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Alumni spotlight: Sarah Collins

Sarah Collins, Ph.D., is an assistant teaching professor and the undergraduate community health program director in the Department of Health, Sport & Exercise Sciences, or HSES, at the University of Kansas. She earned her Bachelor of Public Health, Master of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences and Ph.D. in…

SBS student spotlight: Acquel Allen-Mitchell

Acquel Allen-Mitchell, M.P.H., M.B.A., is a Ph.D. candidate in public health, social and behavioral sciences. She spent more than five years working in the nonprofit sector. Her primary research focus surrounds addressing environmental injustice and mitigating health disparities. Allen-Mitchell has her B.A. in Medicine, Health, and Society from Vanderbilt University…

Student Spotlight: Cary Carr

Cary Carr, MPH, is a PhD candidate in public health, social and behavioral sciences. Cary has more than five years working in the nonprofit sector and is passionate about violence prevention. Her primary research focus is addressing violence against sex workers. Cary has her BA in journalism from Temple University…

Karah Mechlowitz Awarded Boren Fellowship

Karah Mechlowitz Karah Mechlowitz, a public health doctoral student in the social and behavioral sciences concentration at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, has received a Boren Fellowship to study Afaan Oromo in Ethiopia for six months. Boren Awards are an initiative…

Karen Awura-Adjoa Ronke Coker featured in Go Global ED podcast

Karen Awura-Adjoa Ronke Coker Karen Awura-Adjoa Ronke Coker, a public health doctoral student in the One Health concentration at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, was interviewed for the Go Global ED Podcast, which is produced by the U.S. Department of Education’s International and Foreign…

Student spotlight: Jennifer Maizel

Jennifer Maizel, M.P.H., CHES, is a new Ph.D. student in public health: social and behavioral sciences at UF’s College of Public Health and Health Professions. Her research interests focus on the psychosocial aspects of diabetes, primarily Type 1, which she was diagnosed with at the age of 13. Specifically, she…