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For the first time, a ɫ����ƵCOM student has been awarded the Paul Ambrose Scholars Fellowship.  Eugenia Edmonds, MS I, recently received the fellowship from the Paul Ambrose Scholars Program, which exposes health professions students to influential public health professionals and prepares them to be leaders in addressing population health challenges at the national and community level.

Included in the honor is a scholarship to attend a leadership symposium in Washington, D.C. and conduct a community-based health education project at the recipient’s institution. Edmonds’ project is to research the issue of hand hygiene for nursing-home residents by living the life of an elder in a nursing home for two weeks. She will participate in the “Learning by Living Project” that was developed by Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., Department of Geriatric Medicine, who is Edmonds’ ɫ����ƵCOM sponsor.  While living in the nursing home 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Edmonds will be given a diagnosis and will receive standard procedures of care, while researching hand hygiene by applying ethnographic research methods.