Student Resources

Practice Team Contact Information by Department

Environmental and Occupational Health
Georgia Middleditch - gmiddleditchgwu [dot] edu (gmiddleditch[at]gwu[dot]edu)
Veronica Southerland - vtinneygwu [dot] edu (vtinney[at]gwu[dot]edu)

Epidemiology
Joseph Schmitthenner - jschmitthennergwu [dot] edu (jschmitthenner[at]gwu[dot]edu)
Vivianne Alves de Sa - %20vivianne_agwu [dot] edu (vivianne_a[at]gwu[dot]edu)

Biostatistics
Joseph Schmitthenner - jschmitthennergwu [dot] edu (jschmitthenner[at]gwu[dot]edu)
Stephanie Lee - %20sleegwu [dot] edu (slee[at]gwu[dot]edu)

Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Michelle Stevens - mmstevengwu [dot] edu

Global Health
Nino Paichadze - npaichadze1gwu [dot] edu
Rebecca Erickson-Hinds - rebecca24gwu [dot] edu (rebecca24[at]gwu[dot]edu)

Health Policy and Management
Students with Last Names A - L | Melissa Goldstein - mgoldstegwu [dot] edu
Students with Last Names M - Z | Lara Cartwright-Smith - laracsgwu [dot] edu
Leticia Chavarria - lchavarria40gwu [dot] edu

MPH @ GW
Stephanie Shorten - sshortengwu [dot] edu
Laura Vasisko - lvasiskogwu [dot] edu
Kelley Vargo - kmvfitgwu [dot] edu
Christiana Ebiasah - cebiasahgwu [dot] edu
Malika Hook Muhammad - mahmuhammadgwu [dot] edu
Ann Rich - richagwu [dot] edu
MPH@GW Advising - mphadvisinggwu [dot] edu

Prevention and Community Health
PCH Practice Team - pchacadtraininggwu [dot] edu

For IRB related inquiries, please contact:
SPH Student IRB Liaison - SPHstudentIRBgwu [dot] edu

For all other inquiries:
Geri Kemper Seeley, gkemperseeleygwu [dot] edu - Program Manager, Applied Public Health

Descriptions of Practicum Experiences by Department

Biostatistics

In the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, the Practicum experience might include activities such as: working or consulting on research projects involving data entry, cleaning or analysis; designing studies in collaboration with investigators, including faculty or partners in government or the private sector; developing or contributing to manuscripts for publication; or developing complex modeling techniques, among many others. Work product examples include literature reviews, database development, written reports, presentations, etc.

Environmental and Occupational Health

In the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, the Practicum might include activities such as conducting literature reviews, writing proposals, or collecting and analyzing data.
- The Environmental Health Science and Policy Practicum allows students to analyze implications of policies relating to environmental and occupational health, participate in policy development, and assess and manage environmental and occupational risks, etc.
- The Practicum for the Global Environmental Health students might be based in a resource-poor setting around the world supporting the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs to create healthier communities.

Epidemiology

In the Department of Epidemiology, the Practicum experience might include activities such as working or consulting on research projects involving data entry, cleaning or analysis; designing studies in collaboration with investigators; conducting epidemiologic surveillance activities with local, state or federal departments of health; collaborating with federal agencies such as CDC, FDA, NOH, as well as multilateral, private sector or non-profit organizations. Work product examples include literature reviews, database or survey development, written reports, presentations, etc.

Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Graduate students pursuing the MPH Physical Activity in Public Health degree have completed practicums at the National Cancer Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, the National Parks Service, the American Heart Association, the Pentagon Fit to Win Program and many nonprofit organizations. Graduate students within the MPH Public Health Nutrition program have completed practicums at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, the Capital Area Food Bank, and at the US Department of Agriculture.

Global Health

Practicum experiences within the Department of Global Health, for Global Health Epidemiology and Disease Control; Global Health Policy; Global Health Program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation; and Humanitarian Health students range from working in the field in a resource-poor setting around the globe, to supporting the implementation of global health programming while being based in a high-income country. Depending on the track, a Global Health student is following, examples of their Practicum activities could include designing a monitoring and evaluation plan, developing country policy briefs, conducting primary research, writing a manuscript for publication, etc.

Health Policy

MPH@GW

The MPH@GW program's APEx opportunities are infinite and are unique to each student depending on their interest, location, career experience, and prospects. MPH@GW students engage at the local, state, and/or federal government levels on health issues working with nonprofits, for-profit corporations, non-governmental organizations and government organizations. Students are all over the world, and so is their practicum work! Students may engage in work ranging from programmatic, to policy, to statistical, to strategic planning, to epidemiological, and more. Some examples of APEx work products are communications plans, white papers, presentations, programming data, and developing analysis for public health options.

Prevention and Community Health

The Department of Prevention and Community Health (PCH) consists of four tracks: Community Oriented Primary Care; Health Promotion; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Communication and Marketing. PCH defines academic public health practice as partnerships between members of the department and other community stakeholders that strengthen interactive governance systems, foster the development of health-promoting environments and organizations, enhance community stakeholder capacity to perform essential public health functions, and enable the department to achieve its research education missions all with the goal of improving the population's health.
- Examples of PCH practicum activities could include but are not limited to:
  - the application of meta-governance tools and strategies to analyze, develop, and administer policy, programmatic, and advocacy approaches;
  - the assessment of the general public and at-risk populations' individual, community, organizational and societal needs; and
  - the design, implementation, or evaluation of health interventions and initiatives that promote individual and population-level behavior change.

APEx Resources