Event Description
The annual "Exploring Public Health Careers: Making the Most of Your Public Health Career" provides the opportunity for current MPH students to connect with recent graduates of the MPH program. The event includes discipline specific panels for current students and a networking reception for students and alumni. Panelists from past events have included individuals from the CDC, local health departments and hospitals, international health organizations and healthcare companies.
Exploring Public Health Careers was designed to connect you to public health professionals and to educate you on how to make the most of your career. In addition, it can help 1st year students make an informed choice when choosing their concentrations.
4:00 PM Registration
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Discipline Specific Career Panels
Health Management and Policy Panel
Environmental and Occupational Health Panel
Community Health and Prevention Panel
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Panel
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Students & Alumni Networking Reception
Registration for the panels and networking reception is required. Only SPH students may attend the panels, but all SPH alumni are invited to the Networking Reception. Please register here.
Panelists for 2015
Health Management and Policy Panel
Lauren Bruce, MPH’12
Program Coordinator, Society for Family
Planning
Amitoj Chatrath, MPH’13
Research Analyst, Independence Blue Cross
Naima Jihad, MPH’07
Medical student, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
Medicine
Phoebe Jones, MPH’14
Senior Policy Analyst, Public Policy & Association
Affairs, Independence Blue Cross
Amanda Teeple, MPH’14
Senior Specialist, Johnson & Johnson
Environmental and Occupational Health Panel
Cecilia Sara Alcala, MPH’14
ASPPH
Environmental Health Fellow, States Environmental Protection
Agency
Andrea Davis, MPH’12, CPH
Project
Manager, Firefighter Safety Culture Project, Drexel University School of Public
Health
Joshua T. Glueck, MPH’11
Project Coordinator, Berks Community Health
Center
Community Health and Prevention Panel
Jazzmin Cooper, MPH’13
Replication
Field Coordinator, DU – Center for Healing Hurt People
Quinney Harris, MPH’11
Program
Manager, The National W.I.C. Office
Latreaca Ivy, MPH ‘10
Clinical
Research Coordinator, Drexel University College of Medicine
Amelia Kermis, MPH’13
Public
Affairs Specialist, USDA-FSIS (United States Dept. of Agriculture)
Falguni Patel, MPH’14
Quantitative
Research Coordinator, DUSPH Center for Hunger-Free Communities
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Panel
M. Christina Dogbey, MPH’07
MPH
Epidemiologist Surveillance Specialist, Tuberculosis Control Program,
Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Lauren Finn, MPH’13
Surveillance
Coordinator and former CDC/CSTE Fellow, Philadelphia Department of Public
Health
Angelique Hopkins, MPH’09
Feasibility
Specialist, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bailey Ingraham Lopresto, MS’14
Biostatistician,
Christiana Care Health System
Jenna Kelly, MPH’11
KIDS
Plus Provider Analyst, Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Sana Khan
, MPH’14
Senior
Data Analyst, Health Market Science
Paul Turcotte, MPH’14
Data
Analyst, AJ Drexel Autism Center |
