Research Initiatives

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.

Mark Butterfield, MD, MPH
Dietary Change in the Partners of Cancer Patients Undergoing an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention

Marie Caggiano, MD, MPH
Re-testing for Chlamydia trachomatis in Massachusetts' Family Planning Clinics 

Laurie Forlano, DO, MPH
Prevention and Management of Childhood Overweight: Current Practices, Barriers to Care, and Training Interests of Primary Care Practitioners in Vermont 

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? 

Ricky Kue, MD, MPH
Use of an EMS Follow-up System to Improve Community Medical and Social Service Accessibility in High-Risk Elderly Patients 

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

Piper Lillard, DO, MPH
Determining the Relationship of Eating Patterns to Obesity in a Hospital Work Setting

Patrick McCabe, MPH
The Reversing of Atherosclerosis with apo-A-1 Milano Apolipoportein and Intensive Statin Therapy

Christopher Montiverdi, MPH
Emergency Vehicle Operations Courses: Are they effective in reducing the rates of ambulance crashes? 

Brenda Ngure, MPH
Kenyan Immigrants in the U.S.: Assessing Access and Impact on Healthcare 

William Porcaro, MD, MPH
Prospective QA Analysis of Paramedic Ability to Apply Selective Cervical Spine Immobilization 

Elizabeth Proctor-Gray, MPH
The Effect of Oral Contraceptives on Weight and Body Composition in Female Runners

Scott Terranella, MD, MPH
Local Public Health Emergency Preparedness: A Massachusetts Department of Public Health Re-Assessment of a Stratified Random Sample of its 351 Cities and Towns 

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

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