Seven BA public health students and one MPH candidate proudly shared their capstone project proposal posters with participants at the 2015 Hawaii Public Health Association Conference held on Friday, October 9th at the Hawaii Convention Center. Many of these students will be presenting their final capstone results and outcomes at the upcoming Fall 2015 OPHS Undergraduate Summit on December 3rd.
Congratulations to Denise Nelson-Hurwitz, PhD, and Michelle Tagorda, MPH, on contributing to the publication Undergraduate Education for Public Health in the United States. Faculty from accredited schools and programs across the nation contributed to the 20 chapters. The purpose of the book is to describe current curricular approaches to undergraduate education for public health and to facilitate analysis and discussion of what makes quality education and builds a competent workforce. The articles address wide-ranging topics: the history of undergraduate public health education, recent development of accreditation criteria, description of specific programs, broader curriculum issues, and the evolving career opportunities in public health. The article contributed by Dr. Nelson-Hurwitz and Ms. Tagorda discusses the development of the undergraduate Applied Learning Experience. The free publication may be found at http://www.frontiersin.org/books/Undergraduate_Education_for_Public_Health_in_the_United_States/615.
Congratulations to B.A. Public Health students Abigail Sy, Michelle Tong, and Sally Voss for their great accomplishments at the Undergraduate Honors Showcase this May. Within the Social Sciences category, Sally Voss placed first in oral presentations of project proposals for her project on “Diabetes Awareness and Prevention Among At-Risk Adults in Nanchang, China," and Michelle Tong received an Honorable Mention for the oral presentation of her project proposal on “Effects of Health Literacy on Cardiovascular Disease in Chinese Americans.” Abigail Sy received the first place prize for poster presentations in Social Sciences for her project proposal, “Underrepresented Ethnicities in the Physician Workforce: Filipinos in Hawai‘i.” Congratulations to these outstanding students for their excellent representation of undergraduate public health!
Eight of our BA Public Health Honors students successfully presented their Applied Learning Experience project proposals at the UH Mānoa Spring Undergraduate Showcase on Friday, May 8th. All 8 students defended their proposals orally, as a requirement for the UHM Honors program, and 6 also shared their projects during the afternoon poster session. For more information about the UHM Undergraduate Showcase please see the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program website. Congratulations to our outstanding students! We look forward to hearing about the student's completed Applied Learning Experience projects in the Fall.
The Spring OPHS Undergraduate Summit was held in the BioMedical Sciences Building D-Courtyard on Thursday, April 30th 2015. This semester, 19 students presented posters of their Applied Learning Experience (APLE) project proposals as part of their undergraduate capstone experience. Of the students who presented, 7 are in the UH Manoa Honors program and 2 are CHL Scholars. Project topics ranged from reducing Native Hawaiian cancer disparities to improving prenatal health outcomes.
Public Health undergraduate students will present posters based on their Applied Learning Experience project proposals.
The OPHS Undergraduate Summit was held at the Sinclair Library Heritage Room on Thursday, December 4, 2014. Twenty-five students presented posters of their Applied Learning Experience (APLE) project proposals as part of their undergraduate capstone experience.
