Appendix V
Instructional Programs
V.B.2 MPH CapstoneProjects
2003–2005
Appendix V.B.2
MPH Capstone Projects
2003Name / Title
FATMA ABBAS / Total Quality Management Implementation in a For-Profit Health Care Organization in the Middle East
ABHIJEET ANAND / Human Papilloma Virus and its Interaction with STDs and HIV
THOMAS ARMINIO / The Impact of Commuting by Bicycle in the US on Greenhouse Gas and other Automotive Emissions
KO KO AUNG / Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Elderly
JAMY BARAHONA / Low-income Working Hispanic Immigrant Families Face Barriers in Accessing Prenatal Services: What can Maryland do to Increase Access?
HELEN BAROLD / Should AEDs be Over the Counter? A Policy Decision Analysis AED = Automatic External Defibrillator
MARK BEATTY / Emergence of Enterotoxin-Producing Escherichia Coli Serotype O169:H41 in the United States: A New and Dominant Serotype
KARA BLACK / Exploring Obstacles to and Opportunities for Professional Success Among Underrepresented Minority Medical Students
PETER BLOOMFIELD / Rapid Orasure HIV Screening Performed in an Urban Emergency Department
AMY BOORE / A critique of the Nation's Level of Preparedness for a Bioterrorist Attack
SHAHDOLCHT BOROUMAND / The Prevalence of Tooth Brushing among 3rd Grade Children and the Association
MICHELLE BOWERS / Morbidity Associated with Prophylactic Mastectomy for Women with High Risk of Developing Breast Cancer: A Proposal for a Prospective, Double-Cohort Study in Baltimore, Maryland
MELANIE BROWN / The Impact of Mental Health Treatment on Recidivism in Youth who Commit Violent Crimes
KERRY BRUCE / Social, Economic and Health Behavior Factors Affecting the First Neo-Natal Homevisit in the ASUH Java, Indonesia Project
MICHAEL CALABRIA / Improved STD Management in Low Resource Settings
DAWN CARLSON / Loss of Biodiversity and Effects on Human Health: Focus on Plant Species
DIONE CASH / Designing a School Based Fitness and Nutrition Program for Adolescents
GLADYS CHEN / Study Design: Evaluating the Developmental Course and Associated Developmental outcomes of Adolescents With and Without ADHD
ILIN CHUANG / A New Look on the Late-Onset Group B Streptococca Disease in the Era of Intrapartum Antibiotic Prophylaxis
ELIZABETH COBB / Family Planning and Abortion Decision-Making in the Republic of Georgia
COLLEEN COOPER / Grant Proposal for a New Educational Approach to Enhancing Self-Management of Diabetes
DANIEL COSTIGAN / Pre-PersianGulf War Morbidity Study: Patterns of Illness and Health Care Seeking Prior to the 1990 Gulf War
MEGAN COYLEWRIGHT / Federal Funding of Abstinence-Only Education: A Policy Analysis
AUBURN DAILY / Nation-wide Analysis of Existing Attempts to Criminally Prosecute and/or CivillyAdjudicate Intentional HIV \Infection by HIV-positive Individuals
DARSHAN DALAL / Effect of Lifestyle on Inflammatory Markers
KATHLEEN DEENER / An Eval. of Groundwater Contamination: Implications for Public Health and Tracking
PRACHI DUBEY / Burden of Unipolar Major Depression in the Geriatric Population
CLARISSA DUDLEY / Investigating the Rational for the Continued Use of Race Data in Epidemiology
ESEOVHE EGBORGE / The Real Problem: Under-Five Mortality Rate from Malaria in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria
GLORIA EKPO / Communication Strategies for Protecting Adolescents from Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) in The Gambia
JAMES ELLIOTT / Recreational Skydiving Fatalities in the United States a 10-Year Review
PATRICK ENDERS / Risk and Dose-Response Estimation for Potential Bioterror Agents
MICHELE FORZLEY / Counterfeiting and the Public's Health and Safety
DIANE FRANCISCO / Pre-delivery Maternal Migration in Bangladesh
CATHIE FRAZIER / Review of Environmental Engineering Work Done by PAHO with Funds from EPA
RANDALL FREEMAN / Community Health Workers in America
MARK FREESE / Bicycle Commuting for Environmental Change
YATIN GADGIL / Motivation of Health Workers in South Asia
