Category: Shanekia Blackshear

ERHD Alumni – Update – Shanekia Blackshear Joyner

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Here is my Selfie with Shanekia.
Here is my Selfie with Shanekia.
Here is Shanekia in her Army uniform.
Here is Shanekia in her Army uniform.

As Director of the ERHD program, it is always rewarding to find out about our ERHD graduates and what they are doing now. A couple of days ago, Shanekia Blackshear Joyner, an ERHD 2014 graduate came to ECU and my office for a visit. She shared with me her latest accomplishments and talked about her experience in her new career.

Shanekia Blackshear Joyner is now a Licensed Practical Nurse at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center – an Army Medical Center in Germany! Yes, I said Germany! She is in the military and an Army specialist who wants to make a difference in the field of nursing, health & medical care but in expanding our Westernized view of the world’s populations.

So please check out our ERHD Facebook page and give a LIKE to our ERHD Graduate who is making and will continue to make her mark in the world! Here are a couple of photos including a Selfie that I took during her visit to my office.

The Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Alumni Study

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It gives me great pleasure to inform our current, future and past ERHD students that we will be starting a research study on our ERHD program. Graduate Assistant, Shanekia Blackshear, and I have developed a survey to find out about the effectiveness of the program.

The purpose of the ERHD Alumni Study is to determine the effectiveness of our online graduate certificate program. The major objectives of the ERHD Alumni Study are: (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of the ERHD program among our graduates; and (2) to assess new strategies for improving our ERHD program. We develped a semi-structured survey using Qualtrics – an online survey software. We will be contacting all our ERHD graduates and hopefully get full participation. Once we receive their input, we will analyze all of the quantitative and qualitative data.

After the analysis, Shanekia Blackshear and I will summarize the data in a brief report in which we will post on our ERHD Blog. We will also write-up a research paper and submit it to several public health journals. We believe this information is critical to not only future public health graduate students but also to the development of new public health training programs for professionals who are specifically focused on ethnic and rural health disparities.

Keep checking back to our ERHD Blog for updates to our new ERHD Alumni Study.

New ERHD Graduate Assistant – Shanekia Blackshear

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Shanekia Blackshear
Shanekia Blackshear

I am pleased to announce that the ERHD program will have our FIRST Graduate Assistant for the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 semester. Our new graduate assistant is Shanekia Blackshear. With assistance and collaboration with ECU’s Center for Health Disparities (CHD), Shanekia Blackshear will assist our ERHD program with a number of activities throughout the year. Her major responsibilities will be assisting in the areas of administrative activities, marketing, promotions and evaluating the ERHD program.

We look forward to her contribution to the ERHD program.

New ERHD Scholarship Students for Spring 2013

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The ERHD program is continuing to grow and expand into new directions each and every semester. We have been fortunate to receive funding for student scholarships from two previous HRSA grants and now we are starting a brand new funding period from HRSA to support our student scholarships.

Now that the ERHD Scholarship Committee has reviewed all of the applications, we have awarded 4 ERHD Scholarships for Spring 2013. Each ERHD scholarship student has displayed a special commitment and focus on the issues of ethnic and rural health disparities and that’s why they were awarded this very special scholarship.

The 2013 ERHD Scholarship recipients are: Samantha Kinney, Erica Payton, Tiffany Cox, and Shanekia Blackshear. Congratulations to all the recipients! We also want to thank our sponsor again — Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).