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Reid Plimpton MPH'19 is Working With Maine’s Immigrant Communities and Gaining Experience in Community-Based Participatory Methods
Reid Plimpton found the topic of his Applied Practice Experience by first identifying the “public health skills he was interested in adding to his professional toolkit.” At the top of the list was experience in community-based participatory methods, project evaluation, and policy development.
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Mandy Miller MPH'19 is in a New York State of Mind, Examining How Lawmakers Can Expand Access to Affordable Health Coverage
For her Applied Practice Experience, Mandy Miller turned her attention to analyzing data on New York’s individual health insurance market and investigating what kind of policies New York State could adopt to create a sustainable health insurance system.
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Stoddard Davenport MPH'19 and Colleagues Are Bringing Public Health into Private Consulting
Stoddard Davenport Davenport and his colleagues at Milliman’s Denver Health Practice are using their skills as consultants and researchers to help their colleagues across the insurance industry gain a deeper understanding of the opioid epidemic as a public health crisis.
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Will Erickson MPH'19 Believes the Patient Should Be the Hero of Their Own Story
As a union organizer and process improvement coach, Will Erickson believes in the power of a group that’s working toward a common goal. So perhaps it’s not surprising that for his Applied Practice Experience (APE), he chose to work with Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) in Eastern Massachusetts focusing on the group visit (GV) model of healthcare delivery.
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It’s all in the algorithm!
In an effort to improve what can often be a frustrating and confusing search for information about cancer treatment options, two PhD students at The Dartmouth Institute, Katie Saunders and Curtis Peterson, are using machine-learning technology to rate and evaluate whether the materials patients receive is clear and helpful.
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Jazz, Vampires, and Patient Preferences: Dartmouth's First-Ever Healthcare Foundations Offers a Humanistic Approach to Training Future Healthcare Leaders
Over the course of an intensive week, faculty and clinical experts guided students through a week of exploring how the humanities can offer new perspectives and strategies for improving patient care.
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MPH Student Spotlight: Melanie Wang
Prior to enrolling at Dartmouth, Melanie Wang spent five years in procurement consulting, helping supply chain teams across Fortune 500 clients transform their procurement organizations by delivering savings and impact.
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MPH Student Spotlight: Karin Pivaral
An interest in public health and health policy next led Karin Pivaral to The Dartmouth Institute, where she also serves as the chief health services officer for a medical support unit in the Army Reserves.
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MPH Student Spotlight: Tarun Jella
With medical school as his eventual goal, Tarun Jella continually seeks a balance between professional development and personal accountability for systemic injustice—a theme he hopes will carry throughout his career.
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MPH Student Spotlight: Juan Jose Delgado-Hurtado, MD
After completing his first year of an endocrinology fellowship, Juan Jose Delgado-Hurtado transitioned to Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency (LPMR) program, which enables residents or fellows to obtain an MPH degree from The Dartmouth Institute.
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