As a member of the Michigan Rowing Team, Traci Carson spent her undergraduate years chasing athletic and academic achievement, but the pursuit took a toll on her mental and physical well-being. Now, as a doctoral student at Michigan Public Health she’s exploring interventions and prevention frameworks to help student-athletes like her stay healthy, body and mind.
Growing up in Appalachia, Travis Donahoe has always been curious about health care disparities and what makes certain places healthier than others.
Brian Segal’s life in New York City brings more than just opportunities for fun, it also gives him and his team the chance to improve the quality of patient care for those living with cancer.
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.
Allison Burlock has made it her mission to make statistics easier for everyone to understand, and to improve patient care while doing so.
As a grad student, it's been a transition to work in a more applied mathematical field, but I'm really enjoying it. The breadth and tangible benefit of our work with respect to human health truly differentiates biostatistics from other quantitative disciplines.