The Applied Learning Experience (ALE) is a vital and exciting component of the MPH and MS-Health Communication programs. It is a vehicle by which the faculty judges that students are ready for careers, as independent public health professionals. For students the ALE is often a bridge to their first jobs and the highlight of their programs of study. This site provides you with samples of students' most recent ALE projects.

Monique Brouillette, MS - Health Communication ‘08, Community Water Fluoridation: A Risk Communication Strategy, Preceptor, Ms. Jamie Corliss, Oral Health Task Force, Health Care for All

Brenda Caron, MS - Health Communication ‘08, Giving Back: Providing Research Subjects with What They Give Us, Preceptor, Dr. Beth Dawson Hughes, Tufts Human Nutrition Research Center

Jessica Cohen, MPH - Epidemiology/Biostatistics ‘08, Profiles of Participants in the School Breakfast Program: Who are they?  What do they eat? Preceptor, Joanne Guthrie, MPH, PhD, RD, Assistant Deputy Director for Nutrition, USDA Economic Research Services, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program

Stephanie Dorvil, JD/MPH Candidate - Strategizing Race And Ethnicity Data Collection, Preceptor, Dr. Michael Chin, Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector

Meena Doshi, MPH ‘08, Epidemiology/ Biostatistics, Assessment of Influenza in U.S. Elderly, Preceptor, Alfred DeMaria, MD, State Laboratory Institute, State of Massachusetts

Yolanda Finegan, MPH - Epidemiology/Biostatistics ‘08, Prevalence and Factors Associated With Non-Suicidal Self Injury Among Adolescents in Massachusetts's Public Middle Schools, Grades 6-8, Preceptor- Dr. Teresa Anderson, PhD, MSW, Center for Community Health, Mass Dept. of Public Health

Joanne Maddock, MPH – Nutrition ‘08, Cardiovascular Disease: Disparity in Rural Maine, Preceptor-Debra Wigand, MEd, CHES, Program Manager, Maine CDC Cardiovascular Health Program

Mawuli Nyaku, MPH - Environmental Health ‘08, Sustainable Intervention for the Prevention off Urinary Schistosomiasis in Kwabeng, a Rural Ghanaian Town, Preceptor, David Gute, MPH, PhD, Professor, Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Heather Petersen, MS - Health Communication ‘08, SADD For Parents: Promoting the Parent-Teen Relationship Through the Web, Preceptor, Deborah B Henderson, SADD-Students Against Destructive Decisions

Marlena Shin, JD/MPH Candidate, Newton Health and Human Services: A Local Health Agency Moving Forward Towards Improving its Retail Food Protection Plan, Preceptor- J. David Naparstek, ScM, Health Commissioner, Newton Department of Health and Human Services

Aarati Sridharan, MPH - Health Services Management & Policy ‘08, Evaluating the Nutritional Status of Children Participating in a Food Distribution Program in Panama, Preceptor, Odilia Bermudez, MPH, PhD, Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, Public Health & Family Medicine

Nathaniel Wadsworth, MPH - Epidemiology/Biostatistics ‘08, Lead Drinking Water Pipes in Boston, An Overlooked Problem, Preceptor, Eloise Lawrence, Staff Attorney, Conservation Law Foundation