2020 Local Health Department Event with Teresa Long, MD, MPH

Dr. Teresa Long

The Public Health Interest Group would like to invite all to attend our first public event on Tuesday, September 29th noon-1 pm via Zoom with Teresa Long MD, MPH, former health commissioner of Columbus. Dr. Long began her career in public health as a physician specialist at San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, where she created innovative perinatal AIDS guidelines. She later joined Columbus Public Health in 1986 as assistant health commissioner and medical director, and in 2002 became health commissioner of Columbus. This event will be recorded. Register here:

go.osu.edu/teresalong

2020 M1 Representatives

Check out this year’s M1 Representatives!

Allison Yan graduated with an MSc in Medical Anthropology from Oxford University and is interested in infectious diseases epidemiology, addressing health disparities in migrant communities, & the anthropology of global public health.

Hayley Dunlop graduated with her MPH from the University of Edinburgh and is interested in cancer epidemiology and alleviating disparities in cancer care globally.

Alexia Martin received an MPH from the University of Minnesota in epidemiology with a minor in biostats. She’s interested in integrating public health into clinical care to promote health equity & improve patient outcomes (and stats).

Amanda Woo graduated with her MPH in health policy from Harvard. She is interested in women’s health & reproductive rights and using health policy to help underserved women.

Shuchi Sharma graduated from Arizona State with a bachelor’s in computer science. Shuchi would like to pursue interdisciplinary research that combines computer science, public health, & medicine.

Kristyn Brundidge received her B.A. in Neuroscience at Columbia. She’s researched social determinants of health in urban pediatric and geriatric communities and plans to use public health in public policy and advocacy work.