OMHHE Past Program Student Projects ~ 2011

Project: IMHOTEP is an eleven-week internship designed to increase the knowledge and skills of rising juniors and seniors and recent graduates of an undergraduate institution in biostatistics, epidemiology, and occupational safety and health. Since the inception of Project: IMHOTEP, interns have been placed in various centers, institutes, and offices (CIOs) within the CDC and various domestic and international agencies. To date, 530 students from Project IMHOTEP and 336 from PHSFP have gone on to receive graduate degrees and employment in the field of public health!

Internship Interns & Mentor Assignments

FY 2011 Project: IMHOTEP Internship Interns and Mentor Assignments
CDC National Center/Office/Institute /Division or Program	Intern	Project	Mentor(s)
Office of Minority Health & Health Equity, Office of the Director	Jamaal Allen	The Association between Mortality Rate Ratios and Residential Segregation among Residents in the Mississippi Delta Region	Karen Bouye, MPH, MS, PhD Ramal Moonesinghe, PhD
Office of Public Health Preparedness And Response; Division Of State And Local Readiness; Office of The Director	Antoine Barr	Identifying Promising Practice Criteria	Crista-Marie Singleton, MD, MPH
Morehouse School of Medicine; Community Health and Preventive Medicine	Shelton Bartley	A Community Health-Related Resources Assessment: West End	Robina Willocok, MPH, PhD
Morehouse School of Medicine; Community Health and Preventive Medicine	Danaya Bethea	Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Curriculum Based or Youth Development	Mary Langley, PhD, MPH RN, ICPS
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Education and Information Division	Patrice Bland	Occupational Risk Assessment and Hazard Banding	Stephen Gilbert, MS
Morehouse Schools of Medicine, National Center for Primary Care	Andrew Brunner	Family Influence on Genetic Testing Decisions among African Americans with Colorectal Cancer	Elvin Daniels, MD, PhD Toye Williams, MSPH
Office of Minority Health & Health Equity, Office of the Director	Benem Davids	Association of Community Health Indicators and Social Determinants of Health	Sonja Hutchins, MD, MPH, DrPH
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention; Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention	Orlando Davy	CD4 Cell Count and CD4 Percentage Association	Lillian Lin, PhD
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention; Division of STD Prevention	Edward Debrady	Public Health and Homeless Symposium and Workgroup & Literature Review of Transmission of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Homeless Populations	Samantha Williams, PhD
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Immunization Services Division	Blessing Dennis	Do Vaccination Rates of Children Living in Single Parent Homes Differ from Vaccination Rates of Children Living in Two-Parent Homes?	Karen Wooten, MA
Morehouse School of Medicine; Community Health and Preventive Medicine	Onyinye Edeh	Community Youth Mapping: Assessing the Educational and Health Opportunities available to Young People in the Atlanta Promise Neighborhood	Rakale Quarells, PhD
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention; Division of Tuberculosis Elimination	Hunter Harig	The Effect of Utilizing Alternative Population Denominators to Calculate National Tuberculosis Rates	Elvin Magee, MPH, MS
Sisterlove, Inc.	Ashley Hill	Black Women Clinical Trials, Tribulations, Trust and Truth	Lisa Diane White
Emory University ; Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing	Leima Hunt	African American Caregiver Perceptions of Necessary Support Mechanisms	Maryam Robinson, MPH Kenneth Hepburn, PhD/p>
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention; Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention	Janna Hutchinson	A Look at the Sexual Behaviors and Condom Non-Use among Male and Female Students Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities	Madeline Sutton, MD, MPH Yzette Lanier, MD, MPH
USEPA REGION 4	Willie Johnson	Analysis of Asthma Exacerbation Associated with Environmental Triggers	Solomon Pollard, Jr., PhD Heidi Lesane Egide Louis, PhD
Morehouse School of Medicine; Community Health and Preventive Medicine	Florence Kanu	Community Youth Mapping: Identifying Youth Related Resources in the Promise Neighborhood Zone	Rhonda Holliday, PhD
National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health; Education and Information Division	Anwesha Majumder	Development and Testing of Workplace Safety and Health Training Materials for Young Farm Workers in Ohio	Rebecca Guerin
Morehouse School of Medicine; Community Health and Preventive Medicine	Victor Mbachu	The Significance of Focus Groups for Pilot Testing Purposes in Construction of a Community Health Assessment	Lisa M. Goodin, MBA Tabia Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion; Division of Reproductive Health	Juliane Nguyen	Exploring Sexual and Reproductive Health Disparities Experienced by Youth	Taleria Fuller, PhD
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention; Division of STD Prevention	Loretta Odro	Baseline Assessment of Program Collaboration and Service Integration: Evaluating Organizational Collaboration and Integration Strategies	Shaunta Wright, MPH
National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health; Education and Information Division	Olufemi Oyedele	Developing and Validating Hazard bands for Occupational Chemical exposures	T.J. Lentz, PhD, MPH
National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health; Education and Information Division	Dominique Parker	Interaction of Occupational and Personal Risk Factors - Application of Modeling Approaches	Sudha Pandalai, MD, PhD
National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health; Division of Applied Research and Technology	Thao Phan	National Survey of U.S. Long-Haul Truck Driver Injury and Health	Edward Hitchcock, PhD
Morehouse School of Medicine; Satcher Health Leadership Institute	Brandon Ransom	I Am Woman: A Healthy New Me!	Kisha Holden, PhD Starla Banks, MBA
National Center for Environmental Health; Division of Emergency & Environmental Health	Jesabel Rivera	Understanding the Impact of Environmental Health Specialist-Network (EHS-Net) Research and Support	Kristin Delea, MPH, RESH
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention; Division of STD Prevention	TaNisha Roby	Estimating Absenteeism Cost Attributable to STDs	Kwame Owusu-Edusei, PhD
ATSDR; Office of the Administrator; Office of the Director; Division of Health Assessment and Consultation	Rylan Rosario	Questionnaire Development to Assess the Needs of the State Public Health Departments	Diane Jackson Hatice Zahran, MD, MPH
Morehouse School of Medicine; Satcher Health Leadership Institute	Tiara Sinkfield	Health Disparities Research and Policy Development for Diverse Communities	Starla Banks, MBA Kisha Holden, PhD
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention; Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention	Kamiyah Smith	30 Years of HIV/AIDS Capacity Building Helping Those Disproportionately Affected	Kimberly Hearn Murray, MS, PhD Ivory Kimbrough, MPA