Career Perspectives
Webinars
Topical career chats with our alumni and industry professionals.
Podcasts
Listen to our conversations with alumni to learn about their career paths, passions, and advice.
Cindy Abarca is a Senior Consultant at West Monroe. She was also a Fulbright Scholar, a Life Sciences /Public Health Consultant at Guidehouse, an Administrative Resident for Consulting Services and Supply Chain Management at Kaiser Permanente. She recently earned her MPH, Public Health at Brown University School of Public Health. Her MPH thesis title: The impact of Colombia’s Subsidized Health Insurance on preventive care utilization using instrumental variables. She also received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Honors in Public Health at Brown University and her Honors Thesis title: Examining Metropolitan Status and HPV Vaccination among US Women and Men ages 18-26 using 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data. She also recently graduated with a Master of Health Administration degree from the University of Southern California. In this talk, we will discuss the impact that public health has had on her career path, the benefits of multiple graduate degrees, memorable courses as a graduate and undergraduate student at Brown University, and the greatest career lessons learned to her path as a Senior Consultant!
Ayla Durst is a Research Project Manager Project Manager at Brown University Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies and a 2016 graduate of the Master's in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research interests and methodologies include alcohol/substance use, HIV, sexual risk behavior, qualitative data, and MISC coding. In this talk, we discussed her time as a graduate student at the School of Public Health, pursuing a career outside of academia, and lessons learned during her path in becoming a Research Project Manager!
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