On August 11th, 2021, the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Board of Trustees approved the “Resolution for Disability, Ableism, and Health Equity in Public Health Education & Health Promotion Practice” thanks to the work of 2nd year Public Health Education Ph.D. student, Rose Ewald.
Paul Chelimo won a Bronze medal in the Men’s 5000 K race during the Tokyo Olympic games on Friday, August 6th! Chelimo, a Community Health Education alumni, had a race time of 12:59.05. During the Rio Olympic Games Chelimo took home a Silver medal in the Men’s 5000 K.
Love Odetola, PHE Ph.D. candidate, recently appeared on Fox 8 News for her work with UNCG’s Center for Housing and Community Studies. Beginning in 2019, Odetola worked with the team to collect water samples and install water filters in homes located in southwest High Point. Those samples came back with… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Dr. Erica Payton Foh and graduate student, Naglaa Raswhan, who took home Spartans of Excellence Awards during the 2021 Virtual Ceremony that was held in April.
This fall, Jacqueline Sandoval ’21, a public health education alumna, will begin a Master of Public Health at Yale University, one of the top research universities in the world.
Congratulations to Fatima-Ezzahara Salmi for winning the 2021 Graduate Research & Creativity Expo – Showcase of Scholarship! Salmi, under the direction and mentorship of Dr. Sharon Morrison, submitted a narrated poster presentation about their COVID- 19 health education outreach and support for Bhutanese refugee families, Assessing the Natural Helper Approach to Greensboro’s Bhutanese Community COVID-19 Challenges.
As you might know, a recently publicized Greensboro Zoning Board meeting included an exchange between Dr. Carrie Rosario, AP Associate Professor of Public Health Education, and an appointed member of the Zoning Commission.
The 109-year-old stroke survivor nodding off nearby only recently began talking about the missions in the dense jungles of Vietnam. Of crawling on the jungle floor, ahead of the Americans, on the lookout for booby traps. The American advisers, the name for soldiers there in an undeclared war against the… Continue reading…
The Voices of Reproductive Justice, in cooperation with UNCG’s She Can We Can, Beyond the Women’s Suffrage Centennial, presented This is What Resilience Looks Like: The Power of Art Activism and Healing Webinar, on Tuesday, April 13th. The panel was consisted of Karen Anderson, Justice Advocate, Dr. Zitty Nxumalo, Creative Artistic Director of Zodwa Dance Co., Xavier Carrington, Visual Artist, and Keisha McKane, Chief Organizer Artists4Justice.
These fellows will meet each month with the CFRN co-directors to develop interdisciplinary research collaborations on UNCG’s campus and work towards a grant submission within the next year. We look forward to growing this fellowship program!
