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Shannon Hamilton has always loved the outdoors. That’s part of what drew her to pursue a master’s degree in environmental health sciences from Michigan Public Health. “I’m very interested in how environmental exposures during our lifetime influence our health,” she said.
After the Navy, I went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Armstrong State University in Savannah, Georgia. Then I came to the University of Michigan to work as a research staff member for Rick Nietzel, associate professor of environmental health sciences. After a year and a half, I began the master’s program in industrial hygiene and earned my Master of Science degree in 2016.
Hadlee Garrison and Kate McManus, Master of Public Health students at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, spent their summer interning with Food Gatherers, a food rescue and food bank program serving Washtenaw County, Michigan.
Sarah Gutin, BS ’03, is passionate about global reproductive health. She is several years into a PhD program in health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health and has been building a career in public health for over a decade.
“Overanalysis leads to paralysis!” my coached yelled from the opposite end of the rink, over my program music blaring from the speakers.
I always felt hungry for knowledge. Pursuing an academic career was completely foreign to me. I didn’t know anyone who had gotten a PhD. But I knew I wanted to learn.