29. How Being Involved with Your Local Community is Crucial to Making Public Health Impact
Release Date: 07/27/2020
52. Public Health Culture Podcast Finale
Public Health Culture
This is it! The last episode of the Public Health Culture Podcast! In this episode, you will hear about my journey as a Podcaster and what led me to this decision. I also share other Public Health Podcasts that I enjoy. I started a nonprofit called, the Association of Black Researchers (ABR). The mission of the Association of Black Researchers is to cultivate, highlight, advance, and advocate for a multidisciplinary community of Black researchers through the following objectives: Increase knowledge in all areas of research. Amplify the voice of the Black Researcher. Improve research...
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51. Black Health, Black Wealth
Public Health Culture
Dr. Zenobia Bryant has a PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology from Walden University. She also has a BS degree in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University. Dr. Bryant is passionate about mental health, adolescent health, the health of young black women, financial health, and the barriers and structural racism that hinder fulfillment in these areas. She is the founder and CEO of Black Health Black Wealth, LLC that envisions optimal wellness and true health equity for young black and brown women. Her organization disseminates mental health, public...
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50. Building Community Trust in Research: Strategies, challenges, and lessons learned from the field
Public Health Culture
Leonore Okwara, MPH is CEO and Founder of Public Health Research Consulting, and host of the Public Health Culture Podcast. She helps researchers meet the unique needs of the community and the funders in two ways: 1) hosting community engagement in research webinars and trainings to equip researchers with strategies on building community trust in research, and 2) providing program management trainings to help researchers manage their grant-funded research studies with ease. Joyee Washington, MS, MPH, CHES is CEO and Founder of Joyee Washington Consulting, LLC. She is a public health and...
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49. The S.O.U.L: Empowering and Developing Communities
Public Health Culture
Tomorrow Bowen is a senior in undergrad in socio-behavioral health with a minor in Sociology. She just applied to grad school for an MPH. She’s a researcher at heart and runs a nonprofit The S.O.U.L and hosts the podcast, Not A Health Guru. She’s most passionate about housing and homelessness but also has a focus on food policy and environmental justice. In This Episode We Cover: Her public health journey so far and how she started out as a nursing major/working as CNA (certified nursing assistant) and she realized this wasn't what she wanted to do and made the shift to public health. Her...
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48. Sisters in Public Health: Connecting and Empowering Women
Public Health Culture
Angela N. Frazier, MPH is the Founder of Sisters in Public Health® , speaker, mental health advocate, and author of A Kids Book About™ Suicide.” A Portland native, Angela earned her Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences and Communication from Portland State University. She earned her MPH in Community Health from UT Health School of Public Health, and currently lives in Houston TX. She started a nonprofit called Sisters in Public Health to connect and empower all women in Public Health and to support the next generation of public health professionals. After losing her...
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47. Fit for Life: How to Stay Active, Find Support, and Prevent Disease
Public Health Culture
Kristie Hicks, MPH, CHES, CPT is a public health professional with experience in chronic disease management, health and nutrition education, and fitness. She’s the founder of , a health and wellness organization for women of color and which offers online fitness training and wellness coaching services. She is the author of a peer-reviewed North Carolina Medical Journal article featuring her childhood obesity research. She is a National Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach, Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), and an ACE Certified Personal Trainer. She is passionate about...
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46. Elevating the Multidimensional Skill Set of Community Health Workers
Public Health Culture
Quisha Umemba, MPH, BSN, RN, CDCES, CHWI is a Registered Nurse with a background in Public health. She is Founder and CEO of Umemba Health LLC, a public health consulting and education agency that provides workforce development and community health worker training. She is also the Executive Director and CEO of a nonprofit called Diversity in Diabetes. A Superwoman, she is a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, Certified Community Health Worker, a Certified Lifestyle Coach, a wife and a mother. She lives in Austin, TX. In This Episode We Cover: Her passion for...
