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High school students gain health care experience with Project HOPE
October 4, 2016 by
Asked if she was squeamish at the sight of blood, DaNeil Jolley was given scrubs and guided to a dimly lit room that smelled noticeably of cleaner, where she was about to watch a laparoscopic surgery. At just 16 years old, this was Jolley’s first day as an intern in the surgical unit at Samaritan…
[Read more]MPH Graduate Lands Prestigious CDC Internship
June 13, 2016 by
About a month before graduating, Harry Daniels-Schatz got some exciting news: he’d been selected for a prestigious Pathways Internship from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Harry will work this summer at the CDC and National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health’s Spokane Research Laboratory. He’ll be helping research the impact of stress…
[Read more]MPH Students See Health Policy at Work in Olympia
April 4, 2016 by
EWU students from the Master of Public Health (MPH) program traveled to the Washington state capitol on Feb. 16-17 to meet with a range of lawmakers and health policy officials who are involved in the legislative process for statewide public health policy issues. State Rep. Marcus Riccelli (D-Spokane), who teaches MPH’s Advanced Health Policy seminar…
[Read more]MPH Student Aids in Windstorm Emergency Response
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MPH student Jared O’Connor says he didn’t get much sleep in the wake of the epic windstorm that swept through Spokane and North Idaho on November 17th, 2015. That’s because he was up in the early hours of the morning and late into the night updating a Google Map he’d developed that showed Spokane area…
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