Student Profiles
Literature and public health come together around Africans’ personal stories
"Hands-on work in the field of psychology"
Engineering student explores health care systems for the digital age
Inside an epidemiology laboratory
Psychology major joins laboratory to study eating disorders
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Literature and public health come together around Africans’ personal stories |
Name: Suzanne W. Undergraduate major field(s): Literature, Biology (pre-med) Goals for her Paris Field Study semester: Perfect her spoken French and figure out if her public health was really what she wanted to pursue after college. Placement: URACA - NGO for and by Paris African communities focusing on public health and culture Responsibilities as intern: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Subject of research: Personal stories and AIDS: Discourse analysis of twenty-one African AIDS patients in France talking about their disease. And... "Not only can I now hold a conversation in French without pantomime but I’m sure about my public health choice and maybe want to focus on women’s health after seeing the positive effects URACA has had on the community." |
"Hands-on work in the field of psychology" |
Name: Anna R. Undergraduate major field(s): Psychology and French Studies Goals for her Field Study semester: “To ameliorate my formal French writing skills and to learn more about how to help mentally disturbed individuals through hands-on work in the field of psychology.” Placement: Henri Mondor Hospital Psychiatry Department Responsibilities as intern: ![]() ![]() ![]() Subject of research: Using Behavioral and Cognitive Theory with Bipolar Patients Suffering from Extreme Anxiety And... After IFE, Anna used her experience both in an internship at Massachusetts General Hospital working on behavioral disorders and in translating and directing the physiologically complex characters of Koltès’s Roberto Zucco. |
Engineering student explores health care systems for the digital age |
Name: Stephanie G. Undergraduate major field(s): Industrial Engineering Goals for her Field Study semester: : Streamline her professional interests by exploring healthcare IT. Placement: GIP- DMP (French ministry of health- public task force for personal digital medical file) Responsibilities as intern: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Subject of research: The Personal Digital Medical File (DMP) as a Response to the Need for National Strategy and for Greater Interoperability And... Stephanie continues to work in the field as an application analyst in clinical information systems at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. |
Inside an epidemiology laboratory |
Name: Sydney F. Undergraduate major field(s): Anthropology with a concentration on Communities and Public Health Goals for her Field Study semester: “To gain strong experience working with public health professionals and be involved in a public health issue/Expand my knowledge of career options in public health.” Placement: Laboratory specializing in mathematical modeling applied to epidemiology Responsibilities as intern: ![]() ![]() ![]() Subject of research: A Study of Asthma Cases Treated by General Practitioners in France And... Parallel to her research paper, Sydney wrote a scientific article on her research and submitted it to a medical journal for publication. |
Psychology major joins laboratory to study eating disorders |
Name: Sarah B. Undergraduate major field(s): Psychology, French Goals for her Paris Field Study semester: Combine French studies and Psychology major by learning first-hand about mental health care delivery in France. Placement: Research assistant in the Social Psychology Laboratory of EHESS (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) Responsibilities as intern: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Subject of research: Obesity prevention in France focusing on normative and cognitive influences on food behavior. And... Sarah arrived in the laboratory just as a study of obesity was being organized, and she was given responsibilities for initial documentary research, designing the survey tool, and assisting in conducting the interviews that were the basis of this research project. |