{"id":76003,"date":"2017-03-17T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=76003"},"modified":"2019-11-15T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T23:44:55","slug":"research-spotlight-olus-marshallese-project","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/news\/research-spotlight-olus-marshallese-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Spotlight: Olu&#8217;s Marshallese Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Spotlight: Olu&#8217;s Marshallese Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Shaw Middle School.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/02\/Ek\u00fanday\u00f2O_17a-1.jpg\" alt=\"Olu Ek\u00fanday\u00f2\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-76135\" \/>Shaw Middle School employs more teachers with master&#8217;s degrees than Spokane\u2019s other six middle schools. However, Shaw ranks the lowest. To figure out how to improve the situation amongst the Marshallese at Shaw, Ekundayo and his students asked: What does the community know that we don\u2019t know? What would they like us to know?<\/p>\n<p>To help answer this question, he and his students conducted a focus group. Using the data from the focus group, his students prepared a preliminary interim, which taught students how to do thematic assessment and analysis. In doing so, they have advanced toward their goal of bridging the gap of communication between the Marshallese community and Spokane\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n<p>By using these real-life challenges instead of theoretical scenarios, Ekundayo better prepares his students for the actual public health work that they will do after their formal education is complete. This project will continue into future semesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Spotlight: Olu&#8217;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\u2019s Shaw Middle School. Shaw Middle School employs more teachers<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/news\/research-spotlight-olus-marshallese-project\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":76135,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-76003","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-public-health","stories_tags-ewu","stories_tags-mph","stories_tags-mphewu"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"display_byline":true,"display_date_published":true},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/76003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/76003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78679,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/76003\/revisions\/78679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/chsph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}