Health Communication

Randel Richner

The "Well-Behaved" Advocate: A Career in Public Health Policy

Randel Richner, MPH '90, Health Management and Policy

As a nurse in northern Michigan, Randel Richner discovered she was interested not only in providing patients great care but in being their advocate. Today, she remains focused on improving health policy and health care for the future.

Karin Dove

Preventing Sickness and Injury: An Occupational Passion

Karin Dove, MPH '16, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Karin Dove knows the public health work she does will impact large populations of people. Data is her key tool in that endeavor, and translating the value of that data is one or her biggest challenges and joys.

Gabriel Lee Johnson

Liberation through Public Health

Gabriel Lee Johnson

“As I interpreted for my mother throughout the recovery process, the inaccessible language used by doctors and nurses illuminated the challenges my mother and many others face as deaf individuals within the health system,” Johnson says.

Elizabeth Mosley

Works in Progress: Population Health Is Personal

Elizabeth Ann Mosley

That year in Uganda was “the most challenging and the most fulfilling year of my life,” Mosley says. “And as much as it got me interested in global health issues, it reaffirmed my desire also to be deeply engaged here in the States with public health issues.”

Hannah Eck

Communicating Health Data to Everyday People

Hannah Eck

The subject of our latest Field Notes, Health Behavior and Health Education student Hannah Eck, talks about her health communications internship with JOOL Health, and her passion for translating research for the general public.