by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 6, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training
When searching for public health training, you may need to look beyond departments or degrees with the specific topic in the title. Some public health degrees are general, with specific concentrations or minors. For example, one of the doctoral level nutrition...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 5, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Since 1995, the American Public Health Association has coordinated a National Public Health Week during the first full week of April. The goal of the week is to raise awareness of public health issues and educate and motivate the public, policymakers, health...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 4, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Last Saturday, Kaiser Health News reported on one way that health consultants are benefitting from last year’s federal health care reform law. In this case, health professionals are seeking support for the development of new accountable care organizations or...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 4, 2011 | 0 All
In my business and organizational theory courses, I was taught that efforts requiring more than one person could benefit from management or business principles. For example, once responsibilities are divided among different people, money changes hands (or accounts) or...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 1, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
A central tenet of health behavior and health communication research is the full engagement of communities, called community-based participatory research or CBPR. CBPR at its best involves researchers working with community leaders to determine their health...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Mar 31, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Normally, I don’t even hint at condoning laziness…and, I haven’t really changed :). Meet The Lazy Environmentalist, Josh Dorfman. He found a creative and easily accessible approach to informing and promoting green choices. His latest blog entry...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Mar 30, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training
Some (very special and fabulous) colleges or universities offer undergraduate degrees in public health. Students at those schools (or who transfer to those schools) have a great opportunity to train in public health before graduate school. This training is a great way...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Mar 29, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Enrichment Opportunities, Fellowships, Internships, Jobs, Z Misc
The National Cancer Institute has a great program that leverages math and analytical expertise: The Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program or EBP. Some key program characteristics: National studies International components, allowing study of unusual exposures or...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Mar 28, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Nutrition studies link diet (as in what a person eats) to diseases or health conditions. As an example, a recent 1250 AM WTMA story features a University of Arizona study linking inadequate diet to anemia in postmenopausal women. Copied from the website: (TUCSON,...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Mar 27, 2011 | 0 All, Admissions
Today, I searched for “personal statement” in Twitter and found many very recent laments about the difficulty of writing one. Many people find the open-ended nature of these statements daunting…or just a plain old pain in the you know what. One trick...
