Earlier this year, the White House announced its plan to invest $7 billion from the American Rescue Plan to hire and train public health workers in response to COVID-19. The need for a more robust public health workforce became apparent at the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic in early 2020. The billion-dollar investment will… Read more »
From PhD to Pandemic: Alumna Shares COVID-19 Impact
By Crystal Jones Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Shirley Payne, MPH’11, has balanced her role as an adjunct faculty member at IU Bloomington with a job transition at the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH). In July 2020, she graduated with her Ph.D. in Health Behavior, her fourth degree from Indiana University. In each of these… Read more »
Alumnus Encourages Others to Embrace Communication Skills in Public Health
By Crystal Jones When Greg Budney, MPH’11 completed his capstone course during his undergraduate program at Butler University in public relations, he began to think he might have chosen the wrong career path. “At Butler, you had to run a public relations campaign, and my client was the Butler University Health Center,” Budney said. “They… Read more »
Kreg Gruber Leads Health System through COVID-19
Leading in Health Care By Maggie Scroop Beacon Health System CEO, and IUPUI Alumnus Kreg Gruber, reflects back on a year like no other. He offers his perspective and advice as a healthcare leader, as he uses the learnings of last year to transform healthcare. Key Learnings “It was mid-March and I was at home… Read more »
Students Express Thanks for Scholarship Donations (Part 3)
By Catherine Jeffery Tyler Cunningham 2020 Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient BSPH in Environmental Health Science Tyler Cunningham came to IUPUI in fall of 2016, originally as a chemistry major. He met someone who was an environmental health science major and they told him about the program. He knew it was exactly what he wanted to do…. Read more »
Students Express Thanks for Scholarship Donations (Part 2)
By Catherine Jeffery Micaela Gaviola 2020 May’s Family RISE Scholarship Recipient BSPH Community Health & Epidemiology Micaela Gaviola is currently a double major in community health and epidemiology. After her freshman year, she loved all of the support she received in public health and how applicable each course was to life. “With epidemiology, even though… Read more »
Students Express Thanks for Scholarship Donations
By Catherine Jeffery Leah Amstutz 2020 FSPH Graduate Scholarship Recipient Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health Leah Amstutz applied for the MPH program the summer she started medical school, and received the FSPH Graduate Scholarship last year. She is pursuing an MPH degree to help her be more aware of the social determinants… Read more »
Establishing Contact Tracing for Indiana: Alumna Shares Her Story
By Adrianne Robertson Nicole Stone, a 2016 graduate of the MPH in Epidemiology program at IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, played an integral role in establishing contact tracing for Indiana and continues to make an impact on the state’s COVID-19 response. She served full time on COVID-19 activities from February 2020, before… Read more »
Alumna Supports COVID-19 Response as a Traveling Epidemiologist
By Crystal Jones In June 2020, Andrea Radford, MPH’10, learned about a contract epidemiology position in Florida. As a public health professional who was actively following social distancing protocols, she decided to use her vacation time to serve as the Cancer Control Strategic Partnerships Manager at the American Cancer Society. After speaking it over with her… Read more »
Get Involved in a Study on Food-related Work and Health
Researchers at Indiana University and the University of Washington are interviewing people working in food service, delivery, or provision to understand their work experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. People working in the food industry (groceries, restaurants, delivery, factories) during COVID have had a higher risk of getting the illness. Through this study, researchers are aiming… Read more »