Students and Faculty Visit French School of Public Health

Psychiatric Epidemiology Training fellow Katherine Keyes was among the inaugural group of Mailman students to visit the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Pub-lique (EHESP) in Paris.

Ms. Keyes, Emma Benn of Biostatistics and Ephraim Shapiro of Sociomedical Sciences, travelled to Paris with Epidemiology faculty members Drs. Ezra Susser and Habib Ahsan to participate in the EHESP’s Doctoral Network in Public Health Conference.

The conference showcased outstanding and innovative research projects by both students and faculty, with the aim of encouraging the sharing of data, perspectives, and methods, and building new opportunities for research collaborations between the schools.

The EHESP doctoral students were generous and gracious hosts, treating the Mailman students to meals, city tours and an outing to the historic cathedral at Reims. Ms. Keyes, Ms. Benn, and Mr. Shapiro came away very impressed by the EHESP students’ work, and equally impressed by their hospitality.

The Mailman School has been developing a relationship with EHESP to facilitate exchange between faculties and students and promote collaboration and synergies in public health education, research, and practice. The School's participation in the conference is one step towards realizing those goals.