Category: Dr. Eric Bailey

DEADLINE FOR FALL 2024 ADMISSION – MARCH 31st, 2024!

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It’s that time of the year again. The deadline for Fall 2024 Admission to the ERHD Graduate Certificate Online program is at the end of the month – March 31st! I know it’s a very busy time for everyone yet if you are interested in our Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities courses and Certificate, please submit your documents to me via regular mail or email at: baileye@ecu.edu.

The major documents to be submitted are: (1) Letter of Interest, (2) Transcript, (3) GRE/MCAT scores, (4) Writing Sample, and (5) Recommendation Letter.

Upon receipt of your documents, I will forward your documents to our ERHD Admissions Committee for review and determination of the acceptance of each applicant. If you are having any difficulty in submitting your documents by the due date, please inform Dr. Eric Bailey – baileye@ecu.edu

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 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

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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.

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).

#proudERHDgraduate – Beginning New Tradition for our ERHD Graduates

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ERHD Poster - #proudERHDgraduate
ERHD Poster – #proudERHDgraduate

Today, March 23rd, 2015, I want to acknowledge a great ideal that I received from our 2014 ERHD graduate – Crystal Dixon. Last week, Crystal signed her comment on the ERHD Facebook page using #proudERHDgraduate. For one thing, we are very proud to continue to be able to deliver our unique online graduate program focused on ethnic and rural health disparities at East Carolina University and secondly to know that our graduates are PROUD to be associated and graduate from our certificate program. We try each semester to provide the best graduate education for all those interested in our 4 course curriculum and we feel that our graduates are at an advantage in the job market because of this specialized training.

Therefore, I would like for ALL OUR ERHD GRADUATES to spread the word in all types of social media outlets using #proudERHDgraduate when you are discussing your graduate training or issues related to public health, health disparities, cultural competency, future of public health, future of medicine, and future of the U.S. health care system.

Let’s see if we can spread the word of our ERHD program to many other new outlets just using #proudERHDgraduate. Thanks again to Crystal Dixon for this ideal AND I want to thank all of the ERHD students and ERHD graduates for working exceptionally hard in our program and making us feel very proud of your career achievements now and many more years to come!

ERHD Program adds New Faculty – Dr. Stephanie Jilcott Pitts

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The Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Graduate Certificate Online Program is a unique program located in the Department of Public Health at ECU which focuses specifically on ethnic and rural health disparities. It is still the one and only graduate certificate program in the United States focused specifically on ethnic and rural health disparities. We are also unique because all of our classes are online and we use the extensive online infrastructure of the UNC system to bring this program to university campuses throughout the UNC system and to other states.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that we are finally adding another faculty member to our ERHD program. Co-Director Dr. Justin Moore and I want to welcome Dr. Stephanie Jilcott Pitts. Dr. Jilcott Pitts has been and continues to be a faculty member of ECU’s Department of Public Health for the past seven years. Her research is focused on examining and addressing policy and environmental factors related to obesity, diet, and physical activity. Dr. Jilcott Pitts is also a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a native of Bertie County, eastern North Carolina. In the ERHD program, Dr. Jilcott Pitts will be a part of our ERHD Admissions Committee.

To view the entire ERHD Faculty Bios, please check out the following links:

Director Dr. Eric Bailey

Co-Director – Dr. Justin Moore

ERHD Faculty Dr. Stephanie Jilcott Pitts

Please go to our ERHD Facebook to welcome our new ERHD Faculty member – Dr. Stephanie Jilcott Pitts.

ERHD Exhibit at North Carolina Community College System Conference – Raleigh, NC

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Dr. Bailey and Jennifer Baysden
Dr. Bailey and Jennifer Baysden

ECU Exhibit Booth
ECU Exhibit Booth

Here is my ERHD Exhibit
Here is my ERHD Exhibit

During October 12 – 14th, the ERHD Program was invited to participate in the North Carolina Community College System Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Distance Education Coordinator, Jennifer Baysden, of ECU asked if I wanted to exhibit the ERHD program at this event and was delighted to receive the invitation.

Once I arrived, I set up our ERHD tabletop exhibit in one of the areas of the ECU booth and other departments and schools set up their displays as well. After everyone got situated, the ECU booth was very impressive and in fact we had more visitors to our ECU booth than other university exhibits.

The conference attendees that I spoke to about the ERHD program were ECU graduates who now work at NC Community colleges. They are now instructors, administrators and directors at various community colleges throughout the state. They were also very proud of the achievements at ECU and proud to be a Pirate!

Overall, the ERHD program truly benefited from the marketing of our innovative program at this community college event. Check out a few photos.

ERHD Program Accepting New Students for 2015 Spring Admissions

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As Director of the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Graduate Certificate Online Program, I want to welcome all interested and qualified graduate professionals to apply to our ERHD Certificate Program. In order to be successfully admitted to the ERHD program, all ERHD applicants must submit the required materials to our ERHD Admissions Committee by the required due date of October 1st, 2014.

The ERHD Admissions Committee meets twice a year and reviews all ERHD applicants materials. For the fall, we meet after all materials are received from all applicants, review the materials, and then make decisions on which ERHD applicants to admit. Along with the review by our ERHD Admissions Committee, each applicant must submit their materials to ECU Graduate School as well. Applicants MUST be admitted to ECU graduate school FIRST before being admitted to the ERHD program.

ERHD SUBMISSION OF REQUIRED MATERIALS:

ECU MPH Students Only:
1. Letter of Interest
2. Writing Sample
3. Recommendation Letter

Other Graduate Students:
1. Transcript
2. GRE or MCAT Scores
3. Letter of Interest
4. Writing Sample
5. Recommendation Letter

Send all ERHD application materials to:

Dr. Eric Bailey
ERHD Director
Professor
ERHD Admissions Committee
East Carolina University
209 Flanagan Bldg.
Mailstop 568
Greenville, NC 27834-4353

Email materials to:
baileye@ecu.edu

ALL MATERIALS ARE DUE BY OCTOBER 1st, 2014

2014 Spring ERHD Graduates

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Dr. Bailey and Graduate Assistant Shanekia Joyner
Dr. Bailey and Graduate Assistant Shanekia Joyner

2014 ERHD Spring Graduates
2014 ERHD Spring Graduates

On Friday, May 9th, the Department of Public Health at East Carolina University held our Master of Public Health Graduate Recognition Ceremony at the Brody School of Medicine. For the third consecutive year, the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Graduate Certificate Program graduated FIVE special graduates. Of course, this was not only a special day for all the MPH graduates, it was particularly rewarding to acknowledge the graduation of our 5 ERHD graduates!

The FIVE ERHD graduates were:

Daniel Allen
Crystal Ellis
Shanekia Joyner
Lauren Needell
Carpaccio Owens

Here is a picture of our 5 ERHD graduates and I.

This was a particularly special year for our ERHD program as well because this was the first year that we had a graduate assistant. Shanekia Joyner was the first graduate assistant of the ERHD program and I want to recognize her outstanding weekly effort and achievement in the ERHD program. I have also included a picture of Shenekia and I.

In addition to our 5 ERHD MPH graduates, the ERHD program also graduated another student. She is apart of another ECU program and her name is:

Ashley Mchaney

In summary, the ERHD officially graduated SIX ERHD students during the 2014 spring ceremonies. I was very proud of each student’s achievement and their hard work throughout the program. I felt honored to help them move to the next stage of their fantastic careers!

Final Note: I want to personally thank all of the previous ERHD graduating classes. You have made our continual growth and success possible!