Category: Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
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Queering the classroom with Sophie Godley (MPH ’99)
HSPop alum Sophie Godley (DrPH, MPH) along with colleagues at Boston University, found that students benefit when LGBTQ+ faculty authentically present their identities and harness open conversations about gender and sexual identity in the classroom.
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Mayra Muratalla Muñoz receives Latinx Scholars Fellowship for advocacy work in Latinx communities
Online Master of Public Health (MPH) student Mayra Muratalla Muñoz has received the Latinx Scholars Graduate School Fellowship for her engagement with Latinx communities.
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Connecting academia and community en route to public health
“I am from community. I am part of community. I value community-oriented work and I am going to continue along this route. I strongly believe that the only way to do public health is to connect academia and community.”
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Championing health equity at home, school, and within communities
When PhD student Shanise Owens was little, her mother would say to her, “If you don’t do it at home first, then how can I trust that you will do it in public?” Owens believes championing health equity in our communities starts with prioritizing EDI work within the School.
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Improving health and the human condition – Dr. Helene D. Gayle
“Think big, think bold and believe in the possible. Let passion be your guide and let the unexpected become the expected.” – Helene D. Gayle
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Rabi Yunusa named 2024 MLK Service Awardee for her community-based public health work
Rabi Yunusa has made community-based work central to everything she does as a faculty at SPH. For her work, she received the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award. Given annually by the UW Health Sciences schools and UW Medicine, this award honors individuals or groups who exemplify Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principles through commitment…
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Derek Jennings on creating a space for Indigenous thoughts, ideas and people
For Derek Jennings, Quapaw and Sac and Fox, improving health equity among Indigenous people starts by building strong relationships with their communities.
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Helena Darrow on centering community and Native voices in public health
Culturally-tailored, community-based work really creates a sense of identity and culture that allows people to become more interested in learning more about an intervention and willing to participate if they can see themselves in it.
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SPH releases statement on impacts of anti-Blackness as Black History Month begins
UW School of Public Health Dean Hilary Godwin and Wendy E. Barrington, the director of the UW Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH), released a statement to the school’s community. HSPop is a department within SPH.
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National Public Health Week: Accessibility
For today’s National Public Health Week (#NPHW) theme, “Accessibility: Closing the Equity Gap”, we are sharing the profile of Audrey Lu, a student in the UW Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics and Health Information Management (HIHIM) program.