37. Access to Care: Using a Mobile Health Clinic Model of Healthcare Delivery
Release Date: 11/17/2020
52. Public Health Culture Podcast Finale
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50. Building Community Trust in Research: Strategies, challenges, and lessons learned from the field
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49. The S.O.U.L: Empowering and Developing Communities
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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
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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
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46. Elevating the Multidimensional Skill Set of Community Health Workers
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45. Increasing the Number of Melanated Health Professionals and Allies
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44. Addressing Health Equity by Expanding Healthy Food Access
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43. Creating Conversations Around Mental Health, Health Equity, & Self-Care in Communities of Color
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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_outlineSharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, PhD, is a passionate trailblazer in public health policy and research. Having completed her PhD at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, her most current work, for her dissertation, examines the health equity and economic effects that mobile health clinics have on hard to reach populations. She is from Ghana and holds onto her Ghanian values, but she lives in the US and there are things in the US that have become a part of who she is. Personally, she is a fiery millennial woman, a Jesus follower, a wife and a mother of three. Professionally, she’s a scientist with a background in engineering and biological sciences who has now found her work in public health. Additionally, she is an author of a children’s book.
In This Episode We Cover:
- The roundabout way she got into public health.
- Why curiosity and soul searching led her to her professional passion.
- Her passion: equitable access to health.
- What mobile health clinics are and how they operate.
- How mobile health clinics bridge health gaps for so many people.
- How mobile health clinics are providing much needed care during COVID-19 and during/after natural disasters.
- Why access to healthcare is a human right and how mobile health clinics are helping to bridge disparities.
- Her PhD journey and how important the process was for her professional development.
- How she is showing the value of the impact of mobile health clinics of decreased adverse health outcomes and cost savings.
- Her advice to people looking to get into the public health sphere.
Stand-Out Quotes:
- Equitable access to health: I get goosebumps just saying this
- How can I tell their stories so that individuals such as decision makers and funders will have the information they need?
- If there is something wrong with us (health-wise), that affects our whole day.
Reach Out:
- LinkedIn: @sharonattipoe-dorcoo
- Facebook: @KoliBosco
- Instagram: @KoliBosco
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