Article on Kneka Smith

This is an article I found that sheds a little light on Kneka Smith. Kneka teaches at ASDOH and has played a valuable role in integrating public health education into the curriculum. If you click on the link and read the rest of the article you will also find a very important statement from the Dean of the school, Jack Dillenberg, on what a student needs to do to get an interview at the school. He says that evidence of involvement in public heath and service to the community is weighed even more than GPA and DAT scores at ASDOH. In fact, you won't get an interview there unless you have demonstrated something in this regard.

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by Kristen Romanowski

Kneka Smith, RDH, BS

When Kneka Smith, RDH, BS, was an undergraduate, she took an internship with the Maine Department of Human Services that changed the vision of her career. "I became interested in health policy, health care systems, access to care, and health literacy--issues that are still near to my heart," she says. "My passion for public health was ignited through this internship."

In her new role as adjunct instructor at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health (ASDOH), Smith is now helping to stir a passion for public health among would-be dentists. ASDOH, Arizona's first and the nation's newest dental school at the A.T. Still University of Health Sciences in Mesa, aims to graduate not only excellent clinicians, but also community leaders and managers of public, not-for-profit, and private sector oral health organizations. "To truly make a difference in the health of the nation," Smith says, "we need to have health care providers with skills beyond those related to clinical dental care"...

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