COPH Picks Archives - News & Events

Susanna Von Essen, MD, MPH

by COPH Staff | February 15, 2013

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Susanna Von Essen has played a vital role in the growth of the College of Public Health (COPH). She was chair of the Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health committee responsible for establishing the blueprint for the department in 2007. She contributed to the development of courses and curriculum for the Master of Public Health concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH), serving as the department’s representative on the Graduate Program Committee, the precursor to the current COPH Curriculum Committee…. Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 3 / Is. 02 Feb 2013

Sarbinaz Bekmuratova

by COPH Staff | February 15, 2013

Student Highlight – Sarbinaz Bekmuratova is a doctoral student in the Department of Health Services Research and Administration in the College of Public Health (COPH). Sarbinaz is from Nukus, Uzbekistan, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in philology at Karakalpak State University in 2005. She received an Edmund Muskie Fellowship funded by the US State Department to pursue her master’s degree in community health at Minnesota State University, where she graduated in the summer of 2012. She started her COPH PhD program in the fall… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Student Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 3 / Is. 02 Feb 2013

Jungyoon Kim, PhD

by COPH Staff | December 15, 2012

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Kim teaches Health Care Organization Theory and Behavior. This course is about learning, understanding, and applying macro and micro theories that are relevant to explain and solve various problems in health care. Macro theory focuses on understanding how health care organizations behave and change their forms to adapt to the environment. Micro theory deals with human behavioral problems in health care, such as motivation, leadership, communication, and/or conflict. Dr. Kim’s research focuses on organizational and behavioral problems in health care. She… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 2 / Is. 12, Dec 2012

Veenu Minhas, PhD

by COPH Staff | December 15, 2012

Student Highlight – Dr. Veenu Minhas is an UNMC College of Public Health (COPH) MPH student in the epidemiology concentration. She entered the program in spring 2001 and plans to complete her coursework at the end of the current semester and begin her service-learning project in spring 2013. Dr. Minhas became interested in public health during her experience overseas. While pursuing her PhD and later on as a postdoctoral fellow in virology, she worked as a project director for a large epidemiological study in Zambia,… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Student Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 2 / Is. 12, Dec 2012

The Role of Public Health Training Centers in Public Health

by COPH Staff | December 15, 2012

Public Health in the National News – In October 2011, the College of Public Health (COPH) was awarded funding to launch the Great Plains Public Health Training Center (Great Plains PHTC). The purpose of the PHTC program nationally is to improve the nation’s public health system by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competence of the current and future public health workforce. The program is funded through the Affordable Care Act Prevention and Public Health Fund, and is administered through the Health Resources and… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Featured Stories, Local News, National News, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 2 / Is. 12, Dec 2012

Kendra Schmid, PhD

by COPH Staff | November 15, 2012

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Kendra Schmid teaches BIOS 823/CPH 653, Categorical Data Analysis. While this course is an MPH biostatistics concentration course, students in other programs also enroll. Dr. Schmid is developing an online section of the MPH biostatistics core course, BIOS 806/CPH 506, to be offered in spring 2013. Dr. Schmid’s methodological research focuses on statistical shape analysis, and more specifically, on methods of describing, mapping, and matching shapes using landmark coordinates. As a biostatistician, she serves as a statistician for research projects across… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, Featured Stories, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 2 / Is. 11, Nov 2012

Maha Farid

by COPH Staff | November 15, 2012

Student Highlight – Maha Farid is a PhD candidate in the College of Public Health (COPH) Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, in the toxicology track. Maha graduated from medical school in Egypt in 2001 and earned a master’s degree in in forensic medicine and toxicology in 2006. In 2008, Maha received a scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Egypt to pursue a PhD in toxicology. She began her PhD program in the COPH in August of 2008. Maha… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Student Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 2 / Is. 11, Nov 2012