Recent MCAH Alumni: Life After Graduation

April 19, 2021

We asked four recent MCAH alumni to briefly summarize their post-MPH career since graduation in a sentence or two.  Here are their responses. 

Cheralynn Corsack

Cheralyn Corsack

Cheralyn Corsack, MPH ‘19, works at Public Profit, an independent evaluation consulting firm that works with mission-driven organizations to help them use data to get better at what they do. Her current projects include after school programs, funders, and MCH-focused community programs using mixed methods. Says Cheralynn, “my days are filled with many things, some being client communications, interviews, qualitative coding and analysis, survey administration and collection, and quantitative analysis.”


Megan Bontempo

Megan Bontempo

Since graduating from the MCAH program in 2018, Megan Bontempo has worked as a mixed methods researcher for design teams focused on developing more just and equitable health systems. Her project work is both domestic and global and has included sexual and reproductive health, digital financial services, tuberculosis case-identification, and most recently COVID-19 contact tracing and vaccine support.


Christine Hotaru Naya

Christine Hotaru Naya

Christine Hotaru Naya, MPH ‘19, is a 4th year Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine's Health Behavior Research program. She is also currently a National Research Service Award F31 Predoctoral Fellow with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Her research interests are in psychological, social, biological, and behavioral predictors of obesogenic outcomes in pregnant women, mothers, and children. Christine's dissertation is on the association between prenatal sleep health and gestational weight gain in low-income Hispanic mothers in Los Angeles.


Helena Hutchins

Helena Hutchins

Helena Hutchins, MPH ‘19, is a second year ORISE fellow on the Child Development Studies Team at CDC, where she focuses on epidemiology and implementation science relevant to promotion of early childhood mental health and development. She has also contributed to CDC COVID-19 response efforts to promote emotional wellbeing during the pandemic and COVID-19 mitigation in schools.