Gifts in Action - Marsha Bievre-Baker

MEET MARSHA BIEVRE-BAKER

Thanks to the Paul Q. Peterson Scholarship Award for excellence in the practical application of public health delivery and research, Marsha Bievre-Baker, an MD/MPH graduate, was able to continue her research project and work towards her professional goal of improving the quality of reproductive health care for women around the world both as an obstetrician-gynecologist and as a public health professional. Marsha would have been unable to continue this project if it were not for the financial support provided by the Paul Q. Peterson award. Marsha intended to implement the project in her obstetrics and gynecology residency training program at the University of Southern California--Los Angeles County Hospital.

THE PAUL Q. PETERSON SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

The scholarship encourages and supports outstanding graduate/professional students who are interested in the practical application of public health delivery and/or research. The annual award is made possible by an endowment established by the SPH Alumni Association to honor Dr. Paul Q. Peterson, the first dean and founding father of the School of Public Health and is intended to further his efforts to improve the health of the community.

WHAT SHE SAYS

“The Paul Q. Peterson Scholarship Award has helped me progress towards this goal by providing me with an invaluable opportunity to continue my research project, Project Pace: Postpartum Adolescent Contraception Education. The goal of Project PACE is to determine the effectiveness of a one-to-one counseling approach in informing adolescent mothers about their contraceptive options in the immediate postpartum period.”