It’s that time of year again. The deadline for Spring 2024 Admission to the ERHD Graduate Certificate Online program is tomorrow — October 31st! It’s a very busy time of the fall semester so we are looking forward to those who are interested in our Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities courses and Certificate, please submit … Read more
It is my distinct pleasure to announce that the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) will be officially welcoming two new ERHD students to our program. They are: Kirchner Courtney and Soonelia Barnes. First, Soonelia Barnes is interested in the ERHD program because it will allow her to extend her knowledge in the field of … Read more
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
On May 3rd, 2019, it was a very SPECIAL day in which I was supposed to award TWO graduate students their ERHD Graduate Certificates at the Department of Public Health Graduation ceremonies for their MPH students. My two new ERHD graduates were: Eunicia Jones Karen Saffron Unfortunately, both students were not able to attend this … Read more
It gives me GREAT pleasure to introduce our latest ERHD Graduate – Amy Lee, Yesterday, Amy participated in the MPH graduating ceremony to receive her ERHD Graduate Certificate. She completed all of the ERHD courses (MPH 6005, MPH 6007, MPH 6008, and MPH 6009) last year and now finally received her diploma! Amy’s Capstone proposal … Read more
Last year, I started a new tradition with the ERHD program and it involved HONORING — Ms Kelly Bass. Kelly is our extra special ERHD STUDENT ADMINISTRATOR and ERHD COURSE ADMINISTRATOR who helps me with all the internal administrative activities related to student enrollment, student graduation, course arrangement, and course implementation into the ECU system. Kelly is the … Read more
As Director of the ERHD program, I am pleased to announce that our program is accepting applications from qualified professionals for the Fall 2017 Admissions. The ERHD graduate certificate online program remains the ONE and ONLY graduate certificate program in the United States focuses specifically on ethnic and rural health disparities. The ERHD graduate certificate … Read more
As Director of the ERHD program, we would not have been as successful as we have been during the past 6 years without the assistance of a very significant staff administrator. Although she works primarily for the MPH program and the Department of Public Health, Kelly Bass has been our ERHD Coordinator of Student Admissions and … Read more
As Director of the ERHD Program and Professor of Public Health & Anthropology, I regularly participate in the Fall and Spring Graduation Ceremonies of East Carolina University. Although this spring ECU graduation ceremony began in the rain, the weather cleared up for another outstanding ceremony. Surprisingly, at the graduation ceremony, I met one of our … Read more
The Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities Program at ECU wants to officially inform all visitors that our program is on the federal listing as a Title IV eligible certificate program. What this means is that qualified graduate professionals who are accepted into the program NOW have more options to finance their courses. Financing for this … Read more