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How does biostatistics keep doctoral student Stephen Salerno connected to his family’s passion for feeding people? He makes sure every research and volunteer experience is a chance to feed local and global communities with accessible data that helps alleviate and prevent health problems and health disparities.
When Pahriya Ashrap sees people in need, she imagines opportunities to help—whether she’s in an Ann Arbor lab or online with a math mentee on the other side of the world. Her simple, powerful dream of making a positive impact has motivated her on her long road to public health, where she works to build bridges of culture and science.
Inspired by the community that raised her, Cindy Le is determined to help mitigate health disparities in her hometown of Camden, New Jersey, and others like it.
Personal connections and community support can keep researchers going on tough days in the lab. Evan Hill draws inspiration from those connections as he discovers more about breast cancer and obesity and shares those discoveries broadly.
When master's student Jasmine Brown interned in Detroit at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, she found she was able to broaden her knowledge of the health care industry and apply her skills to help solve challenges from a new perspective.
For her 2018 summer internship, Michigan Public Health master's student Jessica Uruchima traveled to Ecuador - the country of her birth - to collaborate on an international pilot study examining mother and child health outcomes.