In this episode, we chat with Samantha Harris. Samantha began her career at the University of WIsconsin-Madison where she acquired a Bachelor of Science in Health Communication while being a student athlete on the rowing team. In fact Samantha has even been a rowing coach. Currently she’s working on diet analysis, alongside being a researcher at Polygeia working on smart cities projects out of Cambridge UK & also a current student at NYU school GPH studying public health nutrition. On this p...
Dec 15, 2021•25 min
In this episode, we chat with Karen Issokson-Silver, VP, Director of Research & Education at the Women’s Sport Foundation. Karen has had an extensive career within public health alongside a wide variety of experiences starting her career in marketing & advertising at Sandcastles consulting LLC. Through her journey Karen has been a part of various consulting projects such as the American Cancer Society and New York State Department of Education to name a few. Karen also moved into teachin...
Dec 02, 2021•26 min
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Ted Long, Senior Vice President of Ambulatory Care and Population Health at New York City Health + Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the U.S. He has served at the city, state and federal levels in the US as the Medical Director at the Rhode Island State Department of Health in addition to creating the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for programs such as MACRA. Dr. Long is currently a faculty member in the Yale School of Medicine...
Nov 17, 2021•29 min
In this special episode the NYU School of Global Public Health and its Center for Bioethics partnered with The Greenwall Foundation to sponsor the 2021 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture. We were proud to welcome Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Christine Grady, Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, to discuss the public health and ethical challenges of COVID-19. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 5 min
In this episode, we chat with James Betz, an NYU GPH alum (MPH ‘12) who is a product manager at the FDA alongside being a lieutenant commander for the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Prior to his current roles James served as a public health officer at the U.S. Air Force, worked in the field of bioterrorism and started off his career in microbiology. With such a multifaceted background James shares his experience at NYU and what he did to design his Public Health path to se...
Oct 27, 2021•32 min
Polygeia is a student-run Global Health Think Tank founded in the UK, which empowers student minds worldwide to engage in research on current global health issues and policies. In this episode, I’m joined by Genesis Ovalle, Gavin Arneson, and Maya Navarro who are members of the New York branch of Polygeia, which operates on our campus under the supervision of Dr. Chris Dickey. Genesis (CAS 21’) serves as Marketing Officer for the organization, Gavin (Meyers and GPH ‘21) serves as a Branch Editor...
Oct 21, 2021•35 min
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Niyati Parekh, an Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition here at NYU GPH and the Executive Director of Doctoral Studies, along with Dr. Filippa Juul a current Assistant Professor Faculty/Fellow who obtained her Ph.D. in Public Health from GPH with a concentration in Epidemiology in 2020. Both Niyati and Filippa worked on a widely-circulated study on the harmful effects of Ultra-Processed Foods and their association with health risks, especially cardi...
Oct 14, 2021•24 min
Supriya Lal is a recent graduate of GPH with Master of Public Health concentrating in Public Health Nutrition, who also received her undergraduate degree in the Global Public Health program at NYU. On campus, Supriya worked as a Graduate Research Assistant and as a Project Coordinator for the SAHARA Initiative. The SAHARA or South Asian Health and Research Initiative was created at GPH in 2019 by professor Dr. Niyati Parekh to foster collaboration and research on the health needs of migrant Sout...
Sep 22, 2021•22 min
Anjana Sreedhar is an alumna of NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, receiving her Master’s in Public Administration in 2020 after also pursuing her undergraduate degree at NYU. She currently works as an Administrative Fellow at NYU Langone Health. In December of 2020, Anjana published her first book "Healthcare of A Thousand Slights: Connecting Legacy To Access To Healthcare,” which through extensive research and interviews investigates the history of health disparities in the United States e...
May 13, 2021•37 min
Mary Holiman (President) and Ciara Freeman (Vice President) are two MPH students who serve as leaders of the Black Women’s Health Collective (BWHC). The mission of BWHC is to support and encourage the leadership of Black women in public health while highlighting the health experiences of black women and girls globally. The club is able to do this with programming throughout the year by connecting Black women students and professionals in Public Health, sharing opportunities, and fostering a mean...
