What We Do for Health
My path to public health included a beauty pageant in the world’s newest country.
Identifying and removing barriers to optimal health; pursuing ways to help disadvantaged communities become and stay well
My path to public health included a beauty pageant in the world’s newest country.
Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD '06, MPH, uses research to advance policies that promote health equity, especially where people live, work, play, and travel.
Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH '93, works to advance health equity with scholarship on racial disparities in patient-physician communication and community-informed interventions.
Darrell Gaskin, PhD '95, MS, is a health economist who advances community, neighborhood, and market-level policies and programs that reduce health disparities.