Alumna selected for CDC fellowship program
June 28, 2011 | |
Rachele Bowman, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumna and staff member, has been invited into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Associate Program. The competitive two-year paid fellowship, available for recent baccalaureate graduates interested in pursuing careers in public health, is administered through the CDC’s Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support.
Bowman was one of 65 selected from about 1,200 applicants to the program. After two weeks’ training in Atlanta in July, she will work in Manassas, Va., at the Prince William County Health Department beginning Aug. 1. “While appreciative of the public health curriculum to which I was introduced in the classroom, I recognize that a truly comprehensive understanding of public health is best achieved through frontline day-to-day exposure,” Bowman said. “The Public Health Associate Program offers an invaluable opportunity to expand my working knowledge of the industry and provide momentum to [my] public health career path.”
Bowman, from Philadelphia, received a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from UNC in May 2010 and has worked since then in the public health school’s Office of Global Health. She hopes to pursue a Master of Health Administration degree in health policy and management and to develop her professional interests in health care quality improvement, chronic disease prevention, health systems strengthening and community-based interventions.
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.
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