By Adrianne Robertson Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, contact tracing has become a household term. Yet, there still seems to be a bit of haze around what it is. The Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, in collaboration with Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and the Marion County Public Health Department, has received… Read more »
By Crystal Jones Mark Back, MPH’15 knew when he graduated from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health that he would like to stay engaged with the program. At Indiana Donor Network, where he serves as the Manager of Marketing and Communications, he has done just that. For the past three semesters, his department has… Read more »
By Crystal Jones Asad Zaman, MHA’12, has served as the Director of Transplant Services for three years at the Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Prior to the pandemic, most of Zaman’s meetings revolved around regulatory awareness and readiness for his team’s collaborative pediatric transplant programs. Zaman was prepared to shift… Read more »
By Crystal Jones Alumni Career Profile: Janet Henderson Master of Healthcare Administration, 1994 Janet Henderson graduated from the Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program in 1994 before successfully launching a healthcare administration career in Indiana, Texas, and Illinois. Crystal Jones, Director of Development & Alumni Relations, spoke with Henderson to learn about what inspired her… Read more »
By Adrianne Robertson Michelle Martin, a Health Services Management student at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, is currently working as an office supervisor in the Radiology Department at the IU Health Simon Cancer Center. Since early March when the COVID-19 pandemic ensued, Martin said the radiology department at IU Health has… Read more »
By Crystal Jones The IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health Alumni Board is pleased to welcome new alumni board officers and board members. Together, the board will be leading alumni engagement activities through the 2020-21 school year. This year, the following individuals will be serving as officers: Elizabeth Bowman, MPH 2014 – Alumni… Read more »
By Adrianne Robertson Dr. Joshua Vest, professor and vice chair of health policy and management at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and several researchers in the Center for Health Policy provided evidence-based recommendations to the Marion County Public Health Department on the form and key components of a phased reopening plan…. Read more »
By Samantha Childress In addition to their typical responsibilities of conducting telephone visits with their patients and working to enroll new patients in the Diabetes Impact Project – Indianapolis Neighborhoods (DIP-IN) program, Eskenazi community health workers (CHWs) have assisted patients in other ways during COVID-19. In response to the pandemic, they served as “Way Finders,”… Read more »
By Adrianne Robertson A new study led by Dr. Brian Dixon, associate professor and director of public health informatics at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, found that outbreak detection and disease control may be improved by simplified, semi-automated reporting of notifiable diseases to public health authorities (PHA). The objective of the… Read more »
By Adrianne Robertson During the summer following her freshman year at IUPUI, Luz Machuca traveled abroad to Salamanca, Spain for six weeks. There, she met Haley, a student enrolled at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health who was majoring in community health. After talking with her new friend, Luz wanted to learn… Read more »