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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
By Crystal Jones Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Allison Miller, BS’15, MPH’17, has participated in three separate deployments for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In each position, she has relied on the education she received through the MPH in Epidemiology program at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and experience she… 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 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 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 »
By Crystal Jones Emily Sargent, a 2018 JD-MPH alumna of IUPUI, discovered emergency preparedness as a career path years ago, and has since been preparing for a situation like the COVID-19 pandemic. Sargent is a member of the Division of Emergency Preparedness at the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH). She is responsible for managing… Read more »
By Crystal Jones Brandon Lewis is pursuing his Masters of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. In February, he joined the Indiana Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) as a WIC Nutritionist. WIC is a public health nutrition program whose mission is to… Read more »