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Online MPH student Ethan Bouche was able to contribute to a large-scale research project as a distance-learner. He described his analysis of COVID-19 mortality within the California Teachers Study, exploring the pandemic's role in excess deaths and shifts in leading causes of death among participants.
University of Michigan student Darius Moore details a recent trip to Grenada with the Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Malaria, one of the world's oldest diseases, remains a significant public health problem worldwide. A group of University of Michigan School of Public Health students recently developed a digital tool to make existing data on the disease more accessible.
The expansion of higher education into the online environment has the potential to increase access for students and open doors for innovations in teaching. A seasoned expert in developing online courses in public health, Michael Rubyan shares some of the techniques and tools he has leveraged to make learning public health in the virtual classroom a unique and engaging experience.
The romanticism of global public health work, says Chinyere Neale, will not survive the pandemic nor the new forms of collaboration it has demanded of researchers. Knowing that we can do really good work from anywhere in the world—including our current location—is a good thing for public health.
Alex Parks came to public health with moral convictions. She now employs evidence, frameworks, and statistics to back them up. She’s also discovering the deep scientific value of stories, and the problems we create if we wait too long for overwhelming evidence.