Congratulations to the 2017 UH Mānoa Awardees from our very own Public Health program ‘ohana - doctoral student, Mapuana, and assistant professor, Denise Nelson-Hurwitz!

Dr. Nelson-Hurwitz received the Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She was selected because of her incredible work developing and teaching the BA in public health.

Mapuana Antonio won the Student Excellence in Research Award for her studies of Native Hawaiian physical and mental health resilience. Mapuana graduated in May 2017 with her DrPH and is now teaching at Leeward Community College.

The Spring 2017 OPHS Undergraduate Summit was a success. This event was a poster presentation of project proposals from 4-5pm and final projects from 5-6pm for their Applied Learning Experience (a BA Public Health degree requirement). There were 58 students presenting in total (25 proposals and 33 final projects), including 31 students graduating later this month and 5 Honors students. 

Thank you to all the fabulous people who helped make this event possible including Lisa Kehl, Debbie Drummondo, Maya Uemoto, Chevelle Davis, Dejah Fa’asoa, and OPHSAS. Congratulations to all of our wonderful students for their accomplishments

The Fall 2016 OPHS Undergraduate Summit was a success. This event was a poster presentation of project proposals from 4-5pm and final projects from 5-6pm for their Applied Learning Experience (a BA Public Health degree requirement). 

There were 45 students presenting in total (20 proposals and 25 final projects), including 17 students graduating later this month and 2 Honors students. 

Seven of our BA Public Health students who will be graduating this month presented their Applied Learning Experience final projects and five students presented their Applied Learning Experience proposals at the Spring 2016 Honors Showcase on Friday, May 6, 2016. 

Congratulations to BA Public Health students Sasha Madan and Chevelle Davis for their First Place and Honorable Mention awards in the completed project, Social Sciences category at the Honors Undergraduate Showcase on May 6, 2016!

The Spring 2016 OPHS Undergraduate Summit was a success. This event was a poster presentation of project proposals from 4-5pm and final projects from 5-6pm for their Applied Learning Experience (a BA Public Health degree requirement). 

There were 56 students presenting in total (38 proposals and 18 final projects), including 18 students graduating later this month and 16 Honors students. 

Please join us as our undergraduate students present their Applied Learning Experience (APLE) project posters at the OPHS Undergraduate Summit on Thursday, April 28. This event will be held in the Biomedical Sciences Building, D-Courtyard from 4:00-5:00 PM (proposal project posters) and 5:00-6:00 PM (final project posters).

The Fall 2015 OPHS Undergraduate Summit was by all accounts a great success. This event was a poster presentation of project proposals from 4-5pm and final projects from 5-6pm for their Applied Learning Experience (a BA Public Health degree requirement). 

There were 44 students presenting in total (24 proposals and 20 final projects), including 12 students graduating later this month, 9 Honors students, and 2 CHL Scholars. Of the final projects, 6 of them took place internationally and among the proposals, 3 are developing global health projects.

Please join us for our Fall 2015 Undergraduate Summit.