An MPH student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Allie is a Portland-born, Antigua-rooted medical student, educator, writer, growing healer, and community organizer with a passion for reproductive justice, decolonial discourse, and the healing of historical and intergenerational trauma. She has a call toward bridging allopathic medicine and traditional wisdoms in service to the healing of and justice for all oppressed under the current systems of power. Allie’s…
Sabrina Ebengho is a Master of Public Health candidate in the Department of Health Policy and an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Before coming to Harvard, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Public Health – Global Health from the University of Washington. Sabrina’s professional expertise lies in community-based participatory research and public health practices that intentionally center equity in marginalized communities, especially for BIPOC individuals and immigrants,…
Zeenith is the founder of Jamii Life – a social enterprise that aims to redesign homecare to increase accessibility, transparency, quality care and peace of mind in South Africa. Jamii Life trains family caregivers to become accredited health workers. Zeenith’s grandmother, bedridden for 16 years, inspired Jamii Life. Before this, Zeenith led GE Healthcare’s Affordable Care and Indirect Channel Partners across Africa, focusing on enabling medical equipment access across Africa.…
Melanie Etti is a medical doctor from the UK who is currently enrolled in the Master of Public Health (Global Health) degree program. Following completion of her general medical training, she undertook a clinical research fellowship in Kampala, Uganda where she worked on a project aimed towards measuring levels of protective immunity against Group B Streptococcus in mother-baby pairs. During this time, she also worked as coordinator for the Maternal,…
Caleb Feuerbacher is an MPH-45 student in Health and Social Behavior at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a medical student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and plans on matching into psychiatry for his residency. He is from Wathena, Kansas. He is primarily interested in advancing mental health care for American Indian and Alaska Native populations. He has performed medical school rotations with the Iowa…
Cristina is a third-year doctoral student in the Population Health Sciences program. Through her doctoral work in the Nutrition Field of Study, she plans to study how, in resource-limited settings, behavior-change theory and family-based obesity prevention models can be effectively applied as well as how related programming may be evaluated. Cristina plans to evaluate — via semi-structured interviews — a culturally adapted, text-based nutrition education intervention for Latino adults in…
Christian is the co-investigator of the firearm exposure research team at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, where he conducts research on gun use, environmental toxicant exposures, mental illness, and violent injury. His work has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Herald, the Incidental Economist, WBUR and National Public Radio. Christian is also a part-time Health Policy MPH student. Recent research indicates that lead-based ammunition for firearms is a…
Ayah Hamdan received her Bachelor’s degree in Public Health from UC Berkeley and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Ayah is a proud daughter to Palestinian immigrants and was born and raised in the Bay Area, California. Ayah is excited about creating solutions that leverage the intersection of health & technology to promote more equitable health care access. She is also the…
Cathy is an MPH-45 candidate in Health and Social Behavior with a Maternal and Child Health concentration. She practiced obstetrics and gynecology for fifteen years in California and has delivered over 3000 babies. She is interested in developing strategies to decrease maternal mortality in the U.S. and globally. Cathy and Ariel’s project focuses on training a group of midwives in Uganda in common obstetrical emergencies. They are partnering with the…
Allison is a primary care physician, researcher and medical educator who is committed to improving health outcomes with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia. She is a fellow with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and has been working across the Torres Strait for the past three years. In 2020, Allison was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake her Masters of Public Health specialising in global…