While reconnecting over free breakfast and coffee, students, faculty and staff learned about some of the support services that the college’s Office of Research provides, and student organizations shared overviews of their missions.
“The ‘Welcome Back’ event was a great opportunity to showcase what our organization is about, and it was a great way to gain new members,” says Reginald Scott, a fourth-year undergraduate student of public health sociology and president of the Multicultural Public Health Student Association. “We got a lot of exposure.”
Attendees of the event also had the opportunity to donate warm clothing to children and families in southern Ohio affected by the opioid crisis.
The clothing drive was organized by the Public Health Student Leadership Council (PHSLC) and their faculty adviser, William Miller, MD, PhD, MPH, chair of the Division of Epidemiology at CPH.
Members of the Public Health Student Leadership Council deliver warm clothing to the Scioto County courthouse. The donations went to families affected by the opioid crisis.
“It was amazing to get all of the donations we needed on the list,” says Elli Schwartz, a second-year undergraduate student of environmental public health and co-chair of PHSLC. “It was so inspiring to see our college give back.”
Together, the CPH community collected clothing donations for 64 children and parents. Members of PHSLC drove the donations to Portsmouth, Ohio, later that week.
“They were shocked,” Schwartz says. “There were community members helping us unload the cars with the bags. The bailiff that works at the drug court, you could tell he was getting emotional because he didn’t expect it all.”
