Meet Porsche Clark, MPH

The USC MPH Online program allowed me the opportunity to further my education, while continuing to work in my current field and apply my learning in real time. During my time in the program and in the Health Education and Promotion track I learned how to identify and conduct evidence based research and understand the importance of engaging with the communities you wish to help. I was privileged to receive a stipend in 2015 and attend the national APHA conference in Chicago and was able to connect with other online USC MPH students as well as other public health professionals from around the country.
This program offered me the ability to do research with other universities and hospitals during my practicum and my practicum work continued after graduation. I was recently listed as a co-author on two accepted research articles that were published in 2017. Now out of the program, I am taking the concepts and projects started in graduate school and applying them in practice and will be starting my non-profit entitled, “You are Not a Stigma” later this year, which is focused on reducing stigmas in relation to women’s health, intellectual disability, mental health and social economic challenges through education and providing resources.