Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Dany Zemmel, MPH '20, earned an MPH from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology and was a Dow Sustainability Masters Fellow.

Finding New Passions in Public Health Outside the Classroom

Dany Zemmel, MPH '20

While studying occupational and environmental epidemiology, master's student Dany Zemmel has contributed greatly to another area of public health studies—health equity through food access. Collaborating with peers to grow a food security initiative that benefits students on campus, she has expanded her skills in the field of public health while making an impact on her local community.

Khalil Hosny Mancy, professor emeritus of Environmental Health Sciences, lowers an oxygen sensor into the Nile River as it runs through Cairo in 1971.

Healthy Water, Healthy People

Khalil Hosny Mancy

Long before the dangers of global warming were clear to us, public health researchers were pursuing protective measures for our most basic and valuable environmental resources and linking that work to concerns about health equity and environmental justice.

Kate Wilhelmi

Supporting Education and Promoting Wellness

Kate Wilhelmi

Kate Wilhelmi started her career in working with students as an educator. Now she’s empowering students on their journeys in public health, and helping them stay fit along the way.

Pahriya Ashrap

Silk Road Native's Dream Repeats with Every Intervention

Pahriya Ashrap

When Pahriya Ashrap sees people in need, she imagines opportunities to help—whether she’s in an Ann Arbor lab or online with a math mentee on the other side of the world. Her simple, powerful dream of making a positive impact has motivated her on her long road to public health, where she works to build bridges of culture and science.

Madeline Levasseur earned an MPH from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Epidemiology.

Data Analysis and Population Health

Madeline Levasseur, MPH '19

While earning an MPH in Epidemiology, Madeline Levasseur did a summer internship at the Kent County Health Department, working on multiple data analysis projects to help identify health factors at play in the community.