Public Health Education
Captain Benhammou earned a Master of Public Health from UNCG in 2011. He is a highly decorated officer of the United States Air Force who brings great pride to the Department of Public Health Education and to UNCG.
While at UNCG, Captain Benhammou authored, along with faculty, three community based publications. He was often called upon to meet with students being recruited into the program – friendly does not even begin to describe his engaging and outgoing personality. Captain Benhammou is currently Chief of Public Health Operations at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois where he is in charge of providing preventive medicine services to 42,000 members.
As part of his job he must brief those under his command on the vital public health aspects of disease. With the Ebola crisis occurring during his watch, his job involved easing the concerns of commanders sending their troops on missions where there was risk of infection. He worked to ease their concerns and to eliminate the myths about contamination.