Maryland SPH’s Ms. Amutah Selected as APHA Senior Fellow
Ms. Ndidi Amutah, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland School of Public Health in College Park, has been selected as an American Public Health Association (APHA) Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Section Senior Fellow for 2009-2010 academic year. After serving as a student fellow during the 2008-2009 school year, Ms. Amutah was chosen to mentor the new student fellows that were selected for the coming academic year. As part of her Senior Student Fellowship, she will assist MCH section leaders with projects related to evaluation of the MCH fellowship program and increasing program-related web-based resources.
At Maryland, Ms. Amutah is a second-year maternal and child health doctoral student in the department of family science. Her current research interests include maternal mortality and morbidity, health disparities, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in ethnic minority populations. She holds a bachelor of science in public health and a bachelor of arts in African studies from Rutgers University and a masters of public health in maternal and child health from the George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services.
For more information about the University of Maryland School of Public Health in College Park, visit http://sph.umd.edu/.
