The Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship

Amanda was dual-placed in Milwaukee at the City of Milwaukee Health Department and the Center for Urban Population Health.

Amanda is from Cleveland, OH and received her Master’s of Clinical Epidemiology in August 2020 from Kent State University, with a focus on clinical trials. As a fellow with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship, Amanda was dual-placed with the Milwaukee Health Department and the All of Us Research Program with the Center for Urban Population Health. As a fellow, she had the opportunity to manage several projects where she was afforded the opportunity to flex her data analyses, stakeholder engagement, project management, program development, communications, and support for the Community Health Improvement Plan and Community Health Assessment skills. Overall, she believes the fellowship has provided her with rich experiences to be confident in whatever role she pursues next!

Coriann was placed in Wisconsin Rapids with the Wood County Health Department.

Coriann (she/they) received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Luther College and her Master of Public Health with a concentration in the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases from the Yale School of Public Health. Coriann completed their fellowship with the Wood County Health Department in Wisconsin Rapids. During their time there, they completed a variety of meaningful work. She co-authored a report on the health impacts of the Wisconsin Rapids Downtown Farmers Market, as well as created dashboards to reflect health outcomes relevant to the department’s Community Health Improvement Plan goals. They conducted a number of educational presentations on the impacts of stigma and discrimination on the health of the LGBTQ+ community to groups and organizations such as the Wisconsin Epidemiology Network, the Hmong American Center, PATCH teens, and the Wisconsin Association of Housing Authorities. She also created numerous graphics and posts for the department’s social media pages to ensure that important health information was available and accessible to the Wood County community. Post fellowship, Coriann is pursuing a Master of Science in Health Communication for Social Change at the CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy.

Angela was placed at UW Madison-Division of Extension Institute of Health & Well-Being.

Angela (she/her) received her BA in Public Health and English from Lehigh University, and her Master of Public Health in Public Health Administration and Policy from the University of Minnesota. During her time at graduate school, she was a Section Editor for the Public Health Review, which is the graduate student-led peer-reviewed journal at UMN. Her professional interests include tackling global infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. During her fellowship, she enjoyed partnering with the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health to provide civic engagement training for local program coordinators in Menominee, Dane, and Milwaukee County. Angela currently works at the CDC’s Office of Laboratory Sciences and Safety (OLSS) as a Health Equity Fellow to advance CDC’s CORE Health Equity Science and Intervention Strategy.

Mary was placed at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health.

Mary (she/her) received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. During her time in the fellowship, she was placed at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health. She worked primarily on the Environmental Health Capacity grant which aims to enhance capacity across the state to better address, prevent, and control the environmental health hazards that impact Wisconsinites. Additionally, she collaborated with the Bureau of Community Health Promotion, Maternal and Infant Mortality Prevention Unit on projects related to the infant, child, and maternal mortality prevention efforts. The projects centered on moving mortality prevention recommendations to action and implementation. After her fellowship experience, Mary accepted a position within the Bureau of Community Health Promotion at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health as the Title V Evaluator and Epidemiologist.

Julia was dual-placed in Madison at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Office of the Secretary, and Division of Public Health, Office of Policy and Practice Alignment.

Julia received a Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Languages and Literature with a minor in Chemistry from Boston University and her Master of Public Health with concentrations in Health Policy and Law, and Community Assessment, Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation from the Boston University School of Public Health. As a fellow, Julia supported the Governor’s Health Equity Council, the State Health Plan, Public Health Accreditation Board reaccreditation, a Legal Epidemiology Learning Cohort, and other projects. In all work she centered upstream policy, systems, and environment change through an equity lens. Julia will continue her State Health Plan work as a Population Health Improvement Strategist with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health.

Erik was placed in Lac du Flambeau with the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center.

Erik (he/him) received a Master of Science in Global Health from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in 2019 and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Luther College in 2016. Prior to being a fellow, Erik worked at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services as a team lead for the Wisconsin COVID-19 Response Team. As a fellow at Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center, Erik coordinated programs that support public health data, capacity, and leadership in and across a variety of projects. He works to understand how context affects health and how to implement programs that create equitable opportunities for health, and he supports Tribal public health and public health infrastructure within Tribal communities. After his fellowship, Erik continued his work with Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center as a Program Director and Epidemiologist.

Mariana was dual-placed in Madison at Centro Hispano of Dane County and the Wisconsin Division of Health Services- Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources.

Mariana (she/her) completed her Master of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin- Madison School of Medicine and Public Health where health equity was a central focus of her studies. Prior to her graduate studies, she completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin- Madison in Biology and Portuguese, with a certificate in Global Health. Throughout the Fellowship, Mariana's projects ranged from conducting quantitative data analysis, participating in the creation of an organization’s transformative evaluation plan, creating fact sheets, and facilitating lots of discussions. After the Fellowship, Mariana will be moving to Michigan and will serve as the Evaluation Coordinator at the Region V Public Health Training Center.