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Dr. Larissa R. Brunner Huber has been awarded a grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to investigate the association between short birth intervals and under-studied adverse pregnancy outcomes using data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). In addition, she will assess the relationships of selected demographic, lifestyle, and reproductive factors […]

Many thanks our friends and colleagues for your support and advice during our recent CAHME re-accreditation process. Our site visit just concluded with a preliminary finding that the Department fully met 33 of 35 criteria and have partially met the remaining two. Of those two partially met criteria, one related to a student competency-level assessment […]

On August 15th, 2016, the Department of Public Health Sciences’ MSPH program will become an MPH degree! This name change does not alter curriculum, accreditation, or commitment to preparing public health practitioner scholars. Students will continue to complete 36-39 credit hours of classroom instruction; a 3 credit field experience or internship; and a capstone experience […]

This summer, Sanjana Prabhu, BSPH ‘16, completed her BSPH internship at Victoria Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Victoria is a “district” or government hospital in the southern suburb of Wynberg, which serves over 6,000 uninsured patients and approximately 100,000 patients overall. Sanjana says, “Working in this small 180-bed hospital with its narrow hallways and […]

Sangamithra Krupakar, MSPH ’14, received the 2015 Academic Practice-Based Research Section Student Award for her presentation entitled: “Association between hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and breastfeeding initiation and duration” at the Fall North Carolina Public Health Association (NCPHA) meeting held in Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Krupakar’s presentation was based on her MSPH thesis. Sanga currently works at […]

This summer Obed Ohia, BSPH ‘16, had the opportunity to intern in our nation’s capital with the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) through The Washington Center, a partnering organization with UNC Charlotte. While interning at the NHMA, Obed worked on various programs that sought to increase the number of minorities working in the health care […]

Nicole Rodgers, BSPH ‘16, interned through the Washington Center Internship program at the Office of Safety and Security at the Peace Corps headquarters in Washington DC. She worked with the Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Response (SARRR) team with the goal of helping the team gain more understanding about the time response burden for the […]

Ms. Camina Davis presented at APHA for her work titled Village HeartBEAT: People, partnership, pride, and progress. Village HeartBEAT works with Black and Hispanic/Latino churches in the Charlotte area to reduce cardiovascular disease among the Black and Hispanic/Latino community. Each church formed a ten person team that competed in a weight-loss challenge against other churches. […]

This past summer Joseph Okeiga, BSPH ‘16, interned in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the Multidisciplinary International Research program (MIRT) hosted by the Harvard School of Public Health. This highly competitive program requires an application and interview for acceptance. This program is designed to encourage underrepresented students to pursue careers in biomedical and behavioral science research. […]

Dr. Michele Issel, professor and Director of the PhD in Public Health Sciences Program, presented three of her research projects at the APHA 2015 annual meeting in Chicago, IL. Using data from a study funded by the Health Resources Services Administration, Dr. Issel gave two oral presentations while at APHA. One presentation titled, “Measuring population-patient […]