Originally from Ghana, first-generation student Princess Magor Agbozo came to the University of Kentucky with a desire to help others. Now a junior at CPH, Agbozo feels that she has grown over the past few years as a student and is blazing her path to pursue a career in global health.

A Bachelor of Public Health from CPH offers students many paths to make the world a better place. With the undergraduate degree’s solid public health foundation, graduates are equipped with the tools to advocate, promote, and transform health care. 

CPH researchers, in collaboration with investigators from the College of Medicine and the College of Communication and Information at UK, and the Kentucky Department for Public Health, are leading a 5-year, $3.7 million project to study COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in Eastern Kentucky. 

The Kentucky Department for Public Health Viral Hepatitis Program (VHP) has created the first Hepatitis C Elimination Plan in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. CPH alum Dr. Dia Obonyo, VHP’s prevention coordinator, was instrumental in the development of the Hepatitis C Elimination Plan.  

The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) was recently awarded a $2.2 million grant to evaluate the Kentucky Access to Recovery (KATR) program, which helps individuals recovering from opioid use disorder or stimulant use disorder or who have a history of overdose from opioid use.

Dr. Meredith Duncan and Kory Heier recently presented their research posters at the American Heart Association's (AHA) 2022 Scientific Sessions, which attracts a global network of medical professionals and researchers that participate in lecture and discussions about basic, translational, clinical and population science.

Meet alum Kelsey Carter, Research Program Manager at CPH and first-generation graduate from the very first Bachelor of Public Health cohort in 2016. Originally from Scottsville, Kentucky, the birthplace of what would become the Dollar General store chain, Kelsey always somehow knew that she was going to the University of Kentucky.