Students

Abilene Emerson

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.

Danny Gessel

Improving Access through Strong Hospital Leadership

Danny Gessel

Health Management and Policy student Danny Gessel spent his summer interning at Ambulatory Care Services at Michigan Medicine, helping with the site activation of the new West Ann Arbor Clinic. In this Field Notes, Danny talks about the experience, as well as the importance of hospital administrators in moving healthcare forward.

Hannah Eck

Communicating Health Data to Everyday People

Hannah Eck

The subject of our latest Field Notes, Health Behavior and Health Education student Hannah Eck, talks about her health communications internship with JOOL Health, and her passion for translating research for the general public.

Julian Roby

Combining Advocacy, Policy, and Research to Make an Impact in Public Health

Julian Roby

Whether he’s working alongside lawmakers in Michigan’s capital, community members in Ohio neighborhoods, or researchers and psychologists in Chilean schools, MPH candidate Julian Roby is putting his public health education into action to become an agent of change around health disparities and health policy.

Joel Begay

Conducting Culturally Competent Public Health Work in Native Communities

Joel Begay

Joel Begay’s work with Native communities has provided him valuable insight on how to partner with communities in a way that does not exploit them. As a public health professional, he aspires to help fill gaps around minority health data by collecting and analyzing data while helping tribal governments, health professionals, and other government agencies interpret the data to ultimately improve Indian Country.