Heather A. Olden is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) candidate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has a B.S. in molecular biology from Hampton University, and a MPH in international health epidemiology from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor. As an Epidemiologist, Heather specializes in patient and community engagement, strategic planning, program and research study development and management, and qualitative data collection and analysis. She works on…
Hoai An will work with IC’s Beyond Do No Harm (BDNH) Network on a storytelling and media project. This is a network of US-based health care providers, public health workers, impacted community members, advocates, and organizers working across racial, gender, reproductive, migrant and disability justice, drug policy, sex worker, and anti-HIV criminalization movements to address and interrupt the harm caused when health care providers, public health workers and researchers, and…
Sara is a dual MD/MPH candidate studying Social and Behavioral Sciences with a specialization in Maternal Child Health. Her research interests are maternal mortality and morbidity among Native women in the US. Sara specifically focuses on assessing the interplay between the legacy of colonization and the perpetuation of health disparities. As an aspiring physician, Sara plans a clinical and research career in OBGYN, hoping to be a stalwart advocate for…
Clara is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow trained in Epidemiology, working for the HaSET Maternal and Child Health Research Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She currently focuses on study design, data management and analysis of longitudinal data, and capacity building in the field of maternal and child health. She specifically works with data from an open pregnancy and child cohort and a health and demographic surveillance…
Sherine Andreine Powerful, MPH (ID: Sherine, Mx., she, they), is a Doctor of Public Health candidate at Harvard Chan. As a Black Caribbean Feminist, she is committed to celebrating and furthering pleasure, healing, and liberation for Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples and persons of diverse a/genders and a/sexualities. In this current critical juncture, her lived experiences are moving her towards the creation/curation of a life in which pleasure is greater…
Taylor J. Robinson is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is also a T32 trainee at the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine. She earned her MPH concentrating in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She incorporates spatial, epidemiological, and environmental methods to study the…
Artair Rogers is a Population Health Sciences Program doctoral student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department. He is a member of the FXB Health and Human Rights Doctoral Cohort, an affiliated researcher with the Petrie-Flom Law Center, and editor for the Race, Research, Policy Portal for the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. Artair’s research interests are frameworks for anti-racism accountability for health care organizations, health equity data frameworks, and…
Umu-Hawa is a born and raised native of Sierra Leone, who is pursuing an MD/MPH at the University of California San Diego and Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is currently an MPH-45 Global Health student at HSPH. Umu-Hawa is passionate about improving health outcomes for Sierra Leoneans, Black and underserved populations within her sphere of influence. Her goal is to work within the global context utilizing her medical…
Nalini Rohatgi is an MPH-45 student in Health and Social Behavior at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She graduated from medical school at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India, and received pediatric residency training at the University of Connecticut and an allergy fellowship at National Jewish Health, Denver, Co. She is a board-certified allergist who owned and ran two productive offices in Tampa for 35 years…
Stacey is passionate about incorporating her love for science and healthcare through global health. She is a Master of Science student in the Department of Global Health & Population. Her research interests include sexual and reproductive health, with an emphasis on HIV prevention and health equity in Latin America. Stacey’s project, in collaboration with UNAIDS and the El Salvador Ministry of Health HIV Unit, focuses on identifying systemic and social…