Monday November 7 was an eventful day in the CREATE Health Lab!
In the morning our doctoral candidate Masoomeh Hajizadeh Oghaz successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Summer Food Access for America’s Children: A Qualitative, Collective Case Study Analysis of the Summer Food Service Program.” Masoomeh’s research investigated expert perspectives on barriers to implementation and participation in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) in Nebraska. She presented her initial findings in June at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual conference in a poster titled “Barriers to Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) Implementation Before and After COVID-19: A Qualitative, Collective Case Study.“
In the evening, 1500 miles away in Boston, our PhD student Falah Rashoka received a Student Abstract Award for “excellent student research in public health education and health promotion” from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion section of the American Public Health Association at their annual meeting. At the conference he presented his research in a poster entitled, “A Multilingual Community Health Intervention to Improve Healthcare Access among Yazidi Refugee Community: Pilot Test Results.”
Congratulations, Masoomeh and Falah! 👏👏👏
We are so proud of each of your efforts to make the world a better place. 🌍
