These HRSA traineeships support students in graduate eductional programs in accredited schools of
public health for training in public health fields with a severe shortage.
Below are the Johns Hopkins HRSA trainee recipients selected in 2011:
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| Memphis, TN Resume highlights:
• Coordinator of Footsteps In Hope AIDS Walk in Jackson, MS
• Outreach worker with an Orphan Vulnerable Child (OVC) project and Voluntary Counseling and Testing Center (VCT) in Zimbabwe
• Rollins School of Public Health MPH Merit Scholar Public health topics of focus while attending JHSPH: Psychosocial intervention and harm-reduction Benefits of the HRSA grant: It encourages my interest in public health practice and application. I am passionate about working in real-world settings,
interacting directly with communities / clients, while handling the challenges of limited resources and complicated environments.
This award supports my goal to expand public health beyond the clinical trial and to bring it into the community. |
|  | Washington, D.C. Resume Highlights:
• Public health attorney with 15 years experience in the Office of Chief Counsel (OCC) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Litigated enforcement cases against food and drug manufacturers violating FDA laws and counseled FDA on policies, regulations, and legislation
for human and animal drug safety, manufacturing, and approval standards
• MPH degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2011) and Fellowship with the Center for Livable Future Public health topics of focus while attending JHSPH: For my MPH studies, I focused on policy analysis as well as the risk sciences, including
quantitative methods for assessing public health policies and risks. For my doctoral studies, I am concentrating further on epidemiology and
biostatistics for public health policy, particularly those analytical methods used in assessing drug safety and effectiveness. Benefits of the HRSA grant: The HRSA grant has greatly assisted me in continuing my public health studies on a full-time basis in the
epidemiology DrPH program. In this way I can pursue my classes and research more thoroughly, which significantly enhances my learning and
strengthens my pursuit of these public health goals. |
|  | Columbus, Ohio Resume Highlights:
• Evaluated a rural Ohio farmers market’s EBT (food stamps) program.
• Identified potential partners and venues for community outreach by the American Diabetes Association of Maryland.
• Facilitated participatory material development, collected data for evaluation, and analyzed baseline data for the Healthy Bodies,
Healthy Souls church-based diabetes prevention intervention. Public health topics of focus while attending JHSPH: Health education & health communication and community-based public health Benefits of the HRSA grant: The HRSA grant enables me to continue my public health practice in Baltimore while pursuing my MSPH.
Combining practice-based work with class work encourages collaborative learning in both realms. |
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| Oakland, CA
Resume Highlights:
• Worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as Public Health Analyst (PHA) on the 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Implementation Task Force.
• At the University of California at Berkeley functioned as the Center for Infectious Diseases and Emergency Readiness (CIDER) project manager
for the California Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Prioritization and Implementation Projects.
• Received Assistant US Secretary of Health and Human Services Special Recognition for Technical Assistance to Department of Health and
Human Services, National Vaccine Program Office. Public health topics of focus while attending JHSPH: Epidemiology, biostatistics, public health policy formulation & evaluation,
risk assessment and communication, strategic management and leadership, and public health emergency preparedness and response
Benefits of the HRSA grant: I am very fortunate to be the recipient of the HRSA Public Health Training Grant award, which partially funds my tuition
and has allowed me to attend this university. Receiving this award has enabled me to continue my academic goals of addressing health disparities
among vulnerable populations in the hopes of saving and improving their lives. |
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| San Francisco, CA Resume Highlights:
• Assisted in the development of sexual and reproductive health policy at the White House as a Domestic Policy Council Intern
• Analyzed sexual health policy and educated Congressional staff on HIV/AIDS policy matters as the Public Policy Associate for
The AIDS Institute
• Founded and facilitated a female sexuality empowerment group at Pomona College Public health topics of focus while attending JHSPH: Sexual and reproductive health, epidemiology, health communication, adolescent health,
infectious diseases
Benefits of the HRSA grant: The HRSA grant helped me to fund my Masters of Public Health, in which I concentrated in Epidemiology. The funds
enabled me to continue to pursue my interest in this area, and in Fall 2011, I will begin her PhD in Epidemiology (Infectious Diseases). While pursuing
my PhD, I plan to develop, disseminate, and evaluate new media sexual health interventions. |
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| Asheville, North Carolina Resume Highlights:
• Abell Award in Urban Policy Recipient
• Regional Director, North Carolina Jaycees
• Dolores Aubrey Sullivan Award in Public Policy Public health topics of focus while attending JHSPH: Policy of Health Information Technology and its role in improving health systems Benefits of the HRSA grant: The HRSA grant allows me to fulfill the DrPH program requirements at JHSPH while also pursuing HIT-focused classes
throughout the Johns Hopkins system. Without the additional monetary support, I would not be able to simultaneously be exposed to classes on
health policy and HIT systems. |
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| Haddonfield, NJ Resume Highlights:
• MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a HRSA traineeship for public health practice
• 7-year Accelerated Joint BA/MD Program at Rutgers University and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
• 2008 Health Policy Fellow of the New Jersey State Senate Public health topics of focus while attending JHSPH: Translating research into public health practice, quantitative health policy analysis,
organizational leadership, and injury prevention Benefits of the HRSA grant: The HRSA award imbues me with greater confidence and drive to be a leader in public health. It facilitates the freedom
to take risks—not with money but with time and commitment. In turn, I am able to more deeply pursue research and networking experiences. |
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