Joel Burt-Miller is an MPH-45 student in the Health Policy program. He is also a medical student at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Joel is interested in the intersection of physical and mental health care. He seeks to utilize his training, experiences, and perspective to dismantle inequity and promote holistic wellness while alleviating barriers to accessing physical and mental health services for historically marginalized communities as…
Tina is a Masters in Pubic Health-45 student in the Health Management department and her research interests lie in human-centered design, effective technology utilization, and healthcare access in vulnerable populations. She is a family physician in Canada who is interested in innovative strategies to improve access to care. Tina’s project focuses on implementing digital communication strategies and evaluating outcomes for Project HUGS, a COVID-response program that provides social and behavioral…
Tanat is an MPH45 student in Global Health and Population program. His research interests include HIV prevention, substance use, and its intersection with mental health in the LGBTQ community. Tanat has worked on implementing HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among community-based clinics in Thailand through empowerment and education of lay providers. Tanat is passionate about harm reduction strategies and novel services centered around the healthcare needs of people who inject drugs.…
Han is a SM2 student in the Global Health and Population department and her research interests are in early childhood development and youth empowerment. Her experience in community based participatory action research allows her promote capacity building as she builds on community engagement. Han’s project focuses on amplifying the voices of females community youth leaders in rural Pakistan using creative global platforms.
Jocelyn Chu is the Director of Community Engaged Learning and an Instructor in the Office of Education. The focus of her work is in field based education and community engaged learning. She develops partnerships with host organizations and designs field based opportunities to engage students in team processes and leadership development. Jocelyn leads the Community Engaged Learning Fellowships program which centers on a practice of critical reflection and transformative learning.…
David Bunn is an MD/MPH student at Harvard Medical School currently enrolled in the MPH-45 Health Policy program. While in medical school, he noticed the systemic and structural barriers that prevented many patients from receiving adequate care. Consequently, he began conducting clinical research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital to examine issues around access to health care and prescription drug coverage, telemedicine, and cardiovascular disease outcomes. These…
Dr. Mary M. Wesley is a proud native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and currently is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. In this position, she serves as the Delta Scholars in Public Health Teaching Fellow. Dr. Wesley works with students, faculty, and organizations in the Mississippi Delta region and in the Harvard community to advance public health research, education,…
Jasmine’s project is a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) into the use of Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) checks for older adults applying to housing in Hampden County, MA. Jasmine Akuffo is a current MPH-candidate in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research interests lay at the intersection of mass incarceration and housing instability. She is particularly interested in examining these topics through a critical race lense, using qualitative…
Hye Young’s project aims to understand how to best support community-based health workers (CBHWs) with lived experiences of homelessness, substance use, and incarceration by interviewing CBHWs about their sense of purpose at work, hopes for personal and professional growth, and opportunities to redress misunderstandings and difficult work environments enabled by healthcare institutions and structural injustices. Hye Young is an MPH-65 student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department. She is…
Kaela will be mapping the food environment in areas densely populated by Venezuelan refugees in Trinidad and Tobago to inform local policy on interventions that promote prevention and management strategies for chronic disease in this population. Kaela is a first year Master of Science Student in the Global Health and Population Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan school. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in…