Health Behavior and Health Education

Rohan Jeremiah

Family Matters, Community Matters: Challenging Opportunities in Public Health Practice

Rohan Jeremiah, MPH ’06

As alum and public health professor Rohan Jeremiah knows well, public health does its best work when it remembers the inherent strengths and unique qualities of the communities it seeks to serve. This means paying close attention to local cultures and thinking creatively about ways to turn challenges into opportunities.

Kim-Ngan Nguyen

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.

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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.

Taryn Gal

Sex, Public Health, and Being Human

Taryn Gal, MPH ’07

Working alongside young people as executive director of the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health, alum Taryn Gal and her team help ensure young people have access to sexual health services and sexual health education. And she reminds us that we all have a stake in sexual health.