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45. Increasing the Number of Melanated Health Professionals and Allies
Public Health Culture
Kayla Holston, MPH is a second-year medical school student at Thomas Jefferson University who also works in collaboration with a Labor and Delivery Hospital in Malawi to improve the safety and patient experience of mothers and their families. She also founded and runs a business called Melanin Med, a merch store for melanated health professionals & allies. With a Bachelor degree in biomedical engineering and in cognitive science, she melds these fields with medicine and public health to work towards health equity. In This Episode We Cover: - Her experience working in collaboration...
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44. Addressing Health Equity by Expanding Healthy Food Access
Public Health Culture
Nkechi Michel, MPH, CHES is a Public Health Advocate and Educator for the Obesity Prevention Program, SNAP-Ed in Sacramento, CA. Working in community health, she loves helping people and being on the ground. Her biggest passions include nutrition and environmental racism. She is the Founder of @thatpublichealthchick, her Instagram platform where she loves to share public health messages and engage with people virtually. Queenivism is her website where she has a public health merchandise line of clothing and accessories that she designed to get people sharing, thinking about and promoting...
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43. Creating Conversations Around Mental Health, Health Equity, & Self-Care in Communities of Color
Public Health Culture
Theresa Alphonse, MPH is a Public Health Professional, Educator, and Writer. She has a public health focus on community health, health equity, working with the population who receives Medicaid, and immigrants. She is the Founder and Executive Director of What’s on Your Mind, A Nonprofit 501c3, whose mission is to normalize conversations around thoughts, emotions and feelings in communities of color. She started What’s On Your Mind five years ago because she wanted to get down to the real issues of the community. So she went out and started having conversations with people, and as it...
info_outlineNicole D. Vick, is an Author, Speaker, Public Health Advocate, Professor, and Image Consultant based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a Health Educator Coordinator at the Los Angeles County Department of Health and an adjunct professor at Occidental College where she teaches about health equity and social determinants of health. She is on the board of three community-based organizations: Esperanza Community Housing, Public Health Advocates and Physicians for Social Responsibility (LA chapter). She “fell in love with public health 20 years ago” and has never looked back. She believes in using her professional, educational and lived experience to teach, engage, and inspire.
In This Episode We Cover:
- What is at the heart of public health and her work.
- How she works with her undergraduate students to look inside themselves and start to formulate ideas on how each of them can make a difference in this field.
- Why commitment to your local community on a small scale is crucial in order to make bigger public health impacts.
- How to pursue being on your local community-based organization boards.
- What lived experiences have shaped her life and career path.
- How educational attainment is one of the top ten social determinants of health and how it affects all aspects of a person’s life.
- The need for eliminating current unfair systemic structures and the need to start over creating new systemic foundations.
- Top tips for managing public health projects and creating change.
Action Steps:
- Purchase her Book: Pushing Through: Finding the Light in Every Lesson where she talks about her life journey, her “ah-ha” moments, her struggles as a teen mom, and how public health concepts play out in a person’s life.
- Watch her TED talk on YouTube “Seeing Faces and Not Just Numbers.” In this talk, she amplifies the importance of understanding the lived experiences behind statistics, particularly in the field of public health education.
- Watch the documentary “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick” - a seven-part documentary series exploring racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health.
Stand-Out Quotes:
- “Ultimately public health is about community and trying to make communities better and healthier.”
- “People’s civil rights are not being met. Black people have to fight to have their humanity validated.”
- “We see health disparities. We see inequalities in quality of education. We see housing is unaffordable. We see high homelessness rates.”
- “Racism is the reason why we see so many different health outcomes.”
- “Poverty predicts poor health in such a profound way that if we could eliminate poverty, we could raise the status of our population in regards to health.”
- “It is an unfair situation as to how our community and society is structured. It keeps certain people in poverty. We need to do a better job of working towards eliminating those structures.”
Reach Out:
- Follow her on Instagram: @nicoledvick
- Find her on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-d-vick/
- Visit her website: www.nicoledvick.com (coming soon)