With a focus on nutritional epidemiology, Farhia Mohamed aims to prevent diseases and promote health through research, education and policy. She served as the Nutritional Sciences chair in the Public Health Student Assembly Senate for the 2024-2025 academic year, highlighting her leadership and commitment to her field.
Mrinalini Gupta studied issues related to water and waterborne disease. Mrinalini recently worked with the Center of Molecular Dynamics Nepal, a prominent nongovernmental institution dedicated to public health innovation and intervention research, to advance projects related to vaccine campaign assessment, zoonotic disease surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, and mapping of key populations.
Karly Miller has known since elementary school that she wanted to help people live happier, healthier lives through informed nutrition. Her drive for public health and passion for sports led her to the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where she found an outpouring of support from program directors.
As a student in the Global Health Epidemiology program at Michigan Public Health, Allison Baumgartner is taking the lead in tackling some of the most pressing health challenges in low and middle-income countries. Over spring break, she traveled with 14 of her classmates to Grenada, a trip organized by the Public Health Action Support Team. Then, she spent eight weeks in Araihazar, Bangladesh, during her summer internship and research collaboration with the University of Chicago Research Bangladesh.
Lala Sri Fadila, MPH ’24, grew up on the Indonesian island of Bangka in an environment where quality education opportunities were unevenly distributed. Now, she will graduate in May from the University of Michigan School of Public Health with a Master of Public Health in Nutritional Sciences.
Michael Mastrosimone struggled to succeed in college, and he began believing that higher education was not meant for him. Now, he is on track to graduate from the online MPH program in Population and Health Sciences from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He shares the motivations, challenges and moments of revelation that have shaped his path in the field of public health.