Featured Student

Lacreisha Ejike-King, PhD Student

 

Lacreisha Ejike-King is a current student in the PhD program at the University of Tennessee where she is concentrating in Health Education and Health Behavior. Her interests include health disparities, social determinants of health, and community-based participatory research (CBPR). Lacreisha aims to work as a Public Health Advisor for a federal-level agency.

Her array of experiences with the Department has garnered her international experiences. In April of 2010, she traveled to the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Additionally, she traveled to Kenya during the summer of 2011 and again in the winter of 2011.

Lacreisha served as a Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department for 2 years. She is currently a Graduate Research Assistant serving as Project Coordinator for a collaborative National Science Foundation (NSF) grant with the Department of Child and Family Studies, the Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project (Kenya), and Kenyatta University (Kenya). This grant will fund interdepartmental and international collaborations that will provide students with international, practical experience. Additionally, Lacreisha has served as the Project Manager on the Healthy Transitions project for nearly three years and has been one of the Public Health Representatives on Dean Rider’s Graduate Student Advisory Board for two semesters.

In her fleeting moments of free time, Lacreisha enjoys sleeping, eating, and watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

 

 

 

Contact the Department of Public Health

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390 HPER
Knoxville, TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-5041
Fax: (865) 974-6439
dph@utk.edu

Admissions Coordinator:
Wendy Smith
(865) 974-5041
wsmith12@utk.edu

 

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