Category: Director Eric Bailey

ERHD Holiday Greetings!

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 Fall 2016 Admissions

As Director of the ERHD program, I am pleased to announce that our program is accepting applications from qualified graduate professionals for the Fall 2016 Admissions. The ERHD graduate certificate online program is STILL the one and only graduate certificate program in the United States focused specifically on ethnic and rural health disparities. The ERHD graduate certificate online program uses the latest online technology to train public health and medical health professionals in not only obtaining additional expertise in ethnic and rural health disparities but also in developing culturally competent solutions for specific health disparity populations. For a complete overview and introduction to our ERHD program, please go to our website at:

Ethnic and Rural Health Graduate Certificate Online Program

The three major objectives of the ERHD certificate program are to get graduates to:
1. Identify ethnic and rural health disparity issues;
2. Analyze more comprehensively ethnic and rural health disparity 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 – Summer 1 semester
2. MPH 6007 Global Public Health – Fall semester
3. MPH 6008 Ethnic Health & Health Disparities – Spring semester
4. MPH 6009 Capstone Experience in Ethnic Health & Health Disparities – Summer 11 week semester

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 March 31st, 2016

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

We are looking forward to a new set of ERHD graduate professionals beginning the Fall 2016!

Welcome to the 2015 – 2016 ERHD Program at East Carolina University

ERHD Director Eric Bailey lecturing.
ERHD Director Eric Bailey lecturing.

As Director of the ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program, I want to WELCOME all the new ERHD students to our program for the entire 2015 – 2016 academic year at East Carolina University in North Carolina. Our ERHD program is still the one and ONLY graduate certificate online in the United States that is focused on teaching, investigating and developing specific public health and medical programs designed for ethnic and rural health disparity groups in the United States.

If you are a health and/or medical professional who is interested in health disparities, health equity, medical care, and public health programming OR will be working with specific racial, ethnic, or rural populations as it relates to their health and medical care needs, this Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) program is for you.

Check out my new ERHD Welcome Address and send me an email if you have any further questions or interest in our program.