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I AM GPH

NYU School of Global Public Health

The I AM GPH podcast brings you community conversations from the New York University School of Global Public Health. From student internships to cutting edge faculty research, from alumni insights to the insider scoop on campus life… it"s all right here on the I AM GPH podcast.

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EP92 Nutrition in the Digital Age with Dr. Marie...

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2021/03/17

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

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27:00

EP91 The Dynamics of Private Public Partnerships with...

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2021/03/10

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

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35:29

EP90 Emergency Preparedness with Noor Jamal,...

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2021/03/03

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

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21:38

EP89 Beauty, Femicide, and Social Innovation Through...

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2021/02/24

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

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26:33

EP88 Health Tech and the Evolving Public Health...

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2021/02/17

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

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46:36

EP87 COVID-19 Knowledge and the Journey to Ph.D. with...

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2021/02/03

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

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24:41

EP86 Emergency Management on the Frontlines in NYC...

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2020/12/23

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

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45:16

EP85 Honoring Indigenous Voices with Sutton King, MPH...

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2020/12/15

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 goal is to

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36:24

EP84 Organizational Cognition with Dr. Alden Lai

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2020/04/24

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

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33:39

EP83 Global Issues in Public Health Nutrition Niyati...

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2020/03/18

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 are

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30:13

EP82 What you should know about PhDs with Dr. Ben Spoer

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2020/03/11

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

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33:18

EP81 Diversity in Public Health Academia with Dean...

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2020/02/27

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 and

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29:51

EP80 Fighting for Immigrants’ Rights with Ben Wagner

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2020/02/20

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 his

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40:39

EP79 Songs About Ebola and the Power of Radio in...

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2020/02/13

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

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29:31

EP78 Coronavirus and Misinformation with Dr. Robyn...

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2020/01/29

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 the

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33:32

EP77 Aging, Disasters and Resilience with Dr. Alexis...

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2020/01/22

Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences at New York University’s College of Global Public Health. She is a public health sociologist who explores how population health is affected by exposure to natural hazards, including hurricanes, floods, extreme heat and wildfires. Dr. Merdjanoff is particularly interested in how social inequalities shape the impact of hazards on health, recovery, and resilience for vulnerable populations. To do so, she collects

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33:13

EP76 Championing Harm Reduction with Danielle Ompad

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2020/01/15

Dr. Danielle Ompad is an epidemiologist whose work is focused in the areas of urban health, HIV, illicit drug use, and adult access to vaccines. With respect to illicit drug use, her work has spanned the entire natural history of addiction – from initiation to cessation, with particular attention paid to risk for infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis B and C, and STIs. She has primarily worked with people who use heroin, crack, cocaine, and/or club drugs. Join us as we discuss the concept of

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17:29

Healthright Frontline Health Workers: Salim Furaha,...

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2020/01/08

HealthRight and I AM GPH have partnered to bring you this 4-part podcast series profiling four different Frontline health workers (FHWs) and their work in four different countries. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has identified men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) and sex workers as priority populations for HIV prevention, care and treatment services given their heightened risk. Pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP as it's more commonly known, is a medicine that prevents HIV

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36:33

EP74 Myths of the Oral Microbiome with Quip's Chief...

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2019/12/18

In this episode we speak with Dr. Mark Burhenne, who is the Chief Dental Advisor of Quip, a Brooklyn-based company that designs oral care products. He is also the founder of askthedentist.com, and a practicing dentist in the Bay Area in California. Dr. Burhenne shares with us the most common myths and misunderstandings surrounding everyday dental hygiene, and explains how the oral microbiome is deeply connected with the health of the rest of the body. To learn more about the NYU College of Global

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Healthright Frontline Health Workers: Safina Yusuf,...

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2019/12/05

HealthRight and I AM GPH have partnered to bring you this 4-part podcast series profiling four different Frontline health workers (FHWs) and their work in four different countries. Northern Uganda is home to one of the largest refugee settlements in the world. The majority of refugees residing there are South Sudanese women and children who have fled conflict and violence. While there are limited data on the mental health needs in this population, HealthRight has observed high rates of depression,

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