by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Jun 5, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Enrichment Opportunities, Mentoring
For the past week, my staff and I have been completing the final stages of preparation for the arrival of 30 (primarily minority and disadvantaged) undergraduate college students to arrive our campus. We (as in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 27, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Examples of Public Health
The Public Health Problem Some of our manufacturing and other processes contaminate soil with chemicals and other by-products. To motivate people to reduce or prevent soil pollution, we need evidence linking contaminates to negative impacts on health. Evidence is also...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 18, 2011 | 0 All, Degrees
Doctor of Public Health degrees (DrPH) are the Rodney Dangerfields of doctoral programs. They don’t get enough respect! Many people have never heard of them and if they have, they don’t understand the difference between a DrPH and a PhD. While you need to...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 18, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Enrichment Opportunities
Ok, not quite. That so very briefly said, we have to start our biostatistics somewhere. Why not summer camp?! Here is a summer mathematics program for high school students at the University of Utah. Students explore and learn math and have fun, a great way to have a...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 4, 2011 | 0 All, Certificates
New high school or college graduates are not the only folks who benefit from public health training. Some programs are specifically designed for people who are already working in public health in some way, i.e., public health practitioners. The additional training may...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 27, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Enrichment Opportunities
Yes, summers are for fun, friends and family! And, everyone needs a break from whatever they do on a regular basis (e.g., school or work or…).Why not have fun AND learn more about a public health field, meet new people, get ready for advanced training or expand...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 20, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Examples of Public Health
Some people pursue public health careers because they want to help people with a specific disease or have a real impact on diseases that affect the health of many people. For example, they may want to help prevent diabetes because their father suffered from the...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 18, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Examples of Public Health
[See, some students actually enjoy math and biostatistics!!] Today’s online The Mercury, the student newspaper of the University of Texas-Dallas (UTD), features a story about a UTD undergraduate student accepted directly into a biostatistics PhD program at the...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 13, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Degrees
Sometimes, students interested in health care management ask me about the difference between an MHA and an MBA degree. Usually, they are trying to decide between the two or whether it is worthwhile to earn both. There are many differences and similarities between...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Apr 12, 2011 | 0 All, Careers, Mentoring
The Office of Science Education at the National Institutes of Health provides an online, interactive program to help junior high and high school students “explore health and medical science careers”: LifeWorks. Still looking for a career? While some of...
