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Staff Awards: Love grew from student worker to study coordinator
Monica Love, project coordinator in epidemiology at Pitt Public Health, started her undergraduate degree at Pitt in 1997 and never left, thanks to a student job at the school in the spring of 1998. “I've been in epidemiology ever since,” says Love, “and I never looked back,” though she had once planned to study law. “I'm glad my life worked out this way.”
Pitt Public Health's Dara Méndez helps shape historic county parental leave policy
When Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato signed paid parental leave legislation into law on Oct. 22, it marked a milestone for families and public health. For Dara D. Méndez, PhD, MPH, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, it was also the culmination of months of work bringing research, community voices and public health expertise into policymaking.
2026 40 Under 40 Honoree: Alexander Sundermann
Alexander Sundermann, DrPH, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, has been named to Pittsburgh Magazine’s 2026 40 Under 40 list. Sundermann leads UPMC’s pathogen genomic surveillance program, using genetic sequencing to identify hospital outbreaks and helping advance efforts to prevent infections.