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As the health care industry is asked to reduce total spending while also delivering greater value, health care leaders across the field will have to step up, says alum Kelly Rakowski, by embracing change and looking in new places for innovative talent.
Anthropology showed her how the human body works in its environment. Nutritional Sciences taught her to interpret and apply data. Now Hollie Kicinski is bringing it all together to improve public health across the state of Indiana.
With a legal background and a PhD in health policy, Rebecca Haffajee explores the relationship between the law and health, focusing on policy issues related to behavioral health, such as the opioid epidemic and marijuana legalization.
Christian Mackey is a Master of Public Health student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Tianna Morgan takes on difficult advocacy conversations because policy is central to everyone who works in public health, from environmental quality to communicable disease to food access. “Fundamentally,” she says, “policy is an intervention.”
Informed by clinical experience and the perspectives of the advocacy community, Kendrin Sonneville brings rigorous science to the pursuit of more weight inclusive approaches to health. Her work asks how we can promote health in a way that’s independent of body size, and promote health and nutrition without increasing weight bias, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating.