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SOPHE / CDC Student Fellowship Press Release
August 06, 2007 Six Stellar Students Receive SOPHE/CDC Awards Injury Fellowships in Behavioral Research The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are pleased to announce Itsumi Kakefuda, MS; Benyamin Margolis, MPH, CHES; Kristie Hebert Martinez, MS; Elizabeth Ann Reed, MPH, CHES; Despina Stavrinos, M.A; and Erin Winterrowd, BA as the 2007 SOPHE/CDC Student Fellows in Injury Prevention. Ms. Kakefuda, a PhD student at Colorado State University, will examine factors associated with bicycle helmet behaviors and attitudes among college students. Mr. Margolis, a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will examine the effects of childhood neglect on adolescents’ perpetration of violence, considering the mediating effects of social bonds. Ms. Martinez is a PhD student at Old Dominion University, where she will utilize time perspective to predict risky driving behaviors among college students. Ms. Reed is a PhD student at Harvard University School of Public Health, where she will examine the relationship between intimate partner violence and other non-intimate forms of violence and perceived context of involvement in street violence among Black men attending urban health care centers. Ms. Stavrinos is a PhD student at The University of Alabama at Birmingham and will examine the underlying mechanisms for pedestrian injury risk for children with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder using virtual reality. Ms. Winterrowd is a PhD student at Colorado State University and will explore the relationship between friendship, social isolation and suicidality among Mexican-American adolescents. All fellows will receive a $1500 stipend, one-year student membership in SOPHE, and an opportunity to present their work at the SOPHE annual meeting in Washington, DC, October 31-November 2, 2007. The SOPHE/CDC fellowship program aims to support the training of new injury prevention researchers and practitioners, and to fill an important void in the professional preparation of behavioral scientists and health educators in the field. For more information on injury prevention at CDC, visit www.cdc.gov/injury. For more information about the fellowship program, visit SOPHE’s web site: www.sophe.org, where applications for the 2007-2008 fellowship program will be available at the beginning of 2007. All applications must be postmarked on or before July 31, 2007. #### Founded in 1950, the Society for Public Health Education’s mission is to provide leadership to the profession of health education and health promotion, and to contribute to the health of all people through advances in health education theory and research, excellence in health education practice, and the promotion of public policies conducive to health. For more information, see www.sophe.org |
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