May 06, 2021•31 min
Besa Bauta serves as Chief Data Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for MercyFirst, an organization that provides health and mental health services for clients in New York City. Besa, who is a GPH Alum (‘08) and NYU Ph.D. Alum (‘18), currently works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work along with being a licensed clinical therapist. Her current work seeks to support health systems by building technological infrastructure. Besa’s current projects include work wit...
Apr 28, 2021•35 min
Learn about the Houston water crisis you probably didn’t know even existed, how climate change may begin to affect our water sources around the U.S., the incredible story of survival from Jackie Young-Medcalf’s exposure to toxic heavy metals and the actions we can all take to feel empowered in our water rights. Jackie is a champion for public health and a catalyst for change through collaboration. Without knowing it Texas Health and Environment Alliance (THEA) was formed the day Jackie discovere...
Apr 22, 2021•32 min
Jocelyn Ulrich is a GPH alumna who graduated with a concentration in global health policy and management in 2009. Jocelyn has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and currently works as a Deputy Vice President in Medical Innovation Policy in the Policy and Research department at PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America. In this role, she works at the intersection of public health and public policy to develop legislative and policy analysis and rese...
Apr 07, 2021•20 min
Join us for a conversation with NYU GPH Alumna Ashlee Wisdom about health technology, entrepreneurship, and challenging the status quo in healthcare and society. Ashlee will discuss how she is crafting her public health career and share her experience launching her digital health startup, Health In Her HUE. Learn more and download the Health in Her HUE app at www.healthinherhue.com To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next g...
Mar 31, 2021•46 min
On November 14 and 15, 2020, the Public Policy Symposium on Public Health was presented through a collaboration between NYU GPH and the NYU Politics Society. During the two-day virtual symposium, students from across New York City gathered to present and debate policy proposals on various topics regarding public health. Participants were tasked with preparing creative policy memos addressing topics such as Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Mental Health, Prescription Drugs and Opioids, and Gun...
Mar 25, 2021•31 min
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Marie Bragg, Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition at GPH, and Amaal Alruwaily, a GPH alumna who graduated in 2019 with a concentration in Epidemiology. Marie and Amaal were both a part of conducting a widely-circulated study on the harmful effects of “Kid Influencers” on Youtube promoting junk foods. The study had media coverage across major outlets such as CNN and The New York Times and was published in the Official Journal of the American Academy of...
Mar 17, 2021•29 min
Samara Mbugua is a GPH alumna, graduating with a concentration in Community & International Health in 2014, who now serves as the President of the school’s inaugural alumni board. Samara currently works as a Global Health Analyst at Becton, Dickinson & Company (BD), a global medical technology company. [Samara holds a Bachelor’s degree in Health Science from Boston University. Prior to joining BD’s Global Health team, Samara worked as a consultant to hospital clinicians utilizing BD’s di...
Mar 10, 2021•27 min
In the summer of 2020, Dr. Robyn Gershon, Clinical Professor of Epidemiology taught the highly popular GPH course, Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare Organizations. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, three Master of Public Health students, Noor Jamal, Stephanie Parchment, and Cesar Figueroa enrolled in this timely and relevant course. Dr. Gershon’s high energy, dynamic course equips students with disaster management skills for the current healthcare domain, even providing students...
Mar 03, 2021•35 min
Mulanga Muofhe is a GPH alumna (MPH ‘09) who graduated with a concentration in international community health and is now a member of NYU GPH’s inaugural Alumni Board. Mulanga, a South African native is now based in Cape Town and is the founder of Mulanga Muofhe Natural Beauty, a natural and organic skincare brand that aims to target specific black skin concerns. On the side, she is also an independent transcriptionist with 3PlayMedia. Mulanga previously worked as a Project Manager on Inclusive H...
Feb 24, 2021•22 min
Vivienne La is a GPH alumna, graduating with a concentration in Policy & Management in 2018, who serves as the Vice President of the school’s inaugural alumni board. She is currently a Project Manager within the Crossix Analytics Product Strategy team at Veeva Systems in New York City. In her current position, she is responsible for overseeing Crossix’s analytics platform product production and operations as well as spearheading process optimization and scalability initiatives. These product...
