The MCH Section likes to highlight student fellows and student authors as a way to showcase the outcomes of the student fellow and student author programs and to continue the connection with them.

·         Ndidi N Amutah, doctoral student in maternal and child health at the University of Maryland, College Park is beginning to work on her dissertation proposal, focused on low birthweight and infant mortality in Washington, D.C.  Ndidi is also getting married on August 1!

·         Katie Baker received her MPH in May from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and will be beginning the DrPH program in community health at East Tennessee State University this fall.

·         Stacey Williams Lloyd received her MPH from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in December 2008. She is now a research associate with 3-C Institute for Social Development in Cary, N.C., where she continues to focus her work on addressing health disparities in under-served populations.

·         Tyra Totson received her MPH and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the LSUHSC School of Public Health.  She also received the Dean's Award for exemplary service to the school. Additionally, Tyra received first place for the oral presentation of her capstone project entitled "Centering Pregnancy in Louisiana: Findings from a Descriptive Study.”  She also completed her Schweitzer fellowship project, teaching a 1/2 credit health course to 9th graders at Sojourner Truth Academy in New Orleans.

·         Chinelo Ogbuanu graduated from the doctoral program in the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina with a PhD in public health. Chinelo was offered a position as the Epidemiologist 3 in the Birth Outcomes Epidemiology Unit at the Georgia Department of Human of Resources, Division of Public Health and will be moving to Atlanta to begin work this summer.