Below is a highlight of the recent outstanding undertakings of the
SPHHS student and alumni. If you are a student or an alumnus and would
like to share some news about your recent activities or share a sampling
of your work with your cohorts, tell us about it here!
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Jenny Birnbaum, Pamela Bravo, Mateyo Bonham - Student
Jenny Birnbaum, Pamela Bravo and Mateyo Bonham will be conducting a summer social research project in the remote village of San Antonio de la Libertad, Honduras to assess common beliefs, concerns and practices related to hygiene and sanitation behaviors among women. This project is Pamela Bravo's Culminating Experience and Mateyo's practicum. Pamela will come to Honudras for the first 10 days to conduct some focus groups. Pamela Bravo received a Capital Connection Grant to help fund this project. Jenny, Mateyo and Pamela are working in collaboration with Engineers Without Borders and the Virginia Medical Health Brigade on this project.
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Laura Reimers - Alumni
Laura has taken a job in NYC as a Research Coordinator/Epidemiologist at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine. Good going Laura!
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Daniela Resh - Student
Daniela Resh, soon-to-be alumnus, received a fellowship this summer to study public health as it relates to Jainism. She will be doing her research in New Dehli and Jaipur, India, focusing on adolescent health and spirituality.
COOL!
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Michelle Cho - Student
Michelle (BSPH) will be working in South East DC with Unity Healthcare as a Health Educator
Coordinator after graduation.Good Job Michelle!
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Ruba Omeira - Student
Ruba Omeira, MPH candidate, is interning at ASTHO with fellow SPHHS alumnus Julia Pekarsky Schneider (MCH 'O3) on chronic disease prevention policy issues such as tobacco control, heart disease, cancer, stroke,
and diabetes prevention. Good going Ruba and Julia!
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Athena Abdullah - Student
Athena Abdullah has been selected to be a health panelist at the NAACP Leadership 500 Summit taking place in Scottsdale, AZ from May 22-25, 2008. Athena is currently a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Congressional Fellow in the office of Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means. When her fellowship ends in May, she will not have to go too far -- she will have the honor of joining the office of Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who sits on the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, as her Health Care Counsel!
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Lindsay Wheeler - Student
After graduation from the BSPH program, Lindsay will be working at the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disesase
At the end of summer 08, she leaves for a fellowship in Rwanda for 9-10 months
to do research on an NTD implementation project. In Summer '09 Lindsay will return to DC in to start the MD/MPH program at
GW with a focus in health policy. Awesome Lindsay!
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Dana Schlossberg - Student
Dana is working with the CDC and MD State Health Deparment on a case-control study investigating predictors for vascular access hemorrhage among dialysis patients. Also, CONGRATS... she be getting married in September!
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BSPH Students - Student
The students in the BSPH program have raised almost $400 to go to the repair of a Rwandan health clinic. A number of GWU students including 1 or 2 of our public health undergrad students will be working on site.
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Roksolana Gishta - Student
Roksolana will attend SPHHS for MPH program next year.
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Trey Watkins - Alumni
Trey recently accepted a position with YouthAIDS/PSI here in DC. Also, Trey's project from Argentina has been featured on FSD's new blog...pretty exciting! You can check it out at http://fsdinternational.wordpress.com/ Congrats!
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Deanna Olsen - Student
Deanna has been awarded a scholarship to study Hindi in India this summer via the US Dept of State Critical Language Scholarship. Deanna is currently a first year MPH in the Global Health track. How cool is that?
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Malissa Winograd - Student
Malissa has been offered an internship at GAO with the health care team! She will start in June.. After graduation. Kudos to you Malissa!
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Florencia Gonzalez - Alumni
Florencia Gonzalez, recent alumni has left MFA to work for a non profit in Uganda. Kudos to you Florencia! Check out her newsletter below!
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