Lauren Lamers

2013-2015 Cohort

Lauren Lamers received her MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Her previous public health experience includes collaborating on a variety of communicable disease, public health law, and maternal and child health research projects at the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minneapolis Health Department. She also volunteered as a Spanish interpreter at a student-run free clinic in Minneapolis. Lauren was placed with the Menominee Tribal Clinic in Keshena and the Shawano-Menominee Counties Health Department in Shawano. Her projects included developing data management and evaluation plans to track outcomes of youth obesity prevention initiatives and developing sustainable systems for collecting and disseminating local community health data. She also facilitated program planning and evaluation for school-based mental health initiatives. Preceptors: Faye Dodge and Jaime Bodden