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Three honored with 2022 ETHOS Awards

The College of Public Health honored three members of the faculty and staff who exemplify the university’s shared values and commitments to excellence, diversity and innovation as part of the second annual College of Public Health Ethics at Ohio State (ETHOS) Awards.

Scot Erbe, facilities manager and lab compliance officer, and Ashley Felix, associate professor of epidemiology, were recognized with the Excellence & Impact Award for their work embodying the principles of strong leadership in pursuit of the CPH vision and mission.

15 ways to learn more about diversity this year

The first step to becoming less biased and more open to and inclusive of people from all backgrounds is to become educated.

The College of Public Health has championed this idea through its Community of Inclusion program for students, faculty and staff, which serves to advance participants’ understanding of diversity, equity and inclusive excellence through readings, trainings and other opportunities to expand knowledge.

Get to Know: Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson

What made you decide to come to The Ohio State University?

I am originally from Detroit where there's a very striking racial disparity in preterm birth, the adverse birth outcome on which I focus. I found that Columbus’s preterm birth outcome is one of the worse in the country. There were no social epidemiologists here at Ohio State and the potential to create a social epidemiology class was appealing because a lot of students haven't been exposed to the subject discipline of social epidemiology which merges sociology and epidemiology together.

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