With free health clinic, student brings health care to Rhode Island’s underserved
Akosua Dankwah, DrPH ’22, is applying what she’s learned to help the WTL Health Clinic expand its mission.
Program to help business leaders address public health challenges
A new certificate program for business leaders will focus on why incorporating public health considerations as a key part of their work can help people, communities, and the planet—and help businesses thrive at the same time.
Students lend helping hand to India’s COVID-19 efforts
Working with a professor, a Worcester, Mass. hospital, and Indian friends and colleagues, two students helped secure desperately needed oxygen concentrators for COVID-19 patients to use at home in India.
For kids facing long hospital stays, a happier ‘reality’
February 10, 2020 – Jean Jung was sick as a kid and spent several years in and out of the hospital. She was often lonely and bored. “The day goes really slowly,” she recalled. “There’s nothing to do.”…
Student fieldwork helps anchor Worcester-based health care system in community
August 13, 2019 – Two doctor of public health (DrPH) students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health worked with UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) in Worcester, Mass. to develop an ambitious new strategy aimed at addressing…
At Women in Leadership conference, students gain advice on advancing their careers
April 16, 2014 -- Make time in your schedule for mentorship. Get over the fear of self-promotion. And by all means, learn principles of finance. These were some of the leadership lessons that nearly 100 students and alumnae…
