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EP95 Medical Innovation Policy and the COVID Vaccine with Jocelyn Ulrich Apr 07, 2021

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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 research studies on a range of issues impacting innovative biopharmaceutical companies ranging from FDA policy and intellectual property concerns. Jocelyn is dedicated to advancing medical innovation policy and in this episode, she discusses the function of her role at PhRMA, interesting innovations in health she's excited about, as well as her thoughts on the COVID-19 vaccine in terms of vaccine confidence and how efforts are being made to be inclusive of all communities, especially marginalized groups, in vaccine rollout and healthcare as a whole.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP94 Launching a Digital Health Startup with Ashlee Wisdom, MPH '18 Mar 31, 2021

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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 generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP93 Public Policy Symposium on Public Health 2020 with Pavel Shirley & Sonia Wiecek Mar 25, 2021

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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 Violence. Our guests in this episode, NYU undergraduate students Sonia Wiecek and Pavel Shirley were both attendees of the event (Pavel was also a planning committee member). Sonia is a Junior Majoring in Public Policy with a minor in Public Health and Pavel is a Freshman studying Public Administration. The Public Policy Symposium's committee held various events leading up to the Symposium to prepare participants to write about and debate these policy proposals, and to encourage them to think critically about public health. In conversation, Sonia and Pavel provided an in-depth look at the debated topics of national healthcare and insurance as well as housing. They discussed the current state of debate on those topics, what reform and solutions might look like for those issues, and the intersection of the fields of public health and public policy.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP92 Nutrition in the Digital Age with Dr. Marie Bragg and Amaal Alruwaily Mar 17, 2021

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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 Pediatrics. Prior to devising the idea for this study, Amaal spent a year working in Dr. Bragg's SocioEconomic Evaluation of Dietary Decisions or (SEED) Program, working with content analysis among other things. The study illuminated connections between the manner in which foods are promoted through these videos how and food marketing is contributory to childhood obesity. The conversation was centered around the line of research in this study and its accessibility, fascinating findings from it and their greater implications, as well as how this issue might be compounded by COVID-19 among other things.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP91 The Dynamics of Private Public Partnerships with Samara Mbugua Mar 10, 2021

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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 disease surveillance software.] Samara is the proud child of Kenyan and Zimbabwean immigrants and this background heavily inspires the work she does, working to increase access to BD's products and resources in low- and middle-income countries. In this role, Samara especially focuses on strengthening public-private partnerships or PPPs, by supporting the planning, implementation, and monitoring of various programs on tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, infusion safety and laboratory quality among other topics. These cross-sector partnerships have resulted in global advocacy campaigns, capacity building for healthcare workers, laboratory systems strengthening, and other milestones. In this conversation, Samara explains more about what PPPs are and their impact and implementation as well as shares her global experiences as part of her role, and discusses the importance of having a seat at the table and diversity.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP90 Emergency Preparedness with Noor Jamal, Stephanie Parchment, and Cesar Figueroa Mar 03, 2021

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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 the chance to strategize solutions for disaster plans, healthcare guidelines, and more in collaborative teams. In this episode, Noor, Stephanie, and Cesar share their thoughts on the importance of emergency preparedness, how the United States has been managing the outbreak of COVID-19, and what this field looks like moving forward, armed with insight and wealth of knowledge gained from the course.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP89 Beauty, Femicide, and Social Innovation Through The South African Lens with Mulanga Muofhe Feb 24, 2021

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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 Health Innovation at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a specialized unit at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business. Much of Mulanga's past work and passions lie within Health and Social Innovation and she has interests in promoting community-based health solutions and wellness for all. In this episode, we discuss of skincare and skin health for all and subverting existing standards of beauty, the pressing issue of femicide in South Africa, as well as social innovation in health.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP88 Health Tech and the Evolving Public Health Domain with Vivienne La Feb 17, 2021

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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 products service clients with broad health initiatives from pharmaceuticals, telemedicine, and health-focused consumer goods, helping them more effectively reach target audiences and improve their marketing campaigns through real time exposure analytics and tracking patient behavior over time. Her past experience is varied, as she spent time working as a consultant helping clients build out their health benefit programs and working with consumer-health directed startups to implement their solutions across the country. In this episode we discuss her career trajectory- from working in health consulting to what she does now, working in the health-tech sector from Veeva Systems in an enlightening conversation on the intersection of health and technology as it pertains to the current public health domain. She also provides advice to students about navigating the vast public health domain post-grad and especially the health tech sector.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP87 COVID-19 Knowledge and the Journey to Ph.D. with Shahmir Ali Feb 03, 2021

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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 many of his formative years—and Pakistan. [As an NYU student, he has been involved with research on campus such as the South Asian Health and Research or (SAHARA) Initiative.] Earlier this year, Shahmir was part of an innovative team of researchers that conducted a widely-circulated study exploring social media as a recruitment platform for knowledge regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In this episode we discuss his experience gathering information on COVID-19 as the pandemic progresses as well as his journey to the Ph.D. and advice for prospective students.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

EP86 Emergency Management on the Frontlines in NYC with Johanna Miele Dec 23, 2020

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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 health officials in their planning and response activities. While pursuing her MPH at NYU, Johanna tailored the program to fit her interest in emergency management, which first piqued her interest during her undergraduate years. In this episode, we discuss her personal journey to working in public health, and Johanna shares insight into the domain of emergency management and her experience working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

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