MPH Student Research Projects

A Master of Public Health (MPH) degree is offered at the University of Massachusetts Medical School - through the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. The degree is granted through and accredited by the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at UMass in Amherst. The courses are taught in Worcester by faculty from both campuses. The MPH Program curriculum is designed to enable health care professionals to earn a degree while engaged in professional activities. Listed below are several of the MPH projects completed by MPH students over the past two years. Many of these students are mentored by departmental faculty.

Ailis Clyne, MD, MPH
Vehicle Safety Seat and Booster Seat Use Among 4 to 8 Year Old Children at a Hospital-based Pediatric Primary Care Office

Tiffany Colacchio, MPH
Drugs: From Phases to Pharmacies

M. Christine David, DO, MPH
Predictors of Weight Loss Goals in a Cohort of Post-Partum Women

Jessica Desrosiers, MPH
The Medical Home Model: Strategies for Improved Implementation Utilizing Disease Management Service

Stephen Haynes, MPH
Are MEI Intubations Performed by UMassMemorial Paramedics Disproportionally Distributed Based on a Factor Related to Time as a Paramedic?

Kurt Horst, MD, MPH
Comparison of the Care Provided by Paramedics (EMT-P) and Intermediate Level Care Providers (EMT-1) in the Prehospital Treatment of Diabetic Patients With Hypoglycemia

Katherine Kelley, RPh, MPH
Concordance Between Self-Reported Reasons for Use of Prescription Medication and Approved Indications in the Ambulatory U.S. Population Using Data from the Slone Survey. Do Patients Know Why They are Taking Their Prescription Drugs? 

Anne Knutson, MD, MPH
Use of Quality Improvement Methods to Encourage Early Identification and Treatment of Sepsis

Sruthi Krishnan, BDS, MPH
Patient Satisfaction Survey: Dental Department of Family Health Center

Celeste Lemay, RN, MPH
Results of a Dental Patient Satisfaction Survey of People Living with HIV/AIDS Receiving Dental Case Management

Indira Mahidhara, MD, MPH
The Reported Incidence of Tick Borne Illnesses and Their Co-infection in Massachusetts

Megan McCoy, MD, MPH
Does Follow-up Within 7 and 30 Days After Hospitalization for Mental Illness Impact Readmission in MassHealth Medicaid Beneficiaries?

Theodore McDade, MD, MPH
Regionalism of pancreatic cancer surgery to higher volume centers: Disparities in who benefits

Alyson Porter, MD, MPH
Prenatal counseling disparities in Massachusetts (2007-2009)

Mary Medeiros, MD, MPH
Impact of Body Mass Index (BMI) on Efficacy of Combination Therapy for Hepatitis C in the Prison Setting

Angela Shepard, MD, MPH
Improving the Quality of Quality Improvement: Assessing the Quality Improvement Curriculum at UMass Medical School

Wahid Wassef, MD, MPH
Quality of Life Measurement Tool: Chronic Pancreatitis

Leah Wentworth, MPH
Invisible and Vulnerable: Designing a Suicide Prevention Program for Middle-Aged Men

Jordan White, MD, MPH
Successful, Accessible Global Health in Interdisciplinary Medical Education

The following is a select list of current MPH research projects:

Michael Costa
Released HIV-Positive prisoners' retention and clinical outcomes in Ryan White HIV/AIDS program services

Chunying Li, MD
Comparison of body mass index and bioelectrical impedance in the association with blood pressure in teen girls: Results from the NGHS study

Reagan Savas
CMV and C.Diff Co-infection Post-Liver Transplant