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2011 SOPHE Award Winners2010-11 SOPHE/CDC INJURY PREVENTIONSTUDENT FELLOWSHIPThis fellowship program recognizes, assists, and trains graduatestudents working on injury prevention projects from theperspective of health education or behavioral sciences. Therecognition represents the culmination of their year-long work.Oluwatoni (Toni) Aluko, BS, MPH(c), is a Master of<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Health</strong> student in the Community <strong>Health</strong><strong>Education</strong> program in the School of <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Health</strong>at the University of Maryland, College Park(UMCP). The purpose of her project is to assessmedical students’ levels of IPV training, and their beliefsregarding screening <strong>for</strong> interpersonal violence.Ashley Brooks Russell, BA, MPH, PhD(c), is adoctoral student in the Department of <strong>Health</strong>Behavior and <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Education</strong> at UNC, ChapelHill. Her dissertation, supported by the SOPHEstudent fellowship, investigates the relationshipsbetween the pubertal timing of boys and girls anddevelopmental trajectories of teen dating abuse.2010-11 SOPHE/ATSDR ENVIRONMENTALHEALTH FELLOWSHIPThis fellowship recognizes, assists, and trains graduate studentsworking on projects in environmental health education,environmental justice, or emergency preparedness from theperspective of health education or the behavioral sciences. Therecognition represents the culmination of their year-long work.Stephane Zephir McKissick, MPH, recentlyreceived her Master of <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Health</strong> degree fromMorehouse School of Medicine, with aconcentration in <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Education</strong> and <strong>Health</strong>Promotion. The focus of her project is tocontribute to improving the health and quality of life ofAfrican-American children who have asthma by utilizing theability of youth to relate and teach one another throughinteractive teaching.Elizabeth Kaster, MS, PhD(c) is a doctoralstudent in <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Education</strong> at Texas A&MUniversity. Her research interests include the roleof health education in emergency preparednesswith the goal of fostering healthy behaviorsbe<strong>for</strong>e, during, and after emergencies. Currently, she isworking on her dissertation, entitled “EmergencyPreparedness <strong>for</strong> Pandemic Influenza in Texas,” <strong>for</strong> which shewas awarded the 2011 SOPHE Fellowship in Environmental<strong>Health</strong> and Emergency Preparedness.2010-11 SOPHE/CDC HEALTH RELATEDQUALITY OF LIFE FELLOWSHIPThis fellowship is designed to recognize, assist and trainstudents working on projects that address populationhealth-related quality of life, defined as a person or group’sperceived physical and mental health over time, using thelens of health education or the behavioral sciences.Brad<strong>for</strong>d Jackson is a graduate student in theDepartment of Biostatistics at the University ofNorth Texas <strong>Health</strong> Science Center - School of<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Health</strong>, where he has been assisting in datamanagement and quality control <strong>for</strong> arandomized controlled clinical trial on Chronic ObstructivePulmonary Disease (COPD) <strong>for</strong> the past 2 years. For his 2011fellowship he explored the impact of COPD on <strong>Health</strong> RelatedQuality of Life using the 2009 Texas Behavioral Risk FactorSurveillance System data.Chandylen Nightingale, MPH is currently a <strong>Public</strong><strong>Health</strong> doctoral student in the Social andBehavioral Sciences at the University of Florida.Her project interests pertain to quality of lifeoutcomes <strong>for</strong> cancer survivors both in and offtreatment and their caregivers.VIVIAN DRENCKHAHN STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARDThis student scholarship provides support to both undergraduate& graduate level full time students in their pursuit of educational& professional development in health education.2011 Vivian Drenckhahn Scholarship WinnersPatricia Boston, MPH, CHES, DrPH(c)Patricia Boston is a doctorate of public healthcandidate at the Institute of <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Health</strong>, FloridaA&M University. Her dissertation is entitled,“Ability of Women to Overcome Household FoodInsecurity: Social Support, Social Support and Culture.”Candice White, BS, MPH(c)Candice White is a Master of <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Health</strong>candidate at East Stroudsburg UniversityDepartment of <strong>Health</strong> Studies. During hertime at East Stroudsburg University, Ms.White served as President of the Community <strong>Health</strong>Organization and has received a graduate assistantship <strong>for</strong>a system-wide initiative in substance abuse education.SOPHE 62nd Annual Meeting5

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