ANURADHA GANESAN / Surveillance of the Distribution of Pneumococcal Serotypes in Children under 5 and its Implications on Use of Currently Licensed Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines
RAHWA GHEBREMICHAEL / Impact of Diabetes Duration on Health Beliefs and Self-Management Behaviors in UrbanAfrican Americans with Type 2 Diabetes
HARUMI GOMI / Action Plans for Controlling Measles in Japan:Strategies to be presented to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan
MICHAEL GOTTLIEB / Investigation of Public Health Law and Ethics Focusing on End of Life Issues
FLOR DE MARIA LOURDES GUTIERREZ / Predisposing Cultural factors For Pregnancy Among Latina Adolescents: A Formative Approach
JAMES HALEY / Decreasing the Morbidity Due to La Crosse Encephalitis in Southwestern W. Virginia
THEODORE HANF / Pilot Project to Gather Information on Male Sex Workers in Los AngelesCounty Between the Ages of 18 and 30
FETOUH HASSANIN / A Suggested Program Plan For Health Education To Promote Primary Prevention of Rheumatic Fever in Egypt
AMY HENDERSON / Water Quality Project—Honduras
MINNIS HENDRICKS / Reducing Campylobacter Infections, and Antimicrobial-Resistant Campylobacter Infections in Humans who Eat Poultry or Poultry Products
SARAH HENN / Mercury Toxicity in AmazonBasin Communities
JAMES HIGH / The AIDS Orphan Crisis in Rural Zimbabwe: Opportunities for Grassroots Initiatives
SETH HIMELHOCH / Does Presence of a Mental Disorder in AIDS Patients Affect the Initiation of Antiretroviral Treatment (HAART) and Duration of Therapy?
KEN HO / Differences in Demographics, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Patient Shows Versus No-shows in an Inner City Pediatric Clinic
MARY ANN HOGAN / Health Risk Evaluation of the Hazardous Chemicals at the Hanford Nuclear Waste Reservation
SABINA HOQUE / Investigation of Dietary Risk Factors Among Obese and Non-Obese Asthmatics
JE-JEN HU / Using Mobile Messaging System in Out Patient Department
SADAF IJAZ / A Proposal for Culturally Appropriate Shelter for Domestic Violence Victims of South Asian/Middle Eastern/Muslim Origin in DC Metro Area
CARRIE JEFFRIES / Selection of Non-Governmental Community Level Clinics in the West Bank and Gaza and their Clinic Attributes Leading to USAID funded Pharmaceutical and Disposable Distribution
HOPE JOHNSON / Grant Proposal for a Study of the Epidemiology of Hepatitis B in Suriname: Prospects for Intervention
RAVISHANKER KAMATH / Ceiling on Desires – Its Impact on Public Health and Global Environment
SHARON KARMON / Body Shape and Composition in Women with HIV: An Urban Cohort
RICHARD KAYNE / The Physician Workforce in Bangladesh: Challenges that Lie Ahead
KRISTIN KENYAN / Evaluating the Sustainability of Public Health Interventions: A Review of the Literature
SADAF KHAN / Contraceptive Social Marketing and Social Franchising: The Green Star Network, Pakistan. Quality of Client-Provider Interaction: A Plan for Evaluating the Client’s Perspective
GRACE KIGOZI / Mental Health in Uganda
TARA KIMBASON / Malaria Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Velingara DistrictSenegal, Implications for Health Education and Disease Control
FLORENCE KITABIRE / Assessment and Use of Innovative ways through which Community Can Support HIV PositiveWomen's Choice of Infant Feeding in Poor Resources Setting in Uganda
LAURA KNAB / Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Abuse Among Women
ROBERT KOLESAR / Environmental and Organizational Assessment of the Dominican Republic for the American Red Cross
HIROKO KOSAKI / The Effect of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) in Japan Measured by Return Rate
NICOLE KOUASSI / Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS: Empowering Women for Self-Medication
MARIAM LABINJO / Estimating the Burden of Disease from Road Traffic Injuries in Nigeria
ZAHRA LADAK / Smokeless Tobacco: An Opportunity for Public Health Response
TRAM LAM / Predictors of Cervical Cancer Screening among Vietnamese-American Women
MARNI LAVERENTZ / Evaluation of the Effect on Health Worker Performance from Introducing a New Integrated Supervision System in Uganda
RACHEL LEVINE / Research Activities of Internal Medicine Residency Training Programs
AMY LEWIS / Ocular Injuries in Nepal
ANNA LOPEZ / Skin Biopsy for the Determination of Immunopathogenesis of Rash in Volunteers Vaccinated with an Experimental Live Dengue Vaccine
LISA LOWERY / STD-related Health Care Utilization in Sexually Experience African-American Adolescents
NEENA LYALL / Integrating Preventive and Curative Health among the Dalits (Untouchable/Scheduled Caste) by Reaching the Grassroots
SUSAN LYNCH / Causality in Epidemiology and the Law: The Tobacco Litigation Case Study
GAVIN MACGREGOR-SKINNER / A Qualitative Assessment of Operational Readiness and Possible Risks to Public Health from Disposal of Dead Animals During a Declared Emergency
MARK MAIRE / Man-Made Malaria Epidemics
DAVID MAJURE / Evaluation of the Role of the Private Health Care Sector in the Health Status of Pakistan
CATHERINE MAULSBY / Proposal for the Adolescent Health Clinic Recently Developed as part of the Rakai Project in Uganda
NNENNA MBA / A Review Child Mortality Trends in Nigeria
NICHOL MCBEE / Cost Effectiveness of Thrombolysis as an Intervention to Treat Intraventricular Hemorrhage
VIRGINIA MCBRIDE / Evaluating a Cost-Effective Means to Assess Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Performance
DAHLIA MCGREGOR / Research Proposal to Identify the Serotypes of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Causing Invasive Disease in Jamaican Children
TESFAMICHAEL MEHARI / Improving Access of Mental Health Services to Refugees in Tanzania
TRACY WOLFF MOORE / Evaluate the Impact of Air Pollution on the Racial Disparity in Low Birth Weight Rates in the United States using PRAMS and EPA Data
HEATHER MORAN / A Qualitative Study of Community Experience with Gut Rehabilitation of Urban Houses
ELAINE MORRATO / FDA Pediatric Drug Policy: Characteristics of Drugs Granted Exclusivity
LORNA BARUNGI MUHIRWEI / Reforming the Oral Health System in Uganda: A Primary Health Care Approach
YE MON MYINT / Situational Assessment of HIV/AIDS in Myanmar's Borders
ZIKULAH NAMUKWAYA / Trends and Differentials in Adolescent Sexual Behaviors in Rakai, Uganda, 1994-2002
EYERUSALEM NEGUSSIE / The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Ethiopian Children: Policy and Program Recommendations
ROSE NESBITT / Reduction of Schistosomiasis through Community Health Education in an Irrigation Scheme in Tanzania
ZARIN NOOR / Research Proposal - The Context and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence Among Afghan Women Living in Refugee Camps in Pakistan
MICHAEL NOTTIDGE / Bone Sarcoma in Seer: A Comparative Analysis of Survival for Conservative Versus Radical Surgical Treatment
NGOZI OBIKILI / Improving Immunization Coverage in Nigeria
VIVIEN OFFODILE / Evaluation Plan of the Effectiveness of Redesigning Work Station as an Intervention for Low Back Pain in the US Workplace
LYNNETTE OLEMBO / An Evaluation of the Program Effectiveness of the Point-of-use Water Chlorination in Zambia: A Focus on the Safe Water System
SAAD OMER / Geographical Determinants of RSV Infection in Lombok, Indonesia
REBECCA ORENDORFF / Reproductive Services at School Health Centers: Review of the Literature and Steps for Successful Implementation
NURIYE ORTAYLI / Recovery of Fertility After Implant and IUD Use Revisited: A Detailed Analysis of Data for Post Marketing Surveillance of Norplant Study
ANA PALACIO / Strategies to Improve Healthcare Access in Ecuador
ANNE PALAIA / How Effective is the Reduction of Unintended Pregnancies among HIV Positive Women, in the Overall Reduction of HIV Prevalence, Compared to Interventions Targeting a Reduction of Mother to Child Transmission?
KAPIL PARAKH / Cost Effectiveness of Interventions for Intestinal Helmith Infestations
BRENDA GUMBS PETTY / The Adverse Health Effects Of Urban Sprawl On Metropolitan Inner City Residents
TAMARA POLLAK / Designing a Survey that Uncovers Factors that both Prevent and Facilitate Disclosure of Sexual Violence
DAN PORTER / What do people do when they get sick? A Protocol Proposal for a Survey of Pre-Clinical Ambulatory Patient Behavior Patterns
ERIC RAMIREZ / The Desires of Men: Nationalism and the Formation of Reproductive Intent in a Mayan Community, Chiapas State, Mexico
JULIA REHWINKEL / A Study of the Caribbean Regional Network of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (CRN+)
JEAN RINALDO / Proposal for Training US Army Internal Medicine Residents in International Humanitarian Medicine and Disaster Management
TERESA ROGSTAD / Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines: A Review of Methodologies used by Specialty Societies and Disease-Specific Organizations
GABRIEL RYB / A Longitudinal Study of Suicide after Traumatic Injury
JASON SACKS / The Emergence of Dengue: A Look at it's Possible Impact on the U.S. Through the Hawaii Outbreak
ELIZABETH SANTORO / The Emerging Threat of Antibiotic Resistance: A Public Health Analysis of VRE
ALBERT SARNO / Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Fetal Determinants of Childhood Hypertension in Fetal Growth Restriction: An Extension of the Barker Hypothesis
RAKESH SARWAL / Study of the performance of Essential Public Health Functions: Lessons from a Pilot Study in KarnatakaState of India
NICHOLAS SCHARFF / Hepatitis C in the Jail Inmate Population: Policy Considerations
DANIEL SCHWARTZ / Livestock Farming and Aquaculture: Impact on the Environment and Public Health
ERICA SESSLE / Targeted Universal Access to Nevirapine for the Prevention of HIV Vertical Transmission: Results from the Rubaga Nevirapine Implementation Project, Kampala, Uganda
NEHA SHAH / Malaria Prevention in Fulani people of Nigeria
FATHI SHEIK-ADAN / Poor Structure and Performance of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response, Region Five – Ethiopia
EUGENE SHUM / Performance Measurement and Benchmarking
AMIT SINGH / Epidemiology and Etiology of ALRI in Bangladeshi Infants
VEENA SINGH / An Overview of burden of vitamin A deficiency among school aged Children (5-15 years) in the South-East Asian region
VIJAY SINGH / Screening for Male Domestic Violence Batterers in a Primary Care Health Setting
KAREN SMITH / Racial Disparities in Reporting and Receipt of Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Md
SOMCHAI SRIPLIENCHAN / Cervical Infection of Human Papillomavirus in HIV-1 Infected Women in Chiang Mai
GARY STEIN / Proposed Study on the Disparity between Medicaid, Managed Care and Private Insurance for Medically Challenged Children
SAMANTHA STOKES / Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: A Comparative Critique of the Mexico City Policy
MARIA ISABEL SUAREZ / The Use of Emergency Contraception to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy in Adolescents in Inner Cities
NITAL SUBHAS / Meena Initiative - The Transformation of the Lives of Girls through the Development of Decision-making, Problem Solving, and Comm. Skills
AYAKO TAKEI / Development of Cancer Risk Assessment Training Program for Food Safety in Japan
BILLIE TANG / Physical Inactivity of Adults in the United States; Analysis and Recommendations Specific to the State of Hawaii Utilizing the Problem Solving Framework
CHUNDAK TENZING / Proposal to Study the Prevalence of Antibody to Rubella in Girls in Nepal
ANNIE TESSIER / The Cost-Utility of Support Personnel in Providing Rehabilitation Services
EMMA TSUI / Guidelines for the Use of Qualitative Methods in the Development of Interventions to Improve Birth Preparedness
KIRAN TURAGA / Comparison of Different Clinical Specialties on Evidence Based Therapy
DOUGLAS VAN ZOEREN / Water Quality and Human Health on the Chesapeake Bay
JOANN VILLANUEVA / Evaluation Plan for Outreach to Encourage Treatment Seeking and Family Reunification by Substance Using Parents in Baltimore
GITA VISWAM / Economic, Political, Social, and Ethical Implications of Providing Antiretroviral Therapy to Children in Sub Saharan Africa
Margaret Walsh / Injuries In Unrestrained Pediatrics Patients In The Texas Panhandle
YAN WANG / Impact of Intervention Program on Medical Utilization among Brain Traumatic Injury Patients
JEANNE WARFIELD / An Environmental and Public Health Disaster in Bangladesh
KATHRYN WATSON / Evaluation of Proposed Nationwide Environmental Health Tracking Systems
RACHEL WEBER / Project Proposal for a Peer Educator HIV/STI/Family Planning Intervention in a Refugee CampSetting
MARTIN WELTZ / A Prospective Single Arm Pilot Phase II Study of Darbepoietin Alpha in Patients with Locally Advanced or Non-Resectable Head and Neck Cancer and Locoregionally Advanced Nasopharygeal Carcinoma (NPC) Receiving Chemotherapy +/- Radiation Therapy
RYAN WESTERGAARD / Adolescent Inhalant Use as a Predictor of Adult Heroin Use
MONICA WOLDT / The plan for an Evaluation of Programs to Prevent Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Mozambique
AUDREY WOOD-NONGRUM / Validation of Participatory Data Gathering by Communities in Measuring Birth Rates and Infant Mortality by using Retrospective Pregnancy Histories
FUMIKO YOKOTA / Aviation Safety and Injuries
SARA ZWERLING / Accuracy of Scientific Research for Laypersons Found on the World Wide Web Using the Problem Solving Methodology
TERESA ZYCZYNSKI / Vegetarianism: Safe for the Environment, but is it Safe for the Individual?
2004
Name / Title
Tsion Abdi / HIV and Refugees
Olufemi Adenuga / Child Spouses and Injured Wives: Addressing Early Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sachin Agarwal / Trans Esophageal MRI in Conjunction with Lipid Lowering Measures
John Agwunobi / Incident Command Systems and Public Health Response
Ehtisham Akhter / Arthritis in India/Pakistan
Akinlawon Akintayo / Improving Access to Mental Health Care in Ogun-state Nigeria; An Educational Approach
Stefan Ambs / A Proposal for An Epidemiological Prostate Cancer Case-Control Study
Ping An / APOBEC3G Genetic Variants and Their Influence on AIDS
Lee Arcement / Assessment of the Effect of a Disease Management Model to Implement Evidenced-Based Process Measures in Indigent Patients in Rural South Louisiana with Systolic Heart Failure
David Asante / Male Involvement in Family Planning in Ghana
Denise Averbug / Determinants of Social Capital of Sex Workers in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Charles Baffi / Influence of Morbidity on Smoking Cessation in a Cohort of Smokers
Hossein Bahrami / The Effect of Lutein Supplementation in Preservation of Visual Function in Retinitis Pigmentosa; A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial
Dea Belazi / Incidence of Diabetes in Patients Taking Atypical Antipsychotic Medications in a Medicaid Population
Marian Betz / Hospitalization Rates and Diagnoses Among HIV and Individuals in a Multi-State Cohort in the United States, 2000-2001
Manisha Bharti / Associations between HIV Risk Factors and Western Blot Indeterminate Results
Ed Bini / Prevalence of Gallbladder Disease Among Persons with Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States
Gregory Bledsoe / Incidence of Injury in Professional Boxing Matches
Michael Blum / Prelicensure Assessment of the Safety of New Vaccines: The Role of Meta-Analysis
Shari Goldenberg Bolen / IGF-1 and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Rosemary Bolza / Running After the Kids: The Exploration of Interventions to Delay or Prevent the Development of Type II Diabetes, Using Input from Women Who Have Experienced Gestational Diabetes
Maria Borda / Community Mobilization to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes for Rural Women in Guatemala
Jonathan Brenner / Looking at Attitudes of Chiropractors Towards Routine Childhood Vaccination