Building a Culture of Wellness in Michigan Schools
Christian Mackey
Christian Mackey is a Master of Public Health student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Alumni,Nutritional Sciences Results
A Clinician's Experience, An Advocate's Perspective: Charting a Weight Inclusive Approach to Health
Kendrin Sonneville
Informed by clinical experience and the perspectives of the advocacy community, Kendrin Sonneville brings rigorous science to the pursuit of more weight inclusive approaches to health. Her work asks how we can promote health in a way that’s independent of body size, and promote health and nutrition without increasing weight bias, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating.
For Future Generations: A Diversity of Passions Propels a Military Professional forward in Public Health
Sarah Falvey
As an active duty Air Force officer, new mother, and master’s student, Sarah Falvey sees public health as a way to combine her many passions while focusing on keeping people in the military healthy.
The "Well-Behaved" Advocate: A Career in Public Health Policy
Randel Richner, MPH '90, Health Management and Policy
As a nurse in northern Michigan, Randel Richner discovered she was interested not only in providing patients great care but in being their advocate. Today, she remains focused on improving health policy and health care for the future.
Preventing Sickness and Injury: An Occupational Passion
Karin Dove, MPH '16, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
Karin Dove knows the public health work she does will impact large populations of people. Data is her key tool in that endeavor, and translating the value of that data is one or her biggest challenges and joys.
A Pattern Comes into Focus: F. DuBois Bowman's Journey to Improve Public Health
F. DuBois Bowman, MS ‘95, PhD
F. DuBois Bowman analyzes complex data in search of patterns that can help psychiatrists better understand the brain. As the incoming dean of Michigan Public Health reflects on his career, he can likewise see patterns that, while not always apparent at the time, led him to where he is today.