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Session: Launching Your Career in Public Health
4112.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Launching Your Career in Public Health
This session will allow students to explore the field of public health and find ways to enhance their academic training through presentations by prominent public health figures. It will also give attendees an opportunity to consider their future in public health. Participants will learn what qualities and experiences employers are seeking in potential employees and how best to network and identify employment opportunities in their field of interest.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, the participant will be able to: 1) Identify ways to enhance his/her academic training, 2) Develop plans to assess career goals and opportunities, and 3) Infer implications for his/her own career in public health.
Organizer(s):Mariza Hardin, BS
Kristy A. Siegel, MPH, CHES
Facilitator(s):Mariza Hardin, BS
12:30 PMWelcoming Remarks
12:35 PMIntroduction of Panel Members
12:38 PM   Director, Public Health Advocacy, and Executive Director, Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, Research!America
Karen A. Goraleski
12:43 PM   Program Officer, Connecticut Health Foundation
Elizabeth M. S. Krause, SM
12:48 PM   Legislative Assistant, Office of Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis (CA-32)
Noelle Lee, MS
12:53 PM   Professor and Program Director, Department of Health Science, Towson University
Susan M. Radius, PhD, CHES
12:58 PMPanel Discussion
1:33 PMQuestions
1:53 PMConcluding Remarks
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:APHA-Student Assembly

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