Sarah Whitmarsh graduated from the Medical Journalism Master's Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2008. As a Roy H. Park fellow, Sarah worked with Assistant Professors Heidi Henninck-Kaminski and Elizabeth Dougall on qualitative and quantitative content analyses of shaken baby syndrome (SBS) as part of a social marketing campaign to reduce the incidence of SBS in North Carolina.  She also wrote for Endeavors magazine and The Chapel Hill Herald.

After graduation, Sarah moved to London to work at the FIP Collaborating Centre. The FIP CC is a specialized research centre associated with the School of Pharmacy, University of London and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) in The Hague, Netherlands. The FIP Collaborating Centre works to improve pharmacy education and development in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sarah writes communication materials, plans events and edits research studies and reports for the Centre.

A native of Savannah, Sarah attended the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, where she received her Bachelor's of Science in Microbiology in May 2006. She wrote her Master's thesis on prescription drug policy and addiction.

Links to a few of Sarah's published works:

www.fip.org/education

http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/spr2007/fort_bragg.php

http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/win2008/mouse_mess.php

http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall2007/khashan.php