Alumni Spotlight on John Billington
May 20, 2013
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: alumni mph hsmp
Alumni Spotlight on John Billington, program officer for health policy at the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Read more »Alumni Spotlight on Sheetal and Vikas Ghayal
May 1, 2013
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Alumni MHA
The MHA program is a family tradition for the Ghayal family. Originally from Palatine, Ill., siblings Sheetal ’04 and Vikas ‘07 both chose to continue their education at the College of Public Health studying health administration.
Alumni Spotlight on Jennifer Ludwin
March 27, 2013
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Alumni, MPH, HBHP
In 2009, Jen Ludwin was a graduate student in the Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) program at The Ohio State University. Shortly after beginning the program, Ludwin became critically ill from H1N1 influenza A, which caused a pandemic that same year.
Alumni Spotlight on Jennifer Dyer
February 22, 2013
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Alumni, PEP, MPH
CPH alumna Jennifer Dyer created apps to automate text reminders for diabetic teens to check their insulin levels.
Read more »Alumni Spotlight on Mark Conselyea
January 29, 2013
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Alumni, MHA, HSMP
As an associate executive director at The Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Mark Conselyea leads the $1 billion project to build a new cancer hospital, scheduled to open in 2014.
Read more »Alumni Spotlight on Stephanie Taylor
December 17, 2012
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Alumni, Public Health
Stephanie Taylor has spent the past 5 year as an epidemiologist at Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency in Redding, California. In her position, Taylor monitors data from a variety of surveillance systems and provides it to staff, stakeholders, and the public. She also works with staff to develop surveillance reports on several relevant public health topics such as deaths due to lun
Read more »Alumni Spotlight on Erin Shaffer
November 1, 2012
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Alumni
As a department administrator in the Regional Operations Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, Erin Shaffer, a 2010 MHA alum, manages the operations of 15 ambulatory multi-specialty centers the Cleveland Clinic owns across Northeast Ohio.
Read more »Alumni Spotlight on Jen Morel
September 25, 2012
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories:
As the employee wellness coordinator for the City of Columbus, Jen (Luca) Morel coordinates the Healthy Columbus Program for the city’s 8,000 employees. The program provides a variety of opportunities for employees and their families to be active, make good nutrition choices, quit tobacco, control diabetes, and get health screenings and flu shots.
Alumni Spotlight on Vedette Gavin
September 20, 2012
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Saint Luke’s Foundation, Alumni
As a Saint Luke’s Foundation Community Health Fellow at the Case Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Vedette Gavin works to improve community health by addressing the areas of healthy eating and active living in 3 adjacent inner-city neighborhoods in Cleveland. She leads a community-based initiative called Healthy Eating & Active Living (HEAL).
Read more »Alumni Spotlight on Kyle Dorsey
September 20, 2012
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Health Care, Alumni
As a health care administrator at Duke University in Durham, N.C., Kyle Dorsey, a 2009 MHA alumnus manages a large multidisciplinary ambulatory clinic that serves advanced heart and lung failure patients. His primary responsibilities include providing administrative direction, coordination, fiscal planning, and oversight.
Read more »Alumni Spotlight on Sheryl Milz
September 20, 2012
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Alumni
Sheryl A. (Moritz) Milz, PhD, CIH, is chair and associate professor, at the University of Toledo in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She is also co-director of the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health. She has worked at the University of Toledo / Medical College of Ohio since 2001. (The Medical College of Ohio merged with the University of Toledo in 2006.)
Read more »Alumni Spotlight on Ellen Yard
September 20, 2012
by Colleen Herr
| Alumni Affairs and Outreach Coordinator
Categories: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health, Alumni
Ellen Yard, MPH, PhD, is an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her career at the CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer in 2009.
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