Magazine Spring 2014

Ideally situated in the world’s entertainment capital, the Fielding School prepares artistically inclined students to captivate audiences with public health messages.

The military has brought vastly different experiences for three current Fielding School students and a 2013 graduate, all of whom are committed to serving communities through public health.

As a White House intern, Alison Winje brought her public health perspective to the administration's response to the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion.

As leaders of a vital epidemiological study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, two PhD students have overcome challenges unlikely to be found in any textbook.

Public health is critical to addressing the needs of homeless and indigent individuals, and to tackling the root causes of homelessness. Through an undergraduate course they teach and partnerships they have forged with students across campus, FSPH students are delivering for a population too often ignored.

Fielding School students who were the recipients of academic awards, scholarships, internships, grants or fellowships during the 2013-14 academic year.