Growing up in the Atlanta metro area, Chanese Forté was fortunate to be close to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which helped get her interested in epidemiology. At Michigan Public Health, she's putting all of her passions together—equity, worker health, chemical exposure, and cancer.
James Martin led a career spanning all the twists and turns of nuclear energy—weaponry to nuclear power and medicine. Within weeks of completing his undergraduate degree, Martin recalls, “I was chasing radioactive fallout clouds in Nevada.”
Abilene Emerson (MPH Candidate, Environmental Health Sciences) completed an industrial hygiene internship last summer at Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, as the safety intern. In this short video, Abilene describes one of the many health and safety projects she worked on, a noise exposure assessment of all the lines in the massive complex.
As a teenager growing up in rural Iowa, John Meeker spent countless hours in the corn and soybean fields doing farm work to make money. “We would often be out ‘walking beans,’ where you go row by row through soy fields to kill weeds,” he says. He and his friends would receive an unmarked bottle of liquid and would either walk or ride a tractor as they sprayed.
Dana Dolinoy’s work has been instrumental to putting the field of environmental epigenetics on the map. “It was a combination of timing and luck—that I started grad school at the time [the agouti] mice were becoming famous, and I got to start on this path,” she says.
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.