MSW MPH Program Well-Represented at the Georgia Public Health Association Meeting

On April 13th and 14th, the Georgia Public Health Association held their 86th Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with the Southern Health Association in Atlanta, Georgia.  The University of Georgia's MSW/MPH Program was well-represented at the meeting.

Recent graduate, Mumbi Mwaura, MSW, MPH (Dec '14) attended in her role as Secretary of the Career Development Section of the Georgia Public Health Association.

Audry Motlagh, BS (Spring 2015) presented a workshop on her work titled, "Veteran Health in Georgia:  Strategies for Integrating Community- and Government-Based Healthcare Systems," conducted with Dr. Matthew Lee Smith (Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavior at the UGA College of Public Health) and Dr. Heather Goltz (Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston-Downtown).

Ms. Mwaura and Ms. Motlagh joined Dr. Trina Salm Ward (MSW MPH Coordinator and Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, Health Promotion and Behavior and School of Social Work) to present a poster titled, "Preliminary Results from a Mixed-Method Evaluation of a Dual Master of Social Work - Master of Public Health Degree Program," co-authored with Dr. Patricia Reeves (Professor of Social Work at UGA).