Category: Shanekia Joyner

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.

ERHD Program – Published in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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The Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) has truly come along way since our start just a few years in 2010. With the support of the Department of Public Health at ECU and particularly the previous chairperson – Dr. Lloyd Novick — the ERHD program became established within the system of ECU as one of the unique online programs in the country. Once we began to enroll students in 2010 and 2011, I had a good feeling that we were paving a new way to provide graduate health professionals a higher level of expertise training in public health and medicine that was focused on issues such as health disparities, rural health disparities, ethnic and racial health disparities, global public health, qualitative research, cultural competency and African American health.

With the success of graduating outstanding ERHD students for four solid years, by 2014 I decided that our ERHD program needed to evaluate itself in the manner of an ERHD Alumni Study. With the assistance of our graduate assistant at the time — Shanekia Joyner — Shanekia and I along with Dr. Justin Moore developed the research project and surveyed as many graduates that had the time to complete our online survey.

In March, I presented the results of our 2014 ERHD Alumni Survey study at the Association of Prevention Teaching Research (APTR) Conference in Charleston, SC.. That was a major success and I received invaluable feedback and support from all the professionals who attended the conference.

Now we are receiving additional professional acknowledgment of our program from the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. The journal has published our research study as of September 2015 with an online version and later in 2016 the print (hardcopy) version will be printed in this professional academic peer-reviewed journal.

Here is the article and it is entitled, “A New Online Strategy in Teaching Racial and Ethnic Health and Health Disparities to Public Health Professionals.” After review, let us know what you think about our ERHD program by emailing me at: baileye@ecu.edu. We feel very proud of our online ERHD Graduate Certificate program and all those who have assisted us in varying capacities to keep it going from semester to semester and year to year.

I want to sincerely thank all those who have believed in our online ERHD Certificate Program, supported our program in the past and who are continuing to support our ERHD program for the future. I especially feel pleased and grateful for all of our OUTSTANDING ERHD GRADUATES!! Each one of you are THE NEW LEADERS in the field of PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE!!

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!

ERHD 2014 Spring Graduates – Announced

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As Director of the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Graduate Certificate Online Program, it gives me great pleasure to announce our next set of ERHD graduates for Spring 2014. They are:

Shanekia Joyner
Crystal Ellis
Lauren Needell
Carpaccio Owens
Daniel Allen
Ashley Mchaney

Each one of our Spring 2014 graduates have completed or are in the very final stages of completing all of their coursework for the ERHD program. Not surprisingly, each ERHD student has been very impressive in all of their coursework, fieldwork projects/proposals, and online discussion board sessions.

Without a doubt, I am certain that our Spring 2014 ERHD graduates will become our country’s next set of leaders in public health and particularly in all issues related to ethnic and rural health disparities!