Hi, I'm Nikki Hillier. I have been at EIU since 2015. I teach graduate courses in leadership, ethics, and health policy, and I coordinate internship and graduate programming across four degree tracks in EIU's Department of Public Health and Nutrition. My favorite part of this work is connecting students to the profession through internship placements, conference participation, and hands-on research. I teach a health professions course as well as reasearch methods and health administation.

My research focuses on public health experiential learning and how students build practitioner skills in applied settings. Recent projects have taken me into WIC food policy and vaccine hesitancy at the community level, mentoring students through this work.