The Public Health Club at Sacramento State not only takes an interest in networking, but it also strives to give back and to raise awareness within the Sacramento community.

The Public Health Club was founded in 2001 by Melinda Seid and was formally known as the Health Society.

Jasmine Pettis, senior health science major and club president, said the club’s two main goals are to be a pipeline for students trying to gain admission into the public health graduate program at UC Davis and to serve as a networking club.

“We work closely with the health science department. We’re all about advocacy, education, supplementing our education through community events, and just getting a greater awareness about things that are going on that involve public health,” Pettis said.

Christine Hoyt, senior health science major and club vice president, said that joining the club is a good way for students to meet other students within the public health field.

“The Sac State Public Health club – it has been a great way to get other members in the health sciences major to socialize and get to know one another and have camaraderie within the major,” Hoyt said.

The club’s upcoming event called the “Be Smart With Body Art” campaign will be going on from 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Nov. 16 to 19 in the Library Quad.

Pettis said the purpose of this campaign is to raise student awareness of the cleanliness of the environment where students get tattooed and pierced in.

“(We are) just raising awareness of hepatitis C,” Pettis said.

Amber Wertman can be reached at [email protected]