Category: Public Health

On August 25, 2018, Daniel Morales, MPH alumni and Community Outreach and Development Manager at Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center, hosted a Back to School Drive at East Central Community Center. Current MPH student Dilli Gautam volunteered for the event and witnessed how the MPH program prepared students such as Daniel to become…

Guillermo Mendez, Dilli Gautam, and Jessica R. Ochoa were recently granted a national award for their research project “Successful Recruitment and Retention Strategies for a Workforce in Long-Term Care” by the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA). ACHCA held the 2018 Convocation and Exposition granting opportunities for students to present their research in the…

A group of Eastern Washington University faculties and students from the Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of Social work (MSW) program attended 2018 Aging in America conference in San Francisco. At the conference, Anna Tresidder, the MPH program director presented her research on the topic “Aging and Independent in Rural Places: A Photovoice…

The MPHA has recently elected new officers. From left to right in the below picture, the new officers are: Kathy O’Neill, Secretary Johnny Aldan, President Luis Vela, Vice President and Treasurer Adrian Mobley, Public Relations Officer and Event Coordinator

On November 7, 2017, Ryan Douse, Jessica R. Ochoa, Brendon Winston, and Dilli Gautam, Masters of Public Health Students, entered the EWU Eagle’s Nest Pitch Contest and took first place! The contest allowed them to pitch our innovative public health technology tool aimed at addressing the opioid crisis impacting our communities locally and nationally. As…

Eastern Washington University, working in partnership with Juan N. Corpas University (Bogotá, Colombia), has been chosen as a 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund grant winner. The alliance, which involves EWU’s Office of Global Initiatives and the College of Health Science and Public Health, will give students from the two universities the opportunity to…

Eastern Washington University in partnership with Providence Health Care, the Empire Health Foundation, and Kaiser Permanente hosted the “Making Mental Health Essential Health: A Community Health Forum on January 31st. Over 1300 community members attended the event and had access to community vendors providing resources for mental and behavioral health. The Honorable Patrick J. Kennedy,…

On April 22, Shaw Middle School held an event for the Marshallese community residing in Spokane. This event celebrated the academic success of Marshallese students in grades 7-12 from across Spokane County. The event also served as a health clinic for students’ family members, in which free vaccinations and health screenings were offered. Three-hundred seventy…

The MPHA has recently elected new officers. From left to right in the below picture, the new officers are: Dilli Gautam, Public Relations Officer Jessica R. Ochoa, President April Gunderson, Event Coordinator Britney Vanwinkle, Treasurer Morgan Odell, Vice President Zoe Dugdale, Secretary

Research Spotlight: Olu’s Marshallese Project Professor Olugbemiga Ekundayo has been conducting a live challenge project as part of his class on social epidemiology. The project sparked when he learned from one of his students that there was an educational deficit amongst the Marshallese students of Spokane’s Shaw Middle School. Shaw Middle School employs more teachers…