{"id":1731,"date":"2018-04-03T16:11:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/health-studies\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2019-01-14T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:35:05","slug":"major-to-attend-prestigious-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/2018\/04\/03\/major-to-attend-prestigious-summer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Major to attend prestigious summer program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgina Miranda, a junior Health Studies major, from Pawtucket, RI, will be a part of the prestigious <strong>Future Public Health Leaders Program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UM-SPH)<\/strong>.\u00a0 The program is a 10-week residential pr<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1261\/gina.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1731]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1734 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1261\/gina-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>ogram at UM-SPH that will expose attendees to careers in public health and offer leadership training, orientation to the public health disciplines, and real-world work experience.<\/p>\n<p>Georgina explains &#8220;I am more than ecstatic to be a part of something as imperatively beneficial as this program, not only to me, but also to the communities I want to serve. I&#8217;m always willing to work with other people trying to create things that will better the people around us, ourselves, and eventually, the world. Public Health is a field I can see myself doing a lot of good in with my time here and I just want to get started! &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she\u00a0 notes that &#8220;The Health Studies program here at URI has pushed me in places I never thought I&#8217;d be able to go and I&#8217;m forever thankful for the passion they have in seeing its students prosper in the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Georgina plans to work with community organizations and non-profits for underserved communities on issues concerning chronic diseases and educating them in health awareness.\u00a0<strong>Congratulations, Georgina!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgina Miranda, a junior Health Studies major, from Pawtucket, RI, will be a part of the prestigious Future Public Health Leaders Program at the University of Michigan,\u00a0Ann Harbor.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":1924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}