Ready for career success?
The CSA will help prepare you to secure high demand jobs and advance in your public health career.
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The mission of the Career Skills Academy (CSA) is to promote and advance equity in career success for CUNY SPH students. This goal is accomplished by facilitating workshops on professional development and soft skills and increasing opportunities for intentional engagement with employers and industry leaders via partnerships and our signature masterclasses.
Sample of Past CSA Workshops:
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CSA offers two professional development tracks focused on helping CUNY SPH students excel in their chosen fields.
Each track offers CUNY SPH students the opportunity to meet leaders in the public health industry, build a network with a cohort of like-minded classmates, and gain professional soft skills that make job candidates stand out through our workshops and events.
Please check back soon for upcoming events.
Program Director
candace.lamb@sph.cuny.edu
Candace Lamb received a B.A. in Non-Profit Administration and Psychology from the University of South Carolina-Upstate and a M.Ed. in College Student Personnel from the University of Louisville. For several years, Candace was an Assistant Director of Career Services at the University of Louisville, specializing in diverse student populations, such as LGBTQ+ students and students with disabilities, engineering majors, and first generation college students. Candace also created Career Peers, a grant funded peer mentoring and advocacy program for first generation and low income college students, which was awarded an Ideas to Action grant in 2016. Candace is currently finishing a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. During this time, Candace has studied graduate student socialization in the LGBTQ+ community and the experiences of marginalized staff members in student affairs.
Program Assistant
assia.bourib74@sphmail.cuny.edu
Assia is a CUNY SPH MPH student, a dentist and an Apa Scholar who has worked in public and private hospitals in different countries since her graduation from Algiers School of Dentistry in 2007. She is a faculty member at the St. Paul School of Nursing in Staten Island. She enjoys teaching future dental and medical assistants as an allied health instructor.
“I was honored to attend and complete the CSA program for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 and I learned valuable skills that have positively impacted my teaching quality and will for sure better the level of my students,” Assia says. “As a program assistant, I hope to be a good asset to help prepare students to advance their careers in public health.”