We want to know what you are up to now that you are out there in the world. Please email ogh@unc.edu and share your insights into the world of global health. Our students and faculty would welcome the opportunity to learn from your experiences.

Bill Brieger (MPH '75) worked at the African Regional Health Education Center at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, from 1976 until April 2002. While there, he taught MPH courses and conducted research in several areas including primary health care, village health workers, adolescent reproductive health, child survival, and social and behabioral aspects of tropical disease control. Bill still does consultancy, recently returning from a USAID Strategic Assessment missiont to Abuja, Nigeria, where he examined their child survival and reproductive health programs.

Katie Cretin (MPH '08) graduated from Maternal and Child Health and now works at Family Health International. During her MPH program, she served as the GRA for the Office of Global Health. Before starting her graduate program, Katie worked in the registrar's office in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. After receiving her BA degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in International Studies, Katie did the Peace Corps in El Salvador where she conducted workshops on health and the environment, and conducted health awareness campaigns around dengue fever and hygiene.  

Anne Goddard (MPH '83) has served as the country director for CARE in Egypt for the past three and a half years. In this position, she oversees the total operations of CARE, which are focused on addressing the underlying causes of poverty affecting the most vulnerable households in the poorest communities.

Steve Hodgins (DrPH '00) received his DrPH in 2000 through the joint HBHE-Public Health Leadership program. His dissertation received the UNC Mendel Sheps Dissertation Award for Demography. In 2000-02, he was technical officer with USAID in Zambia. 2002-09, he was chief of party with John Snow International for the National Family Health Program in Nepal. In October 2009, he moves to Washington DC to join USAID as Technical Director for their new Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) central project.

Lisa Langhaug (MPH '96) reports that she is still in Zimbabwe, now working as the evaluation manager for a community randomized trial of an innovative adolescent reproductive health program. The intervention includes a school-based curriculum incorporating reproductive health knowledge and behavior change, a program to ensure rural health clinics are more accessible to young people, and a community program that raises awareness about the pressures of adolescent. This project is based in Mutare, a city that borders Mozambique.

Mubiana Macwan'gi (PhD '90) is working at the University of Zambia, Institute of Economic and Social Research, as a research fellow in the Health Promotion Research Program.

Corrina Moucheraud in Nigeria during her summer practicum.