Methyl Grace Barro was pursuing a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a concentration in Global Health. She has participated in many emergency management positions prior to attending NYU, including Emergency Preparedness Coordinator of the Hospital Preparedness program at New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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Eric Rochman is a part-time Master of Public Health student pursuing a degree with a concentration in epidemiology. He has had 4 years of experience working in Paraguay, initially as a Rural Health and Sanitation Volunteer and then as an HIV/AIDS and Programming and Training Coordinator with the Peace Corps.
Continue reading “Eric Rochman”Dr. Tanya Green
Dr. Tanya Green has extensive working and policymaking experience from Jamaica where she was a physician. She believes in the success of population health and primary prevention measures would help solve many health issues.
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Tiffany Hamil returned to NYU to complete a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree at the NYU College of Nursing. After graduating with a Bachelor of Nursing from NYU, she worked throughout the Pediatrics Department for eight years. She obtained her Pediatric Nurse Practitioner degree from Columbia University while working as a full-time Registered Nurse.
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Cindy Martinez paved her way into the public health field after her graphics design job took an unexpected turn after the impacts of the economic recession in 2009. After dedicating 18 years to the marketing field she discovered her desire to help people.
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Isabella Rivers is a student in the Master of Public Health program (Global Health concentration) at the NYU School of Global Public Health. Initially working as a health and foreign NGO consultant in Beijing, China, Isabella later became increasingly aware of the public health disparities in the communities around her.
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Rebecca Sherrod has an MPH in infectious disease and an MA in political science prior to working at NYU. She works as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the VA Boston Healthcare System. She wants to get into a field where it is more dynamic and multidisciplinary that the entire team is dedicated to solving public health problems.
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David Garcia is a family nurse practitioner in the Nursing PhD program at NYU and his dissertation proposal focuses on secondary data analysis on young men who have sex with men, framed by the syndemics theory, to examine substance use, violence, and HIV/AIDS risk. After a study abroad class at NYU London on HIV/AIDS, David became inspired by his potential contributions to this field of research.
Continue reading “David Ray Garcia”Dr. Cesar Figueroa Ortiz
Dr. Cesar Ortiz is a practicing infectious disease physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is an NYU School of Global Health student pursuing a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in epidemiology. As a practicing physician, he would like to implement preventative measures that can have a bigger impact on the biomedical field he practices in, and on society at large.
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Dr. Felix Ansah is a multi-lingual Ghanaian medical doctor that graduated from Ukraine. After he enrolled in the United States Navy basic training he realized people’s health and illness extends beyond the confines of the hospital perimeter, and oftentimes some individuals never get the medical attention that they need from healthcare facilities.
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