University at Buffalo (UB)
Work alongside employees of the Niagara County Department of Health and receive guidance by a University at Buffalo expert in epidemiology and environmental health, who will support you with weekly informal feedback.
With this rotation, we aim to help you apply principles of health promotion and disease and injury prevention to a community population. We have designed this rotation to help you understand the roles and functions of the health department and its relationship with other health and human service agencies.
In our program, we’re committed to helping you reach your career goals. On the first day of the rotation, we’ll ask you to identify specific objectives you hope to accomplish by the end of the rotation — and our on-site supervisor will support you in your pursuit of these goals.
Our training will help you to:
You may also learn about superfund sites in the local community.
Are you interested in developing a proposal for an intervention to improve the health of the community? Do you want to learn to develop materials to educate and communicate health risks? You may have opportunities to gain those skills during this rotation.
Additionally, you can gain experience using information technology, online databases and existing databases to assess the overall health of the population — and we’ll help you apply that knowledge to develop programs to reduce health risks. By the end of this rotation, you should feel comfortable identifying and coordinating the integrated use of available resources to improve community health.
You will identify ethical, social and cultural issues relating to policies, risks, research, communication and interventions in public health and preventive medicine contexts.
Your rotation will be for two months.
This rotation is overseen by:
Victoria Ann Pearson, MBA
Deputy Public Health Director / Director Financial Operations