PH Student Stories

For her ALE, MS/MPH student Sylvia Chen planned and implemented a quality improvement project for a community-focused program to help people quit smoking.

Nina Leifer, MPH’18, shares how her search for an Applied Learning Experience project led her to the field of emergency management and her first job.

"My Applied Learning Experience (ALE) as a statistical analyst at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health offered me the valuable exposure of programming with SAS and working on a dynamic team."

"Tufts prepared me for my career in a number of ways beyond the necessary statistical skills to carry out my job."

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.