Feb 17, 2021•27 min
Shahmir Ali, is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at NYU’s School of Global Public Health, with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Prior to joining NYU, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in public health studies and political science. Shahmir, a Pakistani-American, cites his global background as a major inspiration and contributor to his passion for public health. His past research and publications have spanned work in the US, China, Australia—where he spent...
Feb 03, 2021•47 min
In this episode, we are joined by Johanna Miele, an NYU GPH alumna (MPH ‘14) and inaugural GPH Alumni Board member. Johanna is a Manager of the Emergency Management and Enterprise Resilience team at NYU Langone Health, working closely with infectious disease response, mass fatality operations and multi-casualty incident readiness across the NYU Langone Health enterprise. Prior to her role at NYU Langone Health, she worked at NYC Emergency Management coordinating with city, state, and federal hea...
Dec 23, 2020•25 min
In this episode, we speak with Sutton King, an NYU GPH alumna and recently named a 2020 Mark & Debra Leslie Female Founders Fellow. Now more than ever, our world is looking to the future of public health. We are all critically examining the current structures and systems in place, while asking ourselves “What can we do to make a difference as public health professionals”? Sutton King, MPH ‘20 is disrupting the industry, by prioritizing and amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples. Her goa...
Dec 15, 2020•45 min
In this episode we are joined by Dr. Alden Lai, a management scholar who researches organizational cognition in health care and public health. He investigates the ways health care professionals and managers handle complex, ambiguous, or novel information at work, and how these processes contribute to the safety and quality performance of healthcare organizations. He also examines how people generate meaning and meaningfulness of work to understand issues on burnout, resilience, and workplace wel...
Apr 24, 2020•36 min
In this episode we speak with Niyati Parekh, Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition at NYU GPH, and Earlene Cruz, the founder and Director of Kitchen Connection.org. We discuss a wide range of topics including how climate change and Non-Communicable diseases relate to food insecurity and malnutrition, and we hear about their recent course with the United Nations and the World Food Programme (WPF). To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs...
Mar 18, 2020•34 min
In this episode we talk to NYU GPH alum Dr. Ben Spoer. Before starting his PhD at GPH Ben received a Bachelors in Philosophy from UC Berkeley. Despite that he found a job as a holistic health counselor at Lincoln High School on Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY. The students at Lincoln inspired Ben to pursue public health. Many of them lived in places that made it difficult, if not impossible, to be healthy, and they didn’t know what to do about it. Hoping to solve this problem Ben went on to earn a ...
Mar 11, 2020•30 min
In celebration of Black History Month, this special episode features Dean Cheryl Healton discussing the importance of diversity in public health academia with Dr. Melody Goodman, Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Biostatistics. In 1999, Dean Healton published a study called “The Shape of our River,” and years later Dr. Goodman collaborated with her on a new report called “Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Academic Public Health: 20-Year Update”. Join us as they discuss their work a...
Feb 27, 2020•33 min
Ben Wagner is in his last year of the NYU Gallatin and Global Public Health accelerated dual-degree program, concentrating in Public Health Policy. Ben’s studies focus on understanding the nexus of medical practice, ethics, social determinants of health, and cultural impediments to improved health outcomes, particularly among refugees and migrants. As a Gallatin Global Human Rights Fellow in 2018, Ben conducted research on access to healthcare in U.S. immigration detention facilities. Alongside ...
Feb 20, 2020•30 min
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Carlos Chirinos, a clinical music and global health associate professor at NYU. His research is at the intersection of public health, communication, and music, looking at how media narratives driven by music artists and music-based interventions contribute to engaging communities in disease prevention and control in the context of existing or potential health emergencies. He has been a key consultant for radio and music projects in Africa with funding from the ...
Feb 13, 2020•41 min
In this episode Dr. Robyn Gershon uses her perspective as a Clinical Professor of Epidemiology to moderate a discussion about Coronavirus with NYU GPH graduate Dr. Rachael Piltch-Loeb and second year Master of Public Health student Suiyue Cui. They discuss the most current figures for the outbreak, the different ways in which media are portraying it and the danger of misinformation. We also hear Suiyue’s unique perspective who has stayed at the forefront of the epidemiological developments of th...
Jan 29, 2020•30 min
