Join us for a virtual SPH alumni career panel. Hear from three SPH alumni about their journey after graduation. Panelists will share insights into their career journey, job search tips, managing life-work balance and more. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during the webinar.

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Panelists:

Senka Hadzic (MPH ’08, Public Health Administration & Policy)

Senka Hadzic is a 2008 graduate of the public health administration and policy program and currently works as a project facilitator at the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI). In this role, she facilitates evidence, measurement, and data analysis education and support for the MN Health Collaborative. The MN Health Collaborative is a group of influential leaders from 16 health care organizations working on thorny issues facing our communities such as mental health care and access, suicide prevention and intervention, and the opioid epidemic. Hadzic volunteers on the SPH Alumni Society’s Opioid Work Group and has mentored SPH students.

Ellen Saliares (MPH ’14, Community Health Promotion)

Ellen Saliares (MPH ’14) is the Director of Sexuality Education at the Annex Teen Clinic. She has a B.A. in Sociology from Grinnell College and a Master of Public Health in Community Health Promotion from the University of Minnesota. She has worked at the Annex for over five years. In her role at the Annex, Ellen manages programming, works with funders, supervises staff, engages in organizational leadership, and facilitates educational programming. She is a member of several collaborative groups and advisory councils including the Minneapolis Urban Initiative for Reproductive Health and the Robbinsdale School District Community Education Advisory Council. Ellen serves on the Minnesota Public Health Association Governing Council and co-chair of the Membership Committee. She has published peer-reviewed research on adolescent sexuality in the American Journal of Sexuality Education and the Journal of Sex Research. Ellen has been on the planning committee for events including Minnesota Adolescent Sexual Health Summit and Hennepin County’s Awaken the Inner Leader youth conference. In her free time, Ellen enjoys doing needlepoint and volunteers teaching adult English Language learners. 

Patrick Williams (MPH ’17, Public Health Informatics) 

Patrick (Pat) Williams (MPH ’17) joined Catholic Relief Services(CRS) after graduating from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 2017 with an MPH in Informatics. He has 7 years of project management and research experience spanning 3 continents and several sector areas including health, migration, education, and peace building. Currently, he is leading a 5-country effort to address violent extremism in the Sahel region of West Africa.  Based in Washington, D.C.,  Pat alternates between representing CRS in Congressional offices on the Hill and meeting Tuareg rebels in Burkina Faso. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, he has spent 6+ years living and working in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Laos, and India and speaks English and French. Pat holds a bachelor’s degree in counseling psychology & geographic information systems.  As a delicious piece of righteous failure, Pat recently withdrew from a DrPH program (3 years in) after realizing that following his passions does not require a Doctorate. Weekends are now spent tossing a disk and reading…for fun.