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Summer 2025
CPH: Year in photos
Look back on the highlights from the 2024-25 academic year
By Kristen Mitchell
Class of 2025 Undergraduate Student Ambassadors pose for a photo in front of Cunz Hall.
From saying “O-H!” with public health alumni at our Homecoming tailgate to celebrating the achievements of our student researchers, it has been a busy and exciting year at the College of Public Health. Take a look back at highlights from the 2024-25 academic year.
We welcomed new students to our college community at orientation in August. There is nothing like the excitement and potential of a new academic year!
The college celebrated a night of learning, connection and exploring the critical importance of policy in public health alongside author Daniel Dawes. More than 300 people from throughout the university and Columbus community joined us for our “Changing the Conversation” lecture event in October.
Say cheese! Our MPH students and Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs Amy Ferketich smiled for a photo at the CPH Homecoming gathering in October. We loved seeing alumni, students, faculty, staff and their families come together in celebration.
Both of the college’s Dr. Hoods — Professor Darryl B. Hood and Assistant Professor Robert Hood — pictured together at the CPH Homecoming tailgate.
Master of Health Administration students enjoyed the opportunity to network and learn from alumni at the 2024 Health Services Management Institute. The event, sponsored and organized by the HSMP Alumni Society, featured experts in health care technology and health care administration.
Thirty-one CPH students graduated at the end of autumn semester, culminating in a commencement celebration at the Schottenstein Center. Our public health grads included 19 graduate and 12 undergraduate students.
Local government and academic experts led a meaningful conversation about gun violence as a public health issue in February, discussing the challenges and policy approaches to preventing deaths from firearms. Moderator Laura Prater, an assistant professor in the College of Public Health, said she is confident “public health will prevail in this fight” despite resistance to gun law reform.
MHA students hosted the annual First-Year Health Administration Case Competition and Leadership Development Symposium, which brought together students from across the country for two days of competition, networking and skill building. (Photo: James DeCamp)
CPH students presented their novel research at the annual Graduate Student Poster Day in April. PhD student Jacob Kamholz, pictured here, was recognized for his excellent poster on emergency medical service advocacy.
Ohio State’s Executive Vice President and Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda toured Cunz Hall in April. Jiyoung Lee, professor and chair of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, showed him around the laboratory space on the fourth floor.
Undergraduate students who wrapped up their capstone projects during spring semester presented posters in Cunz Hall about their experiences and what they learned.
The Class of 2025 gathered with family, friends, faculty and staff at the college’s Pre-Commencement Ceremony on May 3.
Then-incoming Dean Paula Song delivered the keynote address at the college’s Pre-Commencement Ceremony. She spoke about the surprising paths life can take and highlighted important public health achievements in history.
The friends and family of our graduating students came to Pre-Commencement in full force to celebrate the achievements of their loved ones — every chair in the Ohio Union Performance Hall was full. Proud is an understatement!
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Patrick Louchouarn surprised Interim Dean Karla Zadnik with kind words at an end-of-year celebration for CPH faculty and Staff. Zadnik led the college for two years as interim dean.