Coast Guard Veteran Promotes Worker Health and Safety for NASA
Steven Vanderlaske
Environmental Health Sciences student Steven Vanderlaske interned for NASA this past summer, at their Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.
Environmental Health Sciences
Preventing Sickness and Injury: An Occupational Passion
Karin Dove, MPH '16, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
Karin Dove knows the public health work she does will impact large populations of people. Data is her key tool in that endeavor, and translating the value of that data is one or her biggest challenges and joys.
Research and Equity in Global Public Health
Chanese Forté
Growing up in the Atlanta metro area, Chanese Forté was fortunate to be close to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which helped get her interested in epidemiology. At Michigan Public Health, she's putting all of her passions together—equity, worker health, chemical exposure, and cancer.
Harnessing Atomic Power for Good: A Half-Century of Nuclear Energy Studies
James E. Martin
James Martin led a career spanning all the twists and turns of nuclear energy—weaponry to nuclear power and medicine. Within weeks of completing his undergraduate degree, Martin recalls, “I was chasing radioactive fallout clouds in Nevada.”
Helping Keep Michigan Workers Safe
Abilene Emerson
Abilene Emerson (MPH Candidate, Environmental Health Sciences) completed an industrial hygiene internship last summer at Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, as the safety intern. In this short video, Abilene describes one of the many health and safety projects she worked on, a noise exposure assessment of all the lines in the massive complex.
Walking Beans, Hair, and Reproductive Samples: From Pesticides to Public Health
John Meeker
As a teenager growing up in rural Iowa, John Meeker spent countless hours in the corn and soybean fields doing farm work to make money. “We would often be out ‘walking beans,’ where you go row by row through soy fields to kill weeds,” he says. He and his friends would receive an unmarked bottle of liquid and would either walk or ride a tractor as they sprayed.