Faculty Profile

Ella August

Ella T. August, PhD, MA, MS

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
  • Editor-in-Chief, PREPSS (Pre-Publication Support Service)
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Global Public Health

Ella August is a faculty member in the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the Editor-in-Chief of PREPSS (Pre-Publication Support Service). Through her work at PREPSS, Dr. August supports researchers in publishing their work in peer-reviewed journals, and instructors in teaching scientific writing. Dr. August's research investigates how to effectively teach writing in public health and seeks to better understand how to strengthen capacity for research publications. PREPSS works with clients across Africa, in Asia and the Americas.

  • PhD, Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005
  • MA, Written Communication, Eastern Michigan University, 2017
  • MS, Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999
  • Writing Fellow, and Advanced Writing Fellow, Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University, 2015
  • BA, English, Michigan State University, 1990

Buser JM, Morris KL, Dzomeku VM, Endale T, Smith YR, August E. Lessons learnt from a scientific peer review training programme designed to support research capacity and professional development in a global community. BMJ Global Health. BMJ Global Health. 2023;8:e012224. https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/4/e012224.full 

August E, Zelner S, Zelner J, Anderson OS. Developing Public Health Students’ Strategic Skills Through Authorship Training. Pedagogy in Health Promotion. 2022;0(0). doi:10.1177/23733799221137049 

August, E, Tadesse, L, O'Neill, MS, Eisenberg, JNS, Wong, R, Kolars, JC and Bekele, A. What is Global Health Equity? A Proposed Definition. Annals of Global Health. 2022;88(1): 50. DOI: https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/10.5334/aogh.3754 

Busse CE, Anderson EW, Endale T, Smith YR, Kaniecki M, Shannon C, August ET. Strengthening research capacity: a systematic review of manuscript writing and publishing interventions for researchers in low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e008059. https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/2/e008059

Zelner J, Broen K, August E. A guide to backwards paper writing for the data sciences. Patterns. 2022. https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00306-8 

Anderson O, Youatt E, Power L, August E. Clinical track faculty: making them count in public health education. American Journal of Public Health. 2021;111(1):30-32. 

Busse C, August E. How to write a publishable research paper for a peer-reviewed journal. Invited Paper. Journal of Cancer Education. 2020 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13187-020-01751-z. 

Busse C, August E. Addressing power imbalances in global health: Pre-Publication Support Services (PREPSS) for authors in low-income and middle-income countries. Invited Practice Paper. BMJ Global Health 2020. 5:e002323. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002323 https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/2/e002323

Anderson OS, August E. The Real-World Writing Project for Public Health Students: A Description and Evaluation. Pedagogy in Health Promotion. 2020 https://doi.org/10.1177/2373379920928094 

Anderson OS, August E. A disconnect between classroom and professional writing: we are not teaching public health students to write effective titles. Journal of Public Health 2020: 42(2): 412-415. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa034. 

Anderson OS, Kardia S, Gupta K, August E. Are we teaching our students visual communication? Evaluation of writing assignments in public health. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine. 2019. DOI: 10.1080/17453054.2019.1698943 

August E, Burke KJ, Fleischer C, Trostle J. Writing assignments in epidemiology courses: how many and how good? Public Health Reports. 2019;134(4):441-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033354919849942 

August E, Trostle J. Using writing assignments to promote critical thinking, learning and professional identity: The Epidemiology Workplace Writing Repository. Journal of Public Health Published January 30, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy011. 

Email: eaugust@umich.edu

For media inquiries: sph.media@umich.edu

Areas of Expertise: Global Public Health,  Health Communication