Spring 2019: Meeting 4

Old Business

• Zaida Salame, Spring PHling Event

• Amber Brown, Public Health Practice & Community Engagement

• Alaina Beauchamp & Quanita Kendrick, Students for Sustainability

• Casey Thomas, SPH T-Shirts

Spring PHling• Zaida Salame, Vice President of Social

Affairs

• 45 Attendees, $1,500 fundraised

• Special thanks: Caroline McDougall, Julia Poynter, Bailey Gentile, Jordan Simpson, & Alex Lieberman

• Café Reconcile: Local venue addressing generational poverty, violence, neglect, and homelessness with its jobs and skills program for individuals ages 16 to 24

Commencement Awards

Service Honor Cord

https://is.gd/servicehonor

• Submission Deadline: April 25th

• Service hours are hours spent working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated with local nonprofit, independent, and community-based organizations focused on improving the quality of life for community residents. Specifically for public health faculty, staff, and students, in line with the School of Public Health’s mission, service hours focus on advancing the public’s health and addressing issues affecting the well-being of the state of Louisiana.

• Practice Experience, IPSA, SOAR, student worker, and paid service hours are not eligible for community service hours.

Staff Member of the Year Award

https://is.gd/BethSchmidtStaffAward

• Submission Deadline: April 26th

• The Beth Schmidt Staff Member of the Year Program is intended to be a formal method for acknowledging the contributions of individuals who are recognized by their colleagues as outstanding staff members.

• Nominations may be submitted by any employee in the School of Public Health, including staff, administrators, and faculty. Nominations must be submitted electronically via letters of support through REDCap. Nominations can be submitted at any time during the year. Nominations for the award are due the last Friday in April.

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Students for Sustainability

• Quanita Kendrick & Alaina Beauchamp

• Why: ArcGNO creates job opportunities for populations with intellectual disabilities by recycling Mardi Gras throws

In case you missed it…

The students won!

SPH T-Shirts

• 68 shirts ordered

• Expected arrival April 26th

• Pick up date/time to be circulated via email• Third floor reception area as

pick up location

New Business

• Alaina Beauchamp & Quanita Kendrick, Students for Sustainability

• Timothy Harmon, Stop the Bleed Course

• Martha Cuccia, NOLA Ready CERT

• Casey Thomas, Graduation Event, APHA Student Membership Lottery

• Leslie Saucier, Composite Portraits

• Daesy Berhorst, Pre-Commencement Ceremony & Reception

Students for Sustainability

• Alaina Beauchamp & Quanita Kendrick

• Earth Week Raffle Event

• $50 Raffle Entry

• This week!

Students for Sustainability

• Puppies in the Garden Event

• Event date and time to be determined

• Follow on Facebook: Raised Root Student Garden

• Follow on Instagram: @sfs.lsuhsc

Stop the Bleed Course

• Timothy Harmon, Emergency Medicine Interest Group

• Today, April 23rd in MDL 3 on the 4th Floor of the MEB

• First aid course providing basic bleeding control techniques like tourniquet use and wound packing

• Students who complete the course eligible to become assistant instructors for future courses

• Sign up circulated via email; tharm1@lsuhsc.edu for questions

NOLA Ready CERT

• Martha Cuccia

• NOLA Ready Community Emergency Response Training

• When: June 8th and 15th from 9am to 5pm

• Where: New Orleans EMS Headquarters, 2929 Earhart Blvd

• Free training in disaster preparedness and response; mixture of classroom sessions and hands-on activities

Graduation Event

• Celebration on May 8th from 11am to 2pm in LEC 303

• All are welcome: friends, family, students, faculty, alumni

• Free food, cap/gown photos, goodie bags for all attendees, door prizes and raffles, end of semester recap video, 2018-19 school year slideshow, and a Student Government Association class gift and awards ceremony

Pre-Commencement Ceremony & ReceptionAwards Ceremony

• May 15th from 3pm to 5pm

• Lecture Hall A / Room 228 in Nursing and Allied Health Building

Reception

• Chancellor’s Reception Center, MEB 3rd floor

All are welcome and additional details circulated via email!

Composite Portraits

• Leslie Saucier, Vice President of External Affairs

• Carl Kluttz, IT Department

• Continuing this week on Wednesday & Thursday from 12pm to 2pm in LEC 316

• Another session anticipated for the May 8th graduating students event

• Cap/gown headshots for our graduating students; emailed directly at no cost

Help us start another School of Public Health tradition!

APHA Student Membership Lottery

• Olivia Sugarman, Vice President of Professional Development

• Reopening now until May 7th

• Submit your name on the sph.lsuhsc.edu/sga webpage

Open FloorAdditional Announcements

As always… Visit our webpage to learn more:

sph.lsuhsc.edu/sga

And thank you for a fun, productive year!