By Adrianne Robertson Carolyn Muegge, who recently earned her PhD in Epidemiology from the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and is a research scientist at the National Institute for Public Safety Health, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to study the prevalence and impact of COVID-19 on Indiana firefighters. Dr. Muegge… Read more »
By Adrianne Robertson As with most of us, 2020 has been a year of major transition for Any’e Carson, ECHO Program Coordinator within the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health ECHO Center. Late last year, life changed for Carson when she found out she was expecting a baby girl who would arrive in May… Read more »
By Crystal Jones Afsah Amin is pursuing a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology and plans to graduate in December of 2021. She immigrated from Pakistan after receiving her medical training as an anesthesiologist and decided to transition from a clinical role to a research scientist role to impact more people. As she was making… Read more »
By Crystal Jones Morgan Branning, BSHSM’20, developed a passion for elder care as a certified nursing assistant, a position she held as a student at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Branning believes that experience and the long-term care administration class she took with Professor Gary Brumitt helped her identify a meaningful… Read more »
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 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 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 During the day, 2019 MPH alumna Sonya Lawrence is a bailiff for Marshall Circuit Court in Marshall County, Indiana. Outside of the court, she serves in a different capacity, as a contact tracer at the Indiana State Department of Health. Her goal is to gain more public health experience. “As a contract… Read more »