Jena Bauman Adams '94
Jena Bauman Adams is a Project Director in the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School located in Shrewsbury, MA, where she also resides with her husband and two daughters.
Ben (Walter) Baskin
Ben is married, has two boys, 5 and 8 years old. He is living in Ballston Spa, NY. He is working at the NYS Department of Health in Albany as a health educator, mostly in childhood lead poisoning prevention. He writes that he: "would love to hear from Joanne Wood, Kathy Washienko, Nim Ha, Lonnie Barnette, and other classmates.”
Denise Charron-Prochownik, PhD, RN, CPNP
Denise has been inducted as a “Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing” (FAAN) in November ‘09.
Jennifer Cash ‘96
Jennifer and her partner, Andrea Steele (UM School of Social Work, '03), continue their respective careers in clinical social work and tobacco control in the lovely Twin Cities of Minnesota. She writes that their: "biggest news of the year (and possibly our lives) was the birth of our daughter Claire Elizabeth on January 24. Claire is a very happy baby and is just beginning to let her mommies get some much needed sleep!"
Anya-Victoria Day '07
Anya has changed jobs and now works for Altarum Institute in Ann Arbor as a Health Information Analyst.
Rachael Dombrowski
Rachael will be attending the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health DrPH program in leadership this coming fall. After working on public health policy and programs in Washington, DC for the past three years the time has come to continue her public health studies. Rachael looks forward to continuing her public health education and to relocating to Chicago but will miss her DC friends and co-workers at SOPHE (Society for Public Health Education)
Jessica Jacobs, ‘05
After working at Fertile Hope for two and a half years, Jessica started at the American-Italian Cancer Foundation in March 2008. She currently manages the Mobile Mammography Program.
Nancy Hayward ‘06
Nancy was recently appointed to the Ingham County Board of Health and will now fill a seat through December, 2011. This board advises the Ingham County Board of Commissioners on issues that relate to public health problems, public health policy, and public health planning. It also provides a broad-based focal point of community member and health professional input to the Commissioners, Human Services Committee, and the Health Department on a full range of health care programs and issues in Ingham County. The Ingham County Board of Health also serves as the Sanitary Appeals Board, pursuant to the Ingham County Sanitary Ordinance.
Portia Jackson ‘04
Portia is working on her DrPH in Health Services at UCLA, and recently passed her qualifying exams. She hopes to do her dissertation research on maximizing the sustainability of health-related investments by private entities, including corporations and foundations.
Alicia T. Luchowski, MPH
Alicia is the Director of the Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Program at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Washington, DC, and can be reached at aluchowski@acog.org
Tricia Piechowski, MPH, MSW, MA ‘06
Tricia is working at the Community Engagement Program at UM's Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)as a Clinical Research Liaison creating more community-university partnerships in health research. She just bought her first house and is in the process of planning her wedding to Cedric Whitney for Halloween, 2009.
Geneva M. (Edwards) Porter, '96
Geneva was married on July 11, 2009 to Shay L. Porter. She returned to the Cook County Department of Public Health (Illinois) in a new position in April 2009, as the Assistant Director, Prevention Services Unit.
Monica L. Powell-White, ‘98
Monica moved to Northern California (Stockton) from Chicago, Illinois in April 2008 with her six-year old daughter Lauren, after accepting a position with San Joaquin County Public Health Services. In this position, she will be coordinating the Training and Staff Development activities for the county's 300 employees.
Rebecca Riseman ‘95
Rebecca works primarily as a Family Nurse Practitioner in Oakland, California and also works per diem in Urgent Care at San Francisco General Hospital. She lives in Oakland with her husband and their two young children.
Julia Schlueter '07
Julia married Jim Childers on June 13, 2009 in their home town of Denver, Colorado. Many SPH alums helped the couple celebrate!
Sara Schmidt ‘08
Sarah is a Field Organizer for Amnesty International in San Francisco. One of the main campaigns she is working on is the right to health and healthcare. Prior to this position she was coordinating an HIV prevention research project in Zambia with Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Group.
Michelle Segar, PhD, MPH ('97)
Michelle
was living in Spain with her family until May 2009. Her work on facilitating sustainable exercise in midlife women was featured in Prevention (January 2009) and Women's Health (March 2009) magazines, and she was recently interviewed by womensradio.com. (To hear her interview go to http://www.womensradio.com/content/templates/?a=3194&z=11). To learn more about her exercise motivation research on midlife women contact her at fitness@umich.edu.
Colleen Streeter, ‘01
Colleen and her husband Jeff welcomed their first baby, a boy named Everett, on October 30, 2008.
James Thur, ’71
James Thur retired after serving for 27 years as Executive Director of the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board in Fairfax, Virginia. He accepted an appointment as the Regional Director for the Northern Region of the Virgnia Wounded Warrior Program operated by the Virginia Department of Veterans Services.
Leseliey Rose Welch, MPH, 2004 is now the new Ryan White Part D Program Coordinator at the Michigan Department of Community Health. The Ryan White Part D Program assures the delivery of comprehensive, coordinated HIV/AIDS services to women, children, youth, and families. She also continues to teach WS350: Women and the Community, a practicum course for Women's Studies majors at University of Michigan.
Catharine Wang ‘03
Catharine Wang is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health.
Naima T. Wong, PhD, MPH ‘08
Naima started in a new position as a Research Associate with the Georgia Health Policy Center at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in September 2008.
Monica L. White (Powell) MPH ('98)
Monica has landed a new job with the Merced County Health Care Consortium as their new Executive Director. She was previously employed by San Joaquin County Public Health Services as their Training and Staff Development Coordinator. She currently resides in Atwater, CA with her seven-year old daughter Lauren.
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