News and Announcements - HBS PhD Newsletter - May 7, 2021

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Emily Melnick on successfully defending her dissertation "Beyond Risk: Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Perceptions of Social Support and Child Body Mass Index Using the Fragile Families Study." Congratulations Dr. Melnick and all the best for your Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Arizona State University.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Channing Tate on successfully defending her dissertation "Utilization of Hospice Care in Older African Americans." Congratulations Dr. Tate and all the best for the future beyond HBS!

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano on successfully defending her dissertation "The Impace of a Breastfeeding Promotion App on First Time Mexican-American Mothers in Association with Acculturation and their Cultural Lived-Experienes." Congratulations Dr. Jimenez-Zambrano and all the best for the future beyond HBS!

Congratulations Stephanie Chamberlin on being accepted into the PRB 2021-2022 U.S. Policy Communication Training Program! The U.S. Policy Communication Training Program builds on PRB’s 40-year legacy of training researchers to bridge the gap between research findings and the policy development process. While research often has profound practical implications, it must be communicated effectively to a variety of nontechnical audiences to influence policy and programmatic change. The U.S. Policy Communication Training Program prepares researchers to influence policy and practice through effective communication.

My name is Ashlyn Lange and I am from the Bay Area in California. I completed my BA in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and MA in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. My master's dissertation centered around differing perceptions of animal welfare between farmers, the media, and animal rights organizations. My current research interests include social determinants of health, community-based participatory research, and food disparities. I love to roller skate, eat spicy food, and hangout with my cat. I'm looking forward to moving to Denver and meeting you all!

I am a family nurse practitioner who returned to school for a mid-life/mid-career adventure in medical anthropology (completion of the master's anticipated in May, 2021). My interests in the doctoral program are around qualitative approaches to exploring issues of equity (and power) in rural primary care settings (and the impacts upon patient and staff experiences). When not in school or working, I am a parent of three boys and enjoy skiing, hiking, biking, reading, game playing and lots of eating! We are recent Colorado transplants and continue to enjoy exploring our new home state (recommendations welcome!). I have a BA in English from Middlebury College and a MSN from the University of California San Francisco (and a soon to be MA in Anthropology from CU Denver).   

Laura G. Meyer holds a B.A in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of Colorado and an MSW from Arizona State University. Laura’s research interests center on connection, resilience, and grief as they relate to well-being and health. During the summer of 2019, Laura studied at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston under an NCI R25 Fellowship to develop an empathic training tool for physicians. Laura has led various workshops on empathic communication for medical students, fellows, and, most recently for COVID-19 case investigators to help them respond to difficult situations. Today, Laura is the Program Manager for the Arizona State University COVID-19 Case Investigation & Community Response Program.

Paulina is the mother of three multicultural Latino children, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and the Whole Community Inclusion Program Manager for Jefferson County Public Health in Colorado. Paulina participates in initiatives focused on child and family health, health equity, and community engagement. Her areas of current work include promoting perinatal and infant mental health along the continuum of care; building community capacity to navigate health and education systems; facilitating organizational change to embrace linguistic and culturally responsive practices; and establishing community-based participatory programs to strengthen communities. Paulina likes to be with people, learn from and with others, and connect passions for meaningful work. 

Health and Behavioral Sciences Department Chair Dr. Sara Yeatman published "The impact of contraceptive access on high school graduation" in Science Advances along with co-authors Amanda Stevenson from the Department of Sociology at CU Boulder and Katie Genadek, Stephanie Mollborn, and Jane Menken from the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at CU Boulder. 

Read Online

Our Fall 2019 Colloquium guest speaker Dr. Mara Buchbinder from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has published her book Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying. Scripting Death explains how medical aid-in-dying works, what motivates people to pursue it, and ultimately, why upholding the "right to die" is very different from ensuring access to this life-ending procedure. If you would like to purchase a copy, use code 20W2896 for 30% off.

Learn More Online

The department has compiled a list of grants for graduate students. It is accessible to HBS graduate students via OneDrive. The document also includes examples of grants from prior HBS students from funding sources such as NIH, Fulbright, and NSF. We encourage you to look through the document to familiarize yourself with funding that supports endeavors like conference presentations, fieldwork, and dissertation write-up. 

If you have come across funding sources that are not included here, please email them to Shawna at shawna.guttman@ucdenver.edu.

Grant Database

If you would like to review dissertations by previous HBS PhD students, we have created an online database of publications that includes many of our previous students' dissertations from the past 20 years. We periodically update this database as students successfully defend.

HBSC Dissertation Database

Job description: Assist in the areas of video production and video editing for a series of five digital storytelling workshops with fifty community members focused on drug overdose prevention and harm reduction.

Date of position: 14 May 2021- 31 August 2021. Start date and positions are dependent on the finalization of a contract between CU Denver and CDPHE.

Rate of pay: $20 per hour. About 250 hours overall during the project period.

Requirements

• You must be a CU Denver graduate or undergraduate student (junior or senior standing with a GPA of 3.0 or higher)
• Applicants will be subject to a background check prior to hiring

Application

Submit your updated CV and a brief letter that addresses the items below to Marty Otañez, Chair and Associate Professor, CU Denver Anthropology Department, Marty.Otanez@ucdenver.edu; 415-306-4754. Please address the following in your submission:

• First and last name
• CU Denver email address
• Unofficial CU Denver transcripts
• Do you currently work for the University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus?
• What is your academic standing?
• What is your major?
• Why are you interested in this position? Please explain within in five sentences.
• What skills or past experience would make you a good assistant for this project? Please describe within five sentences.

Shawna is updating your graduate profiles on the website. Your profiles are a great way for potential employers and collaborators to get a sense of your research interests, published work, and awards.  If you would like your profile updated, please send the following to Shawna at shawna.guttman@ucdenver.edu.

• A high-resolution headshot (300 DPI with a larger pixel dimension, i.e. 5000 x 4000 pixels)
• Education and degrees
• Selected publications (if applicable)
• Courses TA'ed or taught
• A list of interdepartmental awards during your time in the program (i.e. - research award, service award, outstanding student, etc)
• A brief paragraph about yourself, less than 200 words. This can include:
  • Your research interests
  • Experience related to your field
  • Teaching experience
  • Examples of your work
• Optional: Links you would like to include to outside sources like researchgate, LinkedIn, Asnchutz profiles, etc.

Profile Examples

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