Stephane Labossiere

Student Biography
Mr. Labossiere aspires to become a public health professional in the areas of chronic disease prevention, global health, health disparities, and aging. He was selected in the summer of 2014 from among 1,300 applicants to be one of the 47 Columbia Public Health Scholars funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He aims to achieve the following long-term goals: (1) build a community health center in Haiti; (2) build Haiti’s first school of public health; (3) advance the field of global health through research, practice, and promotion; and (4) start a scholarship fund for students in Haiti and in the United States—which would allow deserving students to study and serve in impoverished communities and countries in the areas of public health or medicine. As an undergraduate and graduate student, Stephane has won over 15 scholarships, including one from the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). He has completed internships with the United Nations, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York University School of Medicine, The American Federation for Aging Research, and he also worked as a Clinton Health Matters Initiative Intern at the Clinton Foundation. For the summer of 2016, Stephane started his Pre-M.B.A. certificate program at Harvard Business School, in which he hopes to aquire the essential business skills for his work as a future founder and CEO of a community health center. Stephane received his master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University as the 2016 Outstanding Student in Community Health Education. He is also a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). At the completion of his certificate program, Stephane hopes to work for a healthcare center in New York City. Additionally, he is currently applying for the Master of Science in Health Care Management at Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business before applying for his Ph.D. in the Fall of 2019.