Undergraduate
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From the Pool into the Field: Applying Team Experience to Public Health Major
Kathy Rogers
In the pool, Michigan water polo student-athlete Kathy Rogers helps her team win games. Outside the pool, she has much bigger aspirations as she chases her dreams of making the world a healthier place through the field of public health. Read more
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Motivating a New Generation to Address Health Inequities
Amani Echols
Amani Echols' chose public health because she wanted to make the most impact for the most people. As a co-founder of the Health Equity High School summit, and a staff member at doula program, Dial-A-Doula, she's working directly to combat health inequity and inspire new leaders. Read more
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Environmental Studies and Human Nutrition: A Vital Nexus of Public Health Potential
Maddy Schmitter, BS ’19
Maddy Schmitter writes from Southeast Asia, where she is working on organic farms to learn more about sustainable food systems. With these experiences and all she learned as a public health student at Michigan, she will continue supporting practices that lead to better human and environmental health. Read more
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You're Never Too Young to Have a Global Reach
Kim-Ngan Nguyen
Having immigrated from Vietnam as a child, Ngan Nguyen was inspired by the opportunities that move afforded her. Now, she’s using her public health education to support people in under-resourced countries around the globe. Read more
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Always Learning and Growing: Future Physician Motivated by Health Education
Joeita Macfield
Inspired by her experiences with health education initiatives, sophomore Joeita Macfield is already putting to work what she has learned in her public health bachelor’s courses. The aspiring physician is now supporting health education for peers on-campus with a new student organization. Read more
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Honoring the Legacies of Those She Loves
Carmelita Perrien Naccarato
Growing up, bachelor's student Carmelita Perrien Naccarato was surrounded by the untimely deaths of family members. But their stories became one of the driving forces behind her interest in health. Now at Michigan Public Health, honoring the legacy of those she loves inspires her pursuit of public health. Read more
