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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…

Asked if she was squeamish at the sight of blood, DaNeil Jolley was given scrubs and guided to a dimly lit room that smelled noticeably of cleaner, where she was about to watch a laparoscopic surgery. At just 16 years old, this was Jolley’s first day as an intern in the surgical unit at Samaritan…

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…