New ERHD Graduate – Karen Saffron – Fall 2019

It was with great pleasure to acknowledge our latest ERHD graduate — Karen Saffron. Karen is another exceptional graduate professional who completed our program officially during the summer of 2019 yet had to delay her graduation ceremony activities because of going through spinal surgery. We therefore decided to delay her participation until the Fall Graduation … Read more

Jessica W. Miller – Our Latest 2015 ERHD Graduate!

As Director of the ERHD program, it gives me great pleasure to announce our latest ERHD graduate – Jessica W. Miller. Jessica just completed her final course (MPH 6009) Capstone Experience in Ethnic Health & Health Disparities this summer. The title of her Capstone Proposal was, “A Qualitative Study Proposal for a Needs Assessment: Gardening … Read more

The ERHD Program – A Successful Model for other DE Programs

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 … Read more

#proudERHDgraduate – Beginning New Tradition for our ERHD Graduates

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 … Read more