Faculty/Staff – Leadership & Influence
Helping People by Helping Communities
Sylvette La Touche-Howard, PhD, CHES, NCC
My background is in psychology, so I always wanted to help people. I took my first intro to public health class right as I was coming out of graduate school...
Healthy Economies Begin with Healthy People
Anne Zink, MD
I don’t think that there’s ever been a more important time to think about what makes Americans healthy, and to really understand what makes Americans healthy we need data, we...
Harnessing Multidisciplinary Collaboration to Improve Population Health
Abdul Shaikh, PhD, MHSC
What we bring to the table when we talk about the health care enterprise at large is a few things… One is multi-disiplinarity, right, we have all these incredibly important...
From Treating Illness to Preventing It
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH
I went to medical school I was planning originally to work in rehabilitation medicine and then changed to primary care but I got completely captured by one lecture in medical...
Finding My Calling in Public Health
Brittany Sutton
Whenever I was applying for grad school when it came time to write the personal statement and I started reflecting I thought about how all of my grandparents really passed...
Empowering Tomorrow’s Public Health Leaders Through Trust and Action
Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH
The critical importance of academic public health is to one, engender trust in young adults that public health is a profession that matters by demonstrating that we actually care about...
Discovering My Calling: Finding Public Health
Deborah Beete, MPH, MDiv, CHES
I thought I wanted to be a doctor, which is the story of many people in public health right… and I actually did not want to be… I was interested...
Connecting Science, Policy, and Community
Donna Petersen, ScD, MHS, CPH
Academic public health is a huge part of the public health ecosystem because we educate the professionals who work in the field, we do the research that builds the scientific...
Collaboration for a Healthier Future
Kristi P. Fedinick, PhD
I think that academic public health plays a really important role because it brings together different perspectives in a single location that allows them to ask and answer questions in...