Leeann Passaro
Leeann Passaro is the chief operating officer of The Hidden Opponent, an advocacy-based nonprofit organization that raises awareness for student-athlete mental health.
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Isabel Morgan
Isabel Morgan is the director of Birth Equity Research Scholars at the National Birth Equity Collaborative. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying infertility epidemiology and equitable access to fertility treatment.
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Keletso Makofane
Following the 2022 MPOX outbreak, Keletso Makofane, a social epidemiologist and postdoctoral fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, started the MPX NYC study to inform vaccine distribution in New York City.
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PHPod Goes to APHA, Part II
At the APHA Annual Meeting & Expo in November, PHPod discussed putting public health into action with Michael Curry, CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers; Nicole Huberfeld, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at Boston University School of Public Health; and Christina Dantam and Rhea Manocha, members of the Grassroots Maternal and Child Health Initiative at Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health.
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Sharon Lavigne
Sharon Lavigne, an environmental justice activist from St. James Parish in Louisiana, founded Rise St. James, an organization focused on combating petrochemical companies in Cancer Alley.
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Kimberlee Hartzler-Weakley and Kayla McKean
Kimberlee Hartzler-Weakley, Ph.D., M.S., and Kayla McKean, M.Ed, lead a team developing an online sex education program targeted towards youth with higher rates of risky sexual behavior.
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Aimee Ferraro
Aimee Ferraro, a professor at the College of Health Sciences and Public Policy at Walden University, discusses how to use social media for positive change.
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Nicole Martin
Nicole Martin is a cofounder and director of political education at Indigenous Women Rising, an organization committed to reclaiming identity, culture, tradition, and language from colonialism.
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PHPod Goes to APHA
At the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo in November, PHPod spoke with Emma Blackson and Diana Vasquez about their work putting public health into action.
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Seye Abimbola
Dr. Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher from Nigeria, editor-in chief of BMJ Global Health, and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. He teaches and studies health system governance and knowledge practices in global health.
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