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George Â鶹ÊÓƵ  has partnered with the Fairfax County Health Department to provide current FCHD employees with the opportunity to complete public health certificates. Some employees are going a step further and earning their master’s degrees in public health fields.  

Phazhon Nash, BS in Community Health ’21, says his George Â鶹ÊÓƵ education provided him with the skills necessary to ensure the present and future health of his community, while serving as the youngest elected member of the Roanoke City Council.

Just three and a half years after George Â鶹ÊÓƵ's College of Public Health created its PhD in Public Health in 2021, Kim McNally will be the first graduate to walk across the Commencement stage at EagleBank Arena this May.

Six graduate students from Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Department of Global and Community Health presented a four-pronged solution to address health care and homelessness among Washington, D.C., area women at the D.C. Public Health Case Challenge.

Samantha Harrison, who graduated this spring with a bachelor’s degree in community health with a global health concentration, says that discovering the community health degree provided her with a comprehensive way to achieve her ambitions to bring equity to communities through well-being. 

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s MS in global health primes future graduates for frontline public health initiatives

Epidemiologist and professor Amira Roess answers the most frequently asked questions about Mpox.

Alternative summer break trip provided a hands-on learning experience for students to study about Amsterdam's public health strategies

For Safa Yosufzai, the clinical science concentration provided the best of both worlds; she is building a strong foundation in public health education while meeting the prerequisites for medical school.

Existing health disparities are creating a bigger disadvantage for Black and low-income families and babies during the U.S. baby formula shortage.