Lessons from Melissa (Moose) Alperin, EdD, MPH, MCHES

Educational Landscapes

Melissa (Moose) Alperin, EdD, MPH, MCHES is director of the Executive MPH program at the Rollins School of Public Health and runs a training center, funded by HRSA, providing training to the public health workforce in the eight states in the Southeast. In this episode Moose talks about how, while pursuing a liberal arts education, she stumbled into public health by discovering something called community health, then eventually went on to get a master's in public health, specializing in health promotion education. Further, while she initially pursued a PhD program in in instructional technology, she ultimately entered a different program and completed an EdD in higher education management. Moose's words of wisdom include "I think it's so important to like what you do and to more than like what you do. And then I think once you have found what it is that you love to do, that we talked about this earlier, but surrounding yourself with smart people and capable people and a team and being willing to take risks when something isn't working."

Resources

• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
• Home - Society for Public Health Education - SOPHE
• Home - GPHA: Georgia Public Health Association
• American Public Health Association — For science. For action. For health.