December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Health policy and management Kimberley Geissler became interested in public health while completing an undergraduate degree in economics and chemistry at Williams College. Her... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share Master’s student Health behavior and health education Jenna Garrett grew up in a small town in the northwestern United States. When she left home, she discovered... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Epidemiology “Health and its accompanying issues, from the exotic to the mundane, shape our world,” Jess Edwards says. “Health is a prerequisite for development... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Environmental sciences and engineering After completing an undergraduate degree at Tufts University, Jonny Crocker volunteered in Latin America and Ghana.A schistosomiasis prevention project he... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Epidemiology Mehul Patel is interested in research that can have an immediate impact on the public’s health. “Stroke continues to affect the lives of... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Nutrition “I’m Mexican, and since the beginning of college, I knew I wanted to pursue a doctoral program abroad,” says Carolina Batis, now in... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student, Nutrition Sanofi/UNC Global Nutrition Scholar About diabetes Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share An interview with Sandra L. Martin, PhD Martin has served since 2007 as associate dean for research at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Having... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Biostatistics 2011-2012 Fryer Fellow Jon Hibbard started out as a mathematician, pure and simple. It’s a subject he loves. But when one of his... Read more »
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Maternal and Child Health Layla Lavasani, who received her master’s degree in international health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, works to... Read more »
