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Dr. James Lacey is the Principal Investigator of the California Teacher’s Study and a University of Michigan School of Public Health alum. He is excited to be giving back to the public health program by supporting the learning of current students through remote research opportunities.
Online MPH student Dana Robles-Garcia collaborated with the California Teachers Study (CTS) to conduct remote research which examined healthcare use disparities among bisexual, lesbian/gay, and heterosexual women.
Bachelor's student Sahana Raja spent her summer at a global public health internship in Tamil Nadu, India, the region where her parents were born. She describes learning about healthcare and poverty, maternal health, and a calling to serve.
“I stepped into the all-familiar Michigan Medicine hospital. This time, however, my perspective was more than a little bit different. I had wandered these halls just weeks prior—not as a patient, but as a medical student. Now, I entered as an expectant mother.”
While COVID stretches already stretched health care systems across Africa, the future of Africa’s health care insurance systems is full of opportunity, promising improved coverage and creative care delivery across all sectors of society.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic exposed how structural factors place individuals at an increased risk for infection, something we are seeing again today with COVID-19. Can lessons learned from the HIV epidemic help prevent us from making the same mistakes today?