Sarah Treves-Kagan, MPH
Each fall, new students bring their unique perspectives to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The UNC Graduate School’s Royster Society of Fellows works to attract exceptionally talented graduate students from around the world to add their points of view to the campus conversation.
Of the twenty-nine doctoral students who joined Carolina as Royster Fellows in 2015, seven attend the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. These students were selected for fellowships based on their academic performance, research, service, life experiences and potential for future leadership.
Sarah Treves-Kagan, in the Department of Health Behavior, is focusing her research on sexual violence prevention. Treves-Kagan is the recipient of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fellowship. She studied anthropology and political science as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, and earned a master’s degree in public health (maternal and child health) at the University of California-Berkeley.
Treves-Kagan also volunteered for several years as a rape crisis counselor supporting survivors of sexual violence and their families. “The work was difficult but extremely rewarding,” she said. “However, the stream of survivors seemed never-ending, which moved me to focus on prevention. This launched my career in public health and violence prevention. I am pursuing my doctoral degree at UNC to continue my research with some of the leaders in the field.”