PH Student Stories

Eva Greenthal, MS/MPH ’18, shares how a class assignment inspired her Applied Learning Experience and how she designed her own ALE.

"Young people have a responsibility to lead our country and move our country forward."

Tufts’ Applied Learning Experience (ALE) provides students with real-world experience designing and implementing a public health project.

Public Health students at Tufts University School of Medicine are studying to meet the rising demand of the global health profession. Michelle Liu, BA/MPH ‘12 is working to meet this demand as a global health management consultant at KMPG International.

How Vishakha Ramakrishnan’s (MPH ‘16) love of data and passion for community health paved a path to the Centers for Disease Control.

Reece Lyerly (MS-Nutrition/MPH ‘17)

"I was drawn to Tufts for a number of reasons including the affiliation with the medical school, the focus on health communication as a core component of prevention, the location in greater Boston."

"When I was working in the field...I discovered that it was the large public health programs that had the most significant impact."

"I have been passionate about educating myself and others to create change that will curb the overwhelming obesity epidemic since my freshman year of high school."