Michaela
Murphy,
MPH/MSW Candidate
Co-Chair
Student Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan
Michaela Murphy graduated with her Bachelor's of Science in Social Work this past May, and immediately entered into a dual degree Master's program in Social Work and Public Health at the University of Michigan. She focuses her research on domestic and sexual violence outcomes, with a special interest in substance use. She hopes to one day create trauma-informed programs to address substance use in pregnant women and survivors of abuse.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: The IPE Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is a student-run committee that serves as a collaborative community for all the health professional schools and officially recognized interprofessional education (IPE) organizations at the University of Michigan. For the 2020-2021 academic year, the SAC co-chairs determined there was a need to improve the IPE experience for students across the health professional schools, increase engagement with interprofessional education, and improve communication among interprofessionals. The aims of the project were to identify structure-based…