Four Dornsife Students Win Awards at College of Physicians Annual Public Health Poster Session
Two Community-Driven Research Projects Among Winning Posters
Brittany Koch, MPH ’16 (second from left), Brenna Aumaier, MPH ’16 (second from right), and Jesse Goldshear, MPH '16 (far right), are pictured among winners receiving health policy and research awards at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2016 Student Public Health Poster Session.
May 16, 2016
Four students from the Dornsife School of Public Health received awards in health policy and research at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2016 Student Public Health Poster Session.
“This year's submissions were highly competitive, even more than in years past,” said Alexis Roth, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health. Roth mentored two of the awardees and attended the event. “The students displayed a strong command of public health research and practice. I was thrilled that 4 out of 5 awards went to Dornsife SPH students.”
Brenna Aumaier, MPH ’16, was presented a research award for her poster titled, “Towards Developing a PREP Continuum of Care for Persons who Inject Drugs”.
Jesse Goldshear, MPH '16, received a research award for his work examining the prevalence and correlates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea among persons who inject drugs in Camden, New Jersey.
Both Aumaier and Goldshear completed these research projects as their second year Community-Based Master’s Projects, with the Camden Area Health Education Center. They were funded as part of Philadelphia’s Community-Driven Research Day, an annual event that encourages collaboration between researchers and community-based organizations who have research questions that they are interested in answering about evaluating a program's impact on healthy neighborhoods.
Brittany Koch, MPH ’16, was presented a health policy award for her work in evaluating a pediatric clinic-based food insecurity screening and referral program. Koch currently works as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Dornsife SPH-affiliated Center for Hunger-Free Communities.
Evelyn Arana, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Community Health and Prevention, received a research award for her poster titled “Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mammogram Utilization among Women with Intellectual Disabilities: A Sequential Mixed Methods Approach.” Arana’s research is funded by an R36 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ).