CPHHS Professor Ellen Smit saw the All of Us Journey event as the perfect opportunity to share a hands-on experience with her students, who are learning about public health surveillance in the classroom. She says it demonstrated the importance of using public health data and how critical participant recruitment is to the research process.
Hayley is interested in how the world works around us.
“We are trying to change the stigma of being overweight and the negative effect that can have,” Tyler Chase, club president and a senior majoring in Nutrition, says. “Being healthy isn’t about reaching the finish line or having a specific body. It’s a behavior that you can incorporate no matter how much you weigh.”
“Being in school gave me the sense that I could do something more,” Priscila said. “It gave me so much value.”
Health Promotion and Health Behavior Ph.D. candidate Coral Cotto-Negrón knows that Beavers Give a Dam. The sexual violence prevention program is the focus of her dissertation research with Assistant Professor Jessica Gorman.
CPHHS Public Health student Greg Heinonen will be traveling to Washington, D.C., in April to participate in the 22nd annual “Posters on the Hill,” which allows him to present his research to national lawmakers.