Eleven scholarships had been awarded
September 27, 2022 – Washington, D.C. – The Society for Public Well being Schooling (SOPHE) proudly broadcasts the recipients of its winter/spring 2022 twenty first Century Scholarships. The scholarships present monetary assist to college students and practitioners to attend SOPHE’s Advocacy Summit, October 21-24 in Washington, D.C.
SOPHE awarded scholarships to 10 college students and one well being training practitioner following the award committee’s impartial evaluate of all of the submitted purposes.
twenty first Century Pupil Students
Delanie Johnson is an undergraduate scholar on the College of Wisconsin–La Crosse learning public well being & neighborhood well being training. She is president of the College of Wisconsin–La Crosse’s collegiate chapter of Eta Sigma Gamma (Beta Phi).
Lindsay Keeling is pursuing a twin grasp’s in public well being and social work at New Mexico State College. She is a graduate assistant whose analysis focuses on adversarial childhood experiences, suicidology, and evidence-based practices that construct resilience and protecting elements in opposition to trauma.
Elizabeth Kleitz is a junior scholar of well being science at Truman State College in Kirksville, Missouri. She plans to check public well being in drugs upon commencement.
Surya Madhavi is a scholar within the grasp of public well being program on the College of New Haven. Previous to the pandemic, which impressed her curiosity in public well being, she was a dentist in India. She believes that individuals must know the significance of well being.
Pradeep Rajbhandari is a graduate of public well being on the College of New Haven. He’s a WeEmbody Lab Fellow on the College of New Haven, a corporation that paves means for its fellows to boost their voices for well being fairness. He’s advocacy fanatic and a robust believer in reaching reforms in well being by means of advocacy.
Greenlee Rigby is a senior at Truman State College. Following commencement in Could, she plans to attend regulation college and specialize in well being regulation. Her curiosity is in adjudicated youth well being and drug coverage. Greenlee’s well being analysis is comprised of inter-professional collaboration, youth well being, and catastrophe response.
Could Ubeku is a postgraduate scholar on the College of New Haven, Connecticut, and a fellow of the College of New Haven–WeEmbody Lab Well being Analysis and Advocacy program. She can also be an award-winning well being fairness and social justice advocate working to affect stakeholders’ choices to implement insurance policies that battle well being disparities and provides each individual the best to entry healthcare.
Lauren Witt is a current graduate from the College of Wisconsin-La Crosse the place she earned her bachelor of science in public well being and neighborhood well being. She is taking a spot yr to achieve skilled expertise earlier than attending graduate college subsequent fall. She is advocacy chair of the Minnesota SOPHE Chapter.
Joshua Yudkin is a scholar at The College of Texas Well being whose analysis portfolio primarily focuses on quantifying and assessing sociocultural elements in weak populations. He was awarded a Fulbright analysis grant to proceed his analysis creating new nationwide healthcare insurance policies and methods aimed toward illness prevention in Colombia.
Cherrylee Sherry, MPH, MCHES®, is a Wholesome Methods Supervisor within the Minnesota Division of Well being and a member of the SOPHE Minnesota Chapter and nationwide SOPHE the place she serves on the board of trustees.
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