Every year in the United States, colorectal cancer claims more lives than traffic accidents. Todd Lucas, C. S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health, is working to improve colorectal cancer screening and prevent needless loss of life from cancer.
According to the American Diabetes Association, about 25 percent of seniors have diabetes—and 6.2 percent of people with diabetes also have COPD, CHF, and CKD. John Clements, assistant professor in MSU’s online Master of Public Health program, is turning to public health science to address diabetes outcome disparities for the elderly.
Spartan in public health Sue Kim, MPH ’17, an influenza data analyst for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for tracking population-based rates of hospitalization due to severe influenza-related illness across five counties in Michigan.
Mohamed Z. Satti, assistant professor in MSU’s online Master of Public Health program, is an expert in infectious diseases caused by parasites, and by infections transmitted from animals to humans. He also studies the connection between climate change and vector-borne diseases. Satti says the link between applied work and public health aims at trying to find immune responses that will help us control infections within populations.
