Category: Director Dr. Eric Bailey

DEADLINE FOR FALL 2022 ERHD APPLICANTS – MARCH 31ST

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As of today, March 1st, the ERHD program is back on its regular schedule in accepting applicants for the Fall 2022 academic year. We are very excited about our current ERHD students and look forward to them completing their ERHD program by the end of this summer 2022.

Yet we are equally excited about the NEW applicants who are applying and who will apply to our ERHD program by the due date — MARCH 31st! We strongly encourage all those individuals who are interested in our ERHD program to not wait until the last minute to apply to our ERHD program. It is so important for interested graduate professionals to send in and complete all of your documents as soon as possible for consideration and review by our ERHD Admissions Committee.

Please go to our ERHD website for all the details in applying to our ERHD program for the Fall 2022!

 Director Dr. Eric Bailey and colleague Dr. Gregory Kearney

ERHD Holiday Greetings!

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As Director of the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) program at East Carolina University, I want to wish everyone – current students, alumni, and potential new ERHD students – a very Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Holiday season! Our ERHD program continues to grow each year and we are looking for bigger and better opportunities for our program in 2017 and 2018! I am very pleased and PROUD of all of our graduates. Your continued success in your careers has been worth all the effort in starting this program back in 2009 and 2010 and I will continue to push forward for new opportunities for our current and future ERHD students. I also want to thank my incredible ERHD Admissions Committee members – Dr. Justin Moore and Dr. Stephanie Bell Jillcot Pitts AND ERHD Student Coordinator – Kelly Bass!

THANK YOU ALL, ENJOY THE MOMENT and FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!!

ERHD Director - Dr. Eric Bailey
ERHD Director – Dr. Eric Bailey

Accepting Applications for Spring 2016 Admissions

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As Director of the ERHD Program, I am delighted to announce that our program is accepting applications from qualified graduate professionals for the Spring 2016 Admissions. The ERHD graduate certificate online program in ethnic and rural health disparities at East Carolina University uses the latest online technology to assist medical health professionals and public health administrators in not only obtaining additional expertise in ethnic and rural health disparities but also in developing culturally competent solutions for specific health disparity populations.

The three major objectives for the certificate program are to get graduates to:
1. Identify ethnic and rural health disparity issues;
2. Analyze more comprehensively ethnic and rural health issues; and
3. Develop more culturally competent projects, plans and policies that are designed for specific ethnic and rural communities in the United States and communities around the world.

To obtain a graduate certificate in ethnic and rural health disparities, completion of 12 credit hours is required. The ERHD program consists of four online courses:

1. MPH 6005 African American Health
2. MPH 6007 Global Public Health
3. MPH 6008 Ethnic Health & Health Disparities
4. MPH 6009 Capstone Experience in Ethnic Health & Health Disparities

Applicants applying to the ERHD program need to submit to our ERHD Admissions Committee the following:

ECU MPH Students ONLY
Letter of Interest
Writing Sample
Recommendation Letter

Other Graduate Students
Letter of Interest
Writing Sample
Recommendation Letter
Transcript
GRE or MCAT Score

Send all materials to:

Director Eric Bailey
ERHD Admissions Committee
Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Program
East Carolina University
209 Flanagan
Mail Stop 568
Greenville, NC 27834

Due date for application materials is October 30, 2015.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email: baileye@ecu.edu

We are looking forward to a new set of ERHD graduate professionals in 2016!

The ERHD Program – A Successful Model for other DE Programs

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Here is ERHD Director Dr. Eric Bailey
Here is ERHD Director Dr. Eric Bailey

On June 3rd, I participated in the Department of Public Health’s DE Graduate Certificate brainstorm session focused on Public Health Foundations and Practice – Training and Discussion at East Carolina University. I was asked to discuss the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) program and how it became so successful of a DE program in just a short period of time.

The all morning session featured other successful programs along with sessions on training faculty with technical tools for teaching DE courses such as mediasite and blackboard. The entire training session for the Department of Public Health was organized by Dr. Greg Kearney since he will be the official Director of the DE Graduate Certificate in Public Health at ECU.

In my talk to the audience as Director of the ERHD Program, I highlighted several key points which has helped the ERHD success. They were: 1. Marketing the ERHD Program, 2. Setting High Standards for the ERHD Program, 3. Finding our particular niche within public health, 4. Setting short-term and long-term goals, 5. Receiving funding support, and 6. Receiving Student feedback to make improvements to the ERHD program.

I received very good response and questions from the audience and hope that I expressed the importance of our ERHD program to the public health field. In fact, the ERHD program is STILL the one and only ONLINE accredited, university program focused on ethnic and rural health disparities! That makes me, our faculty, and hopefully all our current and past ERHD graduates proud (#proudERHDgraduate).

Presenting the ERHD Program at the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) Conference

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Dr. Bailey talks to attendees during the poster presentation session.
Dr. Bailey talks to attendees during the poster presentation session.

Dr. Bailey presents paper at the APTR Conference
Dr. Bailey presents paper at the APTR Conference

On March 16, 2015, I presented our ERHD program at the annual Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina. The title of my paper presentation was, “A New Online Strategy in Teaching Ethnic Health and Health Disparities to Public Health Professionals.” Not only did I give an oral presentation to the audience but I also presented a poster board presentation.

During both presentations, I received a great response from the audience and lots of interest in the total design, structure, delivery, content, and public health professionals who graduated from our ERHD program. From the discussions that I had from all of the interested conference attendees, our Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) program was viewed very favorably and surprised on how successful we have been able to deliver a completely online graduate certificate program that focuses on ethnic and rural health disparities.

Although not surprising, we are still a unique and one-of-a-kind program in which other universities would like to duplicate and/or develop a collaboration with us. This is truly great news!!

In summary, I appreciated the opportunity to present our study of the ERHD program at the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) conference. The connection, exposure and networking with key public health professionals at major universities helped to further market our ERHD program to completely new potential audiences. Finally, I feel extremely pleased that our ERHD program and all the graduates from our ERHD program are apart of a special, cutting-edge, and innovative graduate certificate online program that is paving the way for future online graduate education programs in public health and medicine.

Check out a couple of photos from the APTR conference.