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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, 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, 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 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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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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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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Reyma McCoy Hyten has a two-decade career in the service and support of people with disabilities. She became the first Black woman to serve as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner for the Administration on Disabilities. Currently, she works privately, devoting her full attention and time to identifying and confronting the root causes of oppression, and how systems create marginalization.

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Dallas Ducar is president and CEO of a New England non-profit health care organization that provides gender-affirming care.

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Melissa Chinchilla works at the intersection of homelessness and health. She is researcher with the Veterans Affairs Los Angeles Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy.

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Ian Rowe, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, talks about drivers of success and challenges in education.

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