Sickle Cell Disease as a Lens for Health Policy and Equity
Melissa Creary
Professor of Health Management and Policy Melissa Creary uses sickle cell disease as a lens to tell a broader story about policy development and attempts at achieving equity.
Health Management and Policy
In the Business of Keeping People Alive: Notes from a Public Health Judge
Hon. Patrick Shannon, MPH ’92
Judge Patrick Shannon looks forward to Mondays, when he sees firsthand the spectrum of problems that arise from the current national opioid epidemic. The stories he hears include abuse, neglect, and mental health. Instead of handing out jail sentences, Shannon has helped implement “the public health approach” in offering alternatives to jail time—prevention, intervention, and treatment.
Tobacco Control: A Success Story with a Side Story
Lucie Kalousova, PhD ’17
As a doctoral student, Lucie Kalousova knew she needed a dissertation topic that would make a meaningful contribution to improving population health and closing health disparities. The academic rigor and spirit of collaboration she found at Michigan helped her meld public health and social sciences into research that helps mitigate the adverse effects of smoking on minority and low-SES groups.
Motivating a New Generation to Address Health Inequities
Amani Echols
Amani Echols' chose public health because she wanted to make the most impact for the most people. As a co-founder of the Health Equity High School summit, and a staff member at doula program, Dial-A-Doula, she's working directly to combat health inequity and inspire new leaders.
Honoring My Grandmother: In Pursuit of a Healthy Future
Batsheva Honig
Batsheva Honig strives to make a positive public health impact by shaping public policy and health care.
Their Lives in Our Hands: The Privilege and Power of Patient-Centered Care
José Gutiérrez
Regardless of the role you play in health care, patients should be at the center of how we design our systems of care, says master’s student José Gutiérrez. To that end, Gutiérrez is committed to implementing administrative and physical structures in health care that are patient-centric.