnett, who recently graduated with his bachelor’s in public health from the Department of Public Health Education. From working as a field data collector with the Center for Housing and Community Studies (CHCS) to interning with the New Arrival Institute, Burnett applied public health principles to make real-world impact in the community — all while maintaining a 3.9 GPA.
Dr. Jennifer Toller Erausquin and fellow researchers were putting the final touches on a public health survey they would pilot for the World Health Organization when a stunning event took precedence: the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. She was on her way home from Kenya – from an international… Continue reading…
“Voices for Reproductive Justice (V4RJ),” a university-community partnership, which highlights the application of social justice and health equity approaches to reproductive health. Historically, reproductive health advocates have applied a narrower, rights-based framework that focuses on bodily autonomy and has privileged the voices of white, middle-class women.
“I’ve never cried in an interview before, but I was so moved by the conversation and personal connection,” said UNCG doctoral student Mohammed Jibriel. “I knew UNCG was the right place for me.”
Congratulations to Carrie Rosario, Dr.PH., MPH, CHES, on her recent appointment to North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) Board of Directors by NC Governor Roy Cooper!
Louise Vincent, who received her MPH from UNCG in 2013, is currently the executive director of the North Carolina Survivors Union, a harm-reduction and syringe service program in Greensboro, NC.
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Structural racism, a fundamental cause of health inequities, must be dismantled to fulfill societyʼs interest in ensuring conditions in which all people have opportunities conducive to health. Correspondingly, the Ten Essential Public Health Services center equity, and Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation criteria require public health students to learn about racism.
There are still questions about COVID-19, vaccines, and the new Delta variant. At times, it can feel like information overload. We checked in with UNCG School of Health and Human Sciences’ resident pandemic expert, Dr. Jennifer Toller Erausquin, to help extract fact from fiction. Erausquin is an associate professor in the Department of Public Education and a social epidemiologist who studies the way social determinants ― such as social structures, institutions, and relationships ― affect patterns of disease among populations.
Not only did the faculty in the Department of Public Health Education kick off a new semester of preparing the next generation of public health leaders, they were also voted as one of the top 3 Bachelor’s in Community Health Education by Best Value Schools!
Dr. Sharon Morrison, professor in the Dept. of Public Health Education, has been working with these populations for over 15 years, and when the pandemic hit, she swiftly changed her coursework and research so she and her students could focus on outreach for African American, Bhutanese, Montagnard, and African immigrant and refugee communities.
