{"id":4796,"date":"2025-04-14T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:48:45","slug":"dr-gregorio-secures-1-9m-contract-to-strengthen-cts-public-health-workforce-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/2025\/04\/14\/dr-gregorio-secures-1-9m-contract-to-strengthen-cts-public-health-workforce-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Gregorio Secures $1.9M Contract to Strengthen CT\u2019s Public Health Workforce Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/GregorioDavid-scaled-e1700077999618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/GregorioDavid-scaled-e1700077999618-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Gregorio\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/GregorioDavid-scaled-e1700077999618-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/GregorioDavid-scaled-e1700077999618-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/GregorioDavid-scaled-e1700077999618-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/GregorioDavid-scaled-e1700077999618-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/GregorioDavid-scaled-e1700077999618-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/GregorioDavid-scaled-e1700077999618.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gregorio, Professor, UConn\u2019s Department of Public Health Sciences was recently awarded a $1,900,000 contract from the Connecticut Department of Public Health titled \u201cEducation-Enhanced Pipeline to a Public Health Science Corps\u201d. \u00a0The effort is intended to increase the number and professional abilities of public health workers in Connecticut, while simultaneously fostering a statewide culture that promotes public health readiness in communities.\u00a0 Activities supported by this funding include engaging with the Storrs and Regional campuses in efforts to encourage undergraduates to consider careers in public\/population health by highlighting careers and academic opportunities, assisting high schools to offer courses in public health and epidemiology through UConn\u2019s Early College Experience, and implementing a UConn Certificate on Leadership for individuals preparing to lead public health and human service organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Gregorio, Professor, UConn\u2019s Department of Public Health Sciences was recently awarded a $1,900,000 contract from the Connecticut Department of Public Health titled \u201cEducation-Enhanced Pipeline to a Public Health Science Corps\u201d. \u00a0The effort is intended to increase the number and professional abilities of public health workers in Connecticut, while simultaneously fostering a statewide culture that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 18:20:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}