Capstone Projects
All CGH concentrators complete a substantial project focusing on the health of human populations. The project may reflect a significant civic engagement experience, a major research project, or a hybrid of the two. Students present their projects to the college community during a poster session held each Spring. Below you will find examples of the projects students have completed recently. Guidelines for the capstone projects are available here.
Wynonna Ardiansyah ’16 (Jakarta, Indonesia): Capacity Building to Tackle Food Insecurity
Omar Mansour ’16 (Salt, Jordan): Using Survival Analysis to Identify Risk Factors for Treatment Default among New and Retreatment Tuberculosis Patients in Kenya
Matthea Roemer ’16 (Lehighton, PA): Implementing a Regional Nutrition Program in Rural Senegal
Andjelka Radevic ’16 (Rozaje, Montenegro): Product Liability Law and Public Health
Chloe Shumaker ’16 (Princeton, NJ): Reaching the Unreachable: Linking Poverty Reduction, Social Protection, and Tuberculosis Care Services in Kenya
Lily Alexander ’14 (Takoma Park, MD): The Ecology of Poverty of Chagas Disease in the United States: The Invisible Population of the US-Mexico Borderlands
Rebecca Gans ’14 (Briarcliff Manor, NY): Choice and Childbirth for Queer Women in Amsterdam
Kate Adelsheim ’14 (Palo Alto, CA): Female Sterilization Use of Low-Income Women in Mumbai, India
Mollie Mayfield ’11 (Hillsborough, NC): “Cooking Matters: Nutrition, Knowledge, and Empowerment to Eliminate Child Hunger”
Luisa Paredes ’11 (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic): “Addressing the Health Necessities of Hispanic Immigrants in the Twin Cities”
Dominika Šeblová ’11 (Prague, Czech Republic): “Challenges of Injury Prevention in the Czech Republic”
Mina Tehrani ’11 (New York, NY): “Stories and Cesareans: Prenatal care for Somali patients at a Minneapolis Clinic”
Cheryl Zogg ’11 (Fargo, ND): “Understanding Infrastructure: An Analysis of Healthcare Systems in Bangladesh”
Sharmila Raghunandan ’10 (Bangalore, India), “An Analysis of the Effects of Unemployment on Suicide Rates”
Bryce Slinger ’10 (Raleigh, NC), “Emergency Caregiver Burnout: A Rural South African Case Study”
Soukeyna Sylla ’10 (Dakar, Senegal), “Toward Free Access to HIV/AIDS Antiretroviral Drugs: A Senegalese Initiative”