Alum Chris Cobb's latest challenge, and his biggest to date, is the opioid epidemic. “The opioid epidemic has impacted our communities so tremendously here that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is putting a lot of resources into its public health response,” he says.
After the Navy, I went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Armstrong State University in Savannah, Georgia. Then I came to the University of Michigan to work as a research staff member for Rick Nietzel, associate professor of environmental health sciences. After a year and a half, I began the master’s program in industrial hygiene and earned my Master of Science degree in 2016.
Hadlee Garrison and Kate McManus, Master of Public Health students at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, spent their summer interning with Food Gatherers, a food rescue and food bank program serving Washtenaw County, Michigan.
I always felt hungry for knowledge. Pursuing an academic career was completely foreign to me. I didn’t know anyone who had gotten a PhD. But I knew I wanted to learn.
As professor and chair of the Nutritional Sciences department, Karen Peterson wants public health to have a greater role in preventing disease in children and in offering effective interventions when things have gone off track.
I tried being a chemistry major for a couple semesters, but then I failed physics. I tried pre-med, but I met a lot of doctors who didn't seem to enjoy their lives. I finally landed on biology of global health, which was a new major at my university.