Water Quality

Alextia Armstrong, MPH '19, earned an MPH from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences.

A Love for People and the Planet

Alextia Armstrong, MPH '19

Alextia Armstrong earned an MPH in Environmental Health Sciences in the Environment, Sustainability, and Heath program. She interned at the Ann Arbor Water Treatment Plant, where she conducted water quality tests, analyzed data, and worked on a sustainability project with City Hall.

Clara Schriemer

Rooted in a Family History of Health Work

Clara Schriemer

Clara Schriemer discusses a path to global epidemiology sparked by her physician parents and piqued by public health professionals and field experience.

John Meeker

Walking Beans, Hair, and Reproductive Samples: From Pesticides to Public Health

John Meeker

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.