Students, faculty, and staff across the School of Public Health are committed to providing excellent teaching and other student experiences and to ensuring Michigan Public Health is an inclusive community for all.
Students led us through the lockdown phase of the pandemic with positive attitudes, exemplary flexibility, and an intense work ethic. They’re leading us now as we return to hybrid forms of teaching, learning, and research.
Socially engaged design might go by other names. But by any name, it is central to how we structure many of the public health interventions and programs that help people get and stay healthy. Master’s student Anthony Dang sees tremendous potential for role socially engaged design to help unlock new solutions to public health problems.
Whether you have specific interests or career goals or just want to know more about public health systems and practices generally, massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide valuable practical knowledge from Michigan Public Health experts.
Trends and hashtags can raise awareness, but education and difficult conversations can really move the needle from injustice and racism to understanding and equity. Michigan student-athletes, including alum and current master’s student Briana Nelson, formed a student organization to move us forward to change.
This spring, the school graduated its first cohort from the online MPH program. The graduates came into the program from a variety of backgrounds. Many of them balanced full-time jobs—including as frontline health care workers—with their course load.