Over Spring Break, UTC MPH students along with UTC undergraduate students accompanied MPH Program Director Dr. Amir Alakaam to Costa Rica to experience the food and culture there. Students learned global diversity through the context of food, cuisine, dance, and nature. An overview of the history of food: sociocultural, geographic, religious and ethnic influences of…
MPH in San Salvador, Bahamas
This past Spring Break, 5 MPH students along with MPH Assistant Professor Dr. Dawn Ford went to San Salvador, Bahamas where they spoke to the students at the elementary school about proper nutrition as well as backyard gardening! They also conducted soil testing, canvased around the island to gage the islander’s nutritional intake, helped with gardening…
PHSA: Public Health Week
This year during Public Health Week, The Public Health Student Association (PHSA) held a weeklong social media campaign to showcase the different daily topics. The topics included Violence Prevention, Community, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Mental Health, Rural Health, Accessibility, Food and Nutrition. Students created social media posts and interviewed different community partners that focused on…
MPH Alumni Spotlight- Jasmine Pulliam
Jasmine Pulliam graduated from the UTC MPH program in May 2021. She now works as a clinical research coordinator at Emory University SOM in their Neurology Department. Her current role involves working with participants in Georgia at the Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center to help discover biomarkers that predict Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Jasmine…
Faculty Spotlight: Emma Sampson
My name is Emma Sampson and I serve as the Program Manager for the Master of Public Health Program. I graduated from UTC with my bachelors in Exercise Science and then proceeded to obtain my MPH with a concentration in chronic disease prevention and control at UTC. I was part of the first cohort to…