Month: August 2012

2013 Spring ERHD Scholarships – Now Taking Essay Submissions

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The ERHD program has been fortunate to receive public health training grant support from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from the very start of our program. Today, I am pleased to announce that we have been awarded a new public health trainingship grant to support graduate students’ tuition for the ERHD courses.

The ERHD Scholarships are available to full-time or part-time graduate students with an interest in health disparities who will enroll and complete the East Carolina University ERHD graduate certificate online program. Candidates for the $1,000 scholarships are asked to submit a 500 – 1000 word essay describing their interests in ethnic and rural health disparities. Essays are due by September 24th, 2012. The ERHD Scholarship Committee will evaluate all applicants’ essays. A limited number of scholarships are available.

Please submit all materials to:

ERHD Scholarship Committee
ERHD Program
209 Flanagan
Mail Stop 568
East Carolina University
Greenville NC 27834

If you have questions regarding the ERHD scholarship, email baileye@ecu.edu

Welcome to the Fall 2012 Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Program

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Greetings Everyone,

I want to welcome everyone to the Fall 2012 semester of the ERHD program at East Carolina University. It is a pleasure to bring our ERHD program to all those who are interested in furthering their graduate education in the areas of ethnic, rural and global health disparities. This is actually the 4th year of our program and we are very delighted with the progress that we have made in such a short period of time.

In the spring, the ERHD celebrated the graduation of four MPH students and one health education student. During the summer, we had two more students who have fulfilled all of their requirements for the ERHD program. This coming fall 2012, we will celebrate several more graduates from the program.

I want to also welcome the new students to our ERHD program. We have new students who are receiving the partial scholarship support and other students who are not. Overall, we are continuing to work with all of the health and medical professionals who want to further their expertise in ethnic, rural and global health disparities.

We have also been fortunate to receive a new grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services of our federal government that supports the scholarships for the public health trainees. The HRSA support continues to help us stabilize and expand our program for so many new public health and medical professionals.

For the fall 2012, I produced a new ERHD welcome video. For those who are interested, here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQPLYvCCnYE&feature=youtu.be

If interested in the program or if you have question, please feel free to contact me at: baileye@ecu.edu. Thank you for visiting our ERHD blog and welcome to the ERHD program.