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 | 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 16, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training
This summer, one of my students explained her interest in public health by describing a personal experience. Before that summer, she volunteered at a local non-profit and saw young women her age getting help with sexually transmitted diseases and other health...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Mar 9, 2011 | 0 All, Certificates
One way to learn more about public health before you commit to a degree program is to complete a certificate program. These programs allow you to take some of the same academic courses that students enrolled in degree programs take, only not as many of them. You can...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 23, 2011 | 0 All, Careers, Degrees
You may have heard of the popular series of books that started with Eat this, Not That. In general, they compare various aspects of foods in the same category, e.g., the fat content of salads at different restaurants or the number of calories in different hamburgers....
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 9, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Careers, Degrees, Univerities/Schools/Programs
If I remember correctly (and it has been awhile), this morning on the Today Show (yes, the Today Show), First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged people looking for jobs to find industries that are growing and get training in those fields. This could be at a local...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 2, 2011 | 0 All, Degrees, Examples of Public Health
&A on Facebook If you like CSI (the TV show) or solving mysteries (in general), become a disease detective or epidemiologist. Still not sure what an epidemiologist does? Start with this interactive case study: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/detective.html....
