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Collecting data from millions of patients and figuring out how to process and use it occupies much of Bhramar Mukherjee's time.
Rick Neitzel didn't always want to be an industrial hygienist or a professor. In college he explored programs in aerospace engineering and aviation safety before finally settling on a safety program. But it wasn't until he took a class on industrial hygiene that he knew he'd found his calling.
After spending his first two years at Michigan working with the homeless population in Ann Arbor, the junior decided to join the nearly 100 students who have begun majoring in public health as part of the School of Public Health's first undergraduate cohort.
As professor and chair of the Nutritional Sciences department, Karen Peterson wants public health to have a greater role in preventing disease in children and in offering effective interventions when things have gone off track.
I tried being a chemistry major for a couple semesters, but then I failed physics. I tried pre-med, but I met a lot of doctors who didn't seem to enjoy their lives. I finally landed on biology of global health, which was a new major at my university.
"I think this next generation is about change. I'm hopeful that this group will take the resources that they've been given—and the challenge—and really work to be the changers that we need them to be."