{"id":82819,"date":"2013-08-26T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=82819"},"modified":"2015-12-14T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:01:29","slug":"convocation-for-public-health-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/08\/convocation-for-public-health-graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation for Public Health Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_82822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82822\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/today.uchc.edu\/images\/gregorio_gerrantana.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-82822  img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_7374davidandSenatorTerryG-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"David Gregorio, director of Graduate Programs in Public Health, and State Senator Terry Gerratana, who gave the convocation address for the public health graduate students. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_7374davidandSenatorTerryG-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_7374davidandSenatorTerryG-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_7374davidandSenatorTerryG-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_7374davidandSenatorTerryG.jpg 700w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Gregorio, director of Graduate Programs in Public Health, and State Senator Terry Gerratana, who gave the convocation address for the public health graduate students. (Photo provided by Barbara Case)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A one-day orientation for the University of Connecticut\u2019s incoming public health MPH and Ph.D. students was held at the Health Center Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The day included information about program requirements, library resources, student organizations, and a meet-and-greet with faculty advisors.<\/p>\n<p>David Gregorio, director of Graduate Programs in Public Health, welcomed the new students and gave a talk about professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, to help celebrate the coming year, a convocation was held for all of the students, faculty and guests.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speaker, state senator Terry Gerratana, gave a talk on \u201cAdvancing Public Health in CT through Advocacy.\u201d Gerratana is the state senate majority whip and chair of the legislature\u2019s public health committee.<\/p>\n<p>Other convocation speakers included MPH candidate Evan Timme and alumni speaker Linda Estabrook, the executive director of the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Gerratana, state senate majority whip and chair of the legislature\u2019s public health committee, was the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":82822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2459,2076,179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-82819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-students","category-research","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 08:03:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82819"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107139,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82819\/revisions\/107139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/82822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82819"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=82819"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=82819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}