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Why Public Health? Priya Agrawal

April 2013 — In our video series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Here, Priya Agrawal, MPH ’06 and executive director of Merck for Mothers, talks about her role in helping to establish the School’s Women and Health Initiative: hsph.harvard.edu/women-and-health-initiative/

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