Category: Public Health

Research Spotlight: Olu’s Marshallese Project Professor Olugbemiga Ekundayo has been conducting a live challenge project as part of his class on social epidemiology. The project sparked when he learned from one of his students that there was an educational deficit amongst the Marshallese students of Spokane’s Shaw Middle School. Shaw Middle School employs more teachers…

MPH student Ali Norris recently attended a Healthy Equity Forum. The event centered on the continued need for support and funding of healthcare programs in Eastern Washington. Ali spoke about the importance of public health and the need for health professionals to organize in order to create a healthier community. Spokane has positive potential for…

Three second-year students of Eastern Washington University’s Masters of Public Health Department recently attended the American Public Health Association’s conference. The conference, which garnered more than 10,000 attendees, took place in Denver, Colorado, from October 29 to November 2. All three students are elected officers of the Masters of Public Health Association: Lauren Luther, president;…

Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center (EWAHEC) The newest program to join the Public Health and Health Administration Department is the Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center (EWAHEC). The EWAHEC opened at EWU in September 2015.  Their work is focused on improving the healthcare workforce, particularly in rural areas of eastern Washington.  The EWAHEC focuses…

Jennifer Day is an adjunct faculty member for MPH. She earned her Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan and, as an undergraduate, studied cultural anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Sussex. Her primary focus is global health, health inequity, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.  She has designed, implemented and evaluated…

Anna Tresidder, PhD, is an Interim Program Director and Assistant Professor Public Health. She received her PhD and MPH, with a focus in health administration and policy, from Portland State and her BS in biology from Pacific University. Her public health career started when she was in the Peace Corps. She worked in the German…

Last week, MPH student Ali Norris attended and presented at the Northwest Rural Health Conference in Seattle, Washington. Her presentation discussed data that she analyzed regarding a Diabetes Management Program in Stevens County. It was her first time presenting at a conference, and she describes it as “an amazing experience.” She met with healthcare professionals…

About a month before graduating, Harry Daniels-Schatz got some exciting news: he’d been selected for a prestigious Pathways Internship from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Harry will work this summer at the CDC and National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health’s Spokane Research Laboratory. He’ll be helping research the impact of stress…

EWU students from the Master of Public Health (MPH) program traveled to the Washington state capitol on Feb. 16-17 to meet with a range of lawmakers and health policy officials who are involved in the legislative process for statewide public health policy issues. State Rep. Marcus Riccelli (D-Spokane), who teaches MPH’s Advanced Health Policy seminar…

MPH student Jared O’Connor says he didn’t get much sleep in the wake of the epic windstorm that swept through Spokane and North Idaho on November 17th, 2015. That’s because he was up in the early hours of the morning and late into the night updating a Google Map he’d developed that showed Spokane area…