Traveling through rural areas of other countries in her youth gave Helena Helme an introduction to public health. Helme is a senior, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Public Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is expected to graduate in May 2024.
In the pool, Michigan water polo student-athlete Kathy Rogers helps her team win games. Outside the pool, she has much bigger aspirations as she chases her dreams of making the world a healthier place through the field of public health.
Maddy Schmitter writes from Southeast Asia, where she is working on organic farms to learn more about sustainable food systems. With these experiences and all she learned as a public health student at Michigan, she will continue supporting practices that lead to better human and environmental health.
Bachelor’s student Lyric Kleber describes how pursuing public health will allow him to pay forward the generosity that helped him as a Michigan student with plans to give back to his community and the world at large.
Returning to the University of Michigan after five years working and volunteering with the National Alliance on Mental Health, Bachelor’s student Spencer Walz is using his personal experiences — and a guiding belief in vulnerability and the power of community — to carve a path to population and mental health work.
After spending his first two years at Michigan working with the homeless population in Ann Arbor, the junior decided to join the nearly 100 students who have begun majoring in public health as part of the School of Public Health's first undergraduate cohort.