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Full Name and Credentials
Sarah Nechuta, MPH PhD

Title
PH Co-Program Director, Associate Professor

Office
RFH 203T

Phone
616-331-5537

Email
[email protected]

Bio
Dr. Sarah Nechuta is an epidemiologist and population health scientist focusing on cancer epidemiology, injury epidemiology, and perinatal epidemiology scientific research, education, and service. She is an Associate Professor for the Master of Public Health program. A key passion is teaching and mentoring in applied data analysis, public health science best practices, and epidemiologic methods. She is the Editor of the Michigan Journal of Public Health (https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/mjph/).

Professional Interests
Areas of interest for research, teaching, and professional service: applied data analysis, cancer epidemiology, breast cancer survivorship, injury epidemiology, epidemiologic methods (research and surveillance), perinatal epidemiology, interprofessional collaboration, and public health science best practices.

Education

*2009-2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*2009: PhD, Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
    Dissertation: A Population-Based Case-Control Study of Pregnancy-Related Factors and Maternal Breast Cancer among Younger Women Pre-doctoral fellowship in perinatal epidemiology, NIH T32 Training Program
*2005: MPH, Epidemiology, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
*2003: BS, Lyman Briggs Human Biology, Second major: Interdisciplinary Studies in Health and Humanities-cognate in psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

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