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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nShade Olowookere \u201817<\/strong> James Carrier \u201813<\/strong> Lili Klayman \u201822<\/strong> Summer Gonsalves \u201816<\/strong> Andrew Laperche \u201816<\/strong> Ariana Spanos \u201814<\/strong> John Pangborn \u201816<\/strong> Heidi Weidele \u201817<\/strong> Jennifer Nunes \u201815<\/strong> Graduates from the URI College of Health Sciences program continue to make significant impacts on health in multiple settings Making an impact on health and health care doesn\u2019t mean necessarily becoming a nurse or doctor. The health care sector is not only about direct patient care. There are myriad other careers that offer the opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":10656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10673,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions\/10673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Policy Analyst, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <\/em>
Shade Olowookere is an analyst for the Center for Global Health at the CDC. Previously, she worked in the public health law office at the CDC\u2019s Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, providing technical assistance in strategic planning, data visualization, emergency management and legal preparedness. After graduating from URI, Olowookere earned a master of public health and master of health administration from the University of Georgia. Her recent work includes working to prevent sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment in global response settings, as well as support for the 2022 Ukraine regional response, and emergency recovery efforts among countries in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/969\/Carrier-2.jpeg\")
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Deputy Chief, Maryland Department of Health<\/em>
After graduating URI and earning his\u00a0MPH from Boston University, Carrier started as an epidemiologist in the Center for HIV Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Evaluation in the Maryland Department of Health.\u00a0He conducted routine surveillance for HIV and AIDS diagnoses, and monitored HIV surveillance data statewide. In 2020, he was promoted to deputy center chief in charge of HIV case surveillance, and now oversees a staff of 10, including field investigators, epidemiologists and health record reviewers who are responsible for conducting HIV case investigations throughout Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/969\/Klayman.jpg\")
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Teen educator, Woonsocket Health Equity Zone<\/em>
Klayman\u2019s work is based on promoting healthy teen development through outreach and by providing teens with the tools, knowledge and skills they need to make healthy and responsible decisions concerning their sexual and reproductive health. The core of her job is teaching health education in an underserved high school. She has conducted needs assessments, created a high school health education curriculum and presented lectures on diverse topics like healthy relationships and how to be an “askable adult” to community members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/969\/Gonsalves.jpg\")
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Compliance officer, US Department of Labor, OSHA<\/em>
After earning her bachelor\u2019s in health studies from URI, Gonsalves earned an MPH at Brown University before staring with the Department of Labor. Previously, she worked as a research associate and research scientist in environmental health at Brown. Gonsalves, an enrolled member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, aspires to address community and occupational health challenges through community gardening, STEM programming, food security and food sovereignty initiatives. In the summer of 2020, she re-enrolled at URI for a second bachelor\u2019s degree in biology. She is a master gardener who serves on several committees and boards aimed at improving and empowering public health outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/969\/Laperche.jpg\")
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Manager, Medical Staff Services, <\/strong>University of Florida Health Jacksonville<\/em>
Laperche, who earned an MBA from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, supports all hospital privileging and delegated credentialing for the 1,100 UF Health and community providers caring for the patients across 17 services at UF Health Jacksonville. Previously, he was at University of North Carolina health care as the Pediatric AGME Fellowships Coordinator, where he managed Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-related requirements for all nine accredited pediatric fellowship programs. He also worked at South County Health as a credentialing specialist and telecommunications team leader while a student at URI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/969\/Spanos.jpg\")
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Customer Success Manager, FitBit<\/em>
After receiving her health studies degree, Spanos earned an MPH from the University of Massachusetts in 2020. She has worked in the employer health and wellness field for UnitedHealthcare, PepsiCo, and Fitbit\/Google. Spanos has been part of the URI Health Studies Advisory Board Member since 2018 and has attended a number of career events for health studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/969\/Pangborn.jpg\")
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Project Manager, Publications, Vaniam Group<\/em>
Pangborn has extensive clinical and research laboratory exposure, has authored multiple scientific articles, presented findings at scientific symposiums, and performed research in multiple therapeutic areas, including breast oncology, epidemiology, ophthalmology, hematology, immunology and genetics.\u00a0He has served as a clinical research coordinator at Dana-Farber, a research support specialist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and a senior research program coordinator at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/969\/Weidele.jpg\")
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Senior Fatal Overdose Epidemiologist, Rhode Island Department of Health<\/em>
Weidele graduated from URI in with a concentration in global health and a minor in Spanish. After earning an MPH in epidemiology from the Brown School of Public Health, she began working at the Department of Health as a public health epidemiologist in the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, where she studied the connection between accidental drug overdoses and controlled substance prescriptions. In March 2020, she was activated as a part of Rhode Island’s COVID-19 response team with a primary focus on COVID-19 hospitalization data, working on the team which provided key dashboard metrics used for guiding the pandemic response. In 2022, Heidi became the state’s lead fatal overdose epidemiologist, studying the growing trend in overdose deaths, with the goal of informing prevention efforts and reducing the number of lives lost to the overdose epidemic. She continues to use the principles she learned from her global health studies at URI in this critical public health role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/969\/Nunes.jpg\")
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Physician Assistant, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless<\/em>
Nunes double majored in health studies and biology at URI before moving on to Tufts University in Boston, where she earned a master of public health and a Physician Assistant degree. She remained in Massachusetts where she has served as a physician assistant at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless for about four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"