Health Behavior and Health Education

joeita_macfield

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.

Cindy Le

Motivated to Be the Change

Cindy Le

Inspired by the community that raised her, Cindy Le is determined to help mitigate health disparities in her hometown of Camden, New Jersey, and others like it.

Lello Guluma

Reflections on Public Health

Lello Guluma

Lello Guluma discovered her passion in public health as an undergraduate. This began her journey to delivering a speech at the graduation ceremony where she celebrated the completion of her master’s degree and the beginning of her future as a public health practitioner.

Brianna Dumas

Learning to Cook, Learning to Belong

Brianna Dumas

Economic, environmental, and social stresses disconnect us from the food we eat. Brianna Dumas works to reconnect us using a grassroots approach—good food for our community, grown by our community, supporting our community.