Alumni Stories
ALUMNI PROFILES
Finding her path
Kate Powis left a business career behind for a life in public health.
2011 HSPH Alumni Award of Merit winners
This year’s winners worked at Bellevue Hospital, tended earthquake victims in Haiti, researched anemia on a Navajo reservation, and inspired students in Argentina.
Saving lives in the heat of battle
Christian Benjamin, MD, MPH ’96 and Michael McCarten, DO, MPH ’99 are delivering evidence-based military medicine in Afghanistan.
Health care with dignity
Alum Robert Taube helps homeless people build healthier lives—and self-esteem.
2010 Alumni Award Winners: What we know now
We asked this year’s winners: What do you know now about improving the public’s health that you didn’t when you started out in your career?
Rebuilding shattered lives
When an earthquake struck in Chile, HSPH alum Karen Anderson and the community health group she founded were the first on the scene—and they’re still there.
From patient to public health leader
As director of the Indian Health Service, HSPH alumna Yvette Roubideaux is on a quest to improve health care for American Indian and Alaska Native people.
Reining in health care costs
The making of a reformer: HSPH alumna Sarah Iselin
2009 Alumni Award of Merit winners
The School’s top prize for distinguished graduates
2008 Alumni Award of Merit winners
The School’s top prize for distinguished graduates
Community health champion
Florida’s first Surgeon General takes her message on the road