2023 Public Health Practice Spotlights
The Applied Practice Experience (APE) is a seminal experience for students in the MPH program, exposing them to real-world challenges and providing opportunities to apply what they have learned in class. YSPH students impact public health globally as well as in communities here in the United States.
Best Moments
Ashley Grey, MPH ’24 (Environmental Health Sciences)
Infection Prevention Intern, Location: Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven; Funding: YSPH Summer Fellowship AwardDallas Paul McCulloch, MPH ’24 (Social & Behavioral Sciences)
Public Health Research Intern, Michigan State University (MSU) College of Human Medicine, Flint Campus; Funding: paid as a worker by MSU.
Gloria Sarazin, MPH ’24 (Health Care Management)
Account Services Intern, BGB Group, New York; Funding: paid internship.
Huangrui Chu, MS ’24 (Biostatistics)
Graduate Research Assistant, Remote, Drexel University; Funding: Drexel University.
Huihui Huang, MPH ’24 (Health Policy, Public Health Modeling Concentration)
Summer Intern, Strategy and Project Management Office, AstraZeneca, Shanghai, China; Funding: paid internship by AstraZeneca.
Kaitlyn Maurais MPH ’24 (Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases)
Seasonal Research Assistant, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES), New Haven; Funding: paid by CAES.
Kiley Pratt, MPH ’24 (Health Policy, Climate Change and Health Concentration)
Summer Environmental Policy Fellow, Lofoten Islands, Norway; Funding: Jan A. J. Stolwijk Memorial Fellowship.
Lingxiao Zhang, MPH ’24 (Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Modeling Concentration)
Research assistant for an outcome and effectiveness research project in the COPPER center at Yale, remote; Funding: American Cancer Society.
Meirui Li, MPH ’24 (Biostatistics)
Business Planning Intern, Tenet Healthcare, Dallas, Texas; Funding: Tenet Healthcare through relocation stipend and hourly compensation.
Dr. Mohammed Isa Bammami, MD, MPH ’24 (Social & Behavioral Sciences, Global Health Concentration)
Yale Leadership in Global Health Fellow at UNICEF, United Nations Headquarters, New York; Funding: Yale Leadership in Global Health and Yale School of Public Health Summer Funding.
Nicole Del Castillo (Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases)
Research and Evaluation Intern at Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE), New Haven; Funding: hourly compensation.
Peri Sosensky, MPH ’24 (Health Policy)
Graduate Assistant at CARE (Community Alliance for Research & Engagement), Hybrid in New Haven; Funding: YSPH and Southern Connecticut State University.
Rachel Wang, MPH ’24 (Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Global Health Concentration)
Research Fellow, Romania National Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania; Funding: NCI/NIH funding through the Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP) fellowship.
Rodrigo Bravo, MD-MPH ’24 (Healthcare Management)
Pharmacy Intern, Stanford Health Care, Stanford Medicine, Palo Alto, California; Funding: Stanford Health Care Department of Pharmacy.
Dr. Samuel Chinonso Ubechu, MD, MPH ’24 (Social & Behavioral Sciences and Regulatory Affairs)
Program Associate, SalivaDirect, Inc., New Haven; Funding: Yale President’s Public Service Fellowship (hourly compensation).
Sophie Licostie, ’24, BA-MPH Joint Degree Program (Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases)
Research Assistant in the Anthropology and Ecology of Infectious Disease Unit at Institut Pasteur; Paris, France; Funding: YSPH summer grant.
Victor Amana, MPH ’24 (Chronic Disease Epidemiology)
Summer Associate at Boston Consulting Group, Summit, New Jersey; Funding: paid internship.
William Zhang, MPH ’24 (Chronic Disease Epidemiology)
Summer Analyst Intern in Health Care, Analysis Group, Boston; Funding: paid internship.