Student & Alumni News

Jun 5, 2020

DrPH candidate Jennifer Jewell is interested in pediatric epidemiology—specifically in the arena of mental health. Her latest project has been studying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on depression, anxiety, and resilience.

May 29, 2020

Students and faculty from ColoradoSPH@CSU have been volunteering with Larimer County to assist with calling positive patients, creating informational materials, finding alternate locations for patients, and analyzing data.

May 21, 2020

Epideimiology MPH Rachel Steinberg got bitten by the public health bug while working with AmeriCorps. Now, she's graduating ready to continue her work in preventing chronic diseases, like diabetes, in vulnerable rural populations.

May 15, 2020

In just two years, Jessica Stubblefield, MPH '20, has studied the epidemiology of human trafficking, started the CU Anschutz chapter of Student Veterans of America, and was the second ever ColoradoSPH student to be named a Tillman Scholar.

Apr 29, 2020

Almost as soon as coronavirus appeared in Colorado, students from the School of Public Health stepped up to create PPE, create social media messages, and help keep health departments functioning.

Apr 29, 2020

ColoradoSPH alum Natalia Gayou sat down with CU Anschutz Today to talk about her work as a communicable disease epidemiologist at El Paso County Public Health and love of world travel.

Apr 6, 2020

Environmental and Occupational Health professor John Volckens has turned his research lab, typically the focus of studying air quality and pollution sensors, into a testing facility evaluating the safety of personal protective equipment.

Mar 20, 2020

Despite working to mitigate the impact of the virus, Asian American students like June Homdayjanakul are facing increasing discrimination in the face of COVID-19.

Feb 19, 2020

Dr. Katie Lohmiller and her sister Halley Gruber teamed up with local schools to develop a scientifically-based program that helps teachers better interact with both students and each other.

Jan 30, 2020

MPH student Kim Tolchinsky recently presented her work on campus food insecurity to the Colorado Department of Higher Education and Governor Jared Polis. She wrote about her passion for the CDHE.

Jan 9, 2020

Carrie Clifford, a Māori graduate student, spent five months studying indigenous child mental health with the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, hoping to take new skills and perspectives back to New Zealand.

Jan 6, 2020

MPH/DVM dual degree alum Anna Fagre is now pursuing a PhD in microbiology at CSU studying how bats transmit viruses, all the while performing and DJing at music festivals and local venues.

Dec 4, 2019

Roughly 40 ColoradoSPH students trained through the Colorado Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence to provide support to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in the event of a large foodborne illness outbreak.

Nov 19, 2019

A 24-hour sprint ended in bragging rights and scholarship money at the 2019 Rocky Mountain Public Health Case Competition, where students teamed up to try to address youth vaping.

Oct 30, 2019

MPH alum Reese Garcia is the Research Advocacy Manager for Fight Colorectal Cancer, a position where she empowers patients and families to take an active role in studying causes and treatments of the disease.

Oct 14, 2019

Thirty-seven years after her last epidemiology class, retired Larimer County Public Health Director Adrienne LeBailly has gone back to school as part of CSU's Lifelong Learner program.

Oct 14, 2019

The 2019-2020 recipients of scholarships funded by Dr. Richard and Molly Hoffman recently attended a reception at the Hoffmans' home, getting a chance to meet the people who made their scholarships possible.

Sep 30, 2019

The Center for Public Health Practice's Youth Project Manager talks power, it's relationship to tobacco use, and how to engage young people in social action programs that empower them to change their worlds.

Aug 27, 2019

ColoradoSPH @ CSU alum Brittney Sly got an MPH in global health and health disparities. Now, she's putting her coursework into practice, working with women in Rwanda to address malnutrition in their community.

Jul 31, 2019

A new peer mentorship pilot program at ColoradoSPH paired veterans Jessica Stubblefield and Carl LoFaro. Carl's mentorship guided Jessica to a prestigous Tillman Scholarship— the school's second after Carl himself.