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Tiffany Mae Brown, BA, MS |
Tiffany Mae Brown is a graduate student in the Geographic Information Science Certificate Program at Lehman College. Tiffany received her BA in Broadcasting from Temple University and her MS in Elementary Education from Mercy College. Tiffany taught in New York City public elementary schools for five years before deciding to return to school to study GISc. Tiffany was hired as a tutor at the Lehman College GISc Lab after only one semester in the GISc program. Because she excelled in GISc, she was given the opportunity to be a CIHE Research Scholar during the Spring 2011 semester. Tiffany was born and raised in the Bronx, and is interested in researching health disparities and the health effects of urban stressors in the Bronx. Tiffany's current research interest is the geospatial analysis of urban and environmental stressors. |
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Mallesha A. Malcolm, BS |
Mallesha A. Malcolm is passionate about health promotion and disease prevention. She is a graduate student at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. She is pursuing a Master of Public Health degree, with a concentration in Health Policy and Management. Mallesha also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. She has worked on various projects with organizations such as the American Cancer Society and the Brooklyn Perinatal Network, Inc. Mallesha is presently working to make CUNY a healthier place through a Healthy CUNY project, which encourages the use of the free mental health screenings and counseling services that are available on CUNY campuses, starting with Hunter. Mallesha's current research interests are in the areas of health policy, maternal-child health, mental health, health equity and social justice. Her passion is working with underserved and minority populations in and out of the clinical field, caring for them and advocating for their health needs. She is an avid supporter of holistic health, emphatically promoting the balance of physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being. |
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Megan Reed, BA |
Megan Reed is a master's student in Urban Public Health with an emphasis on Community Health Education at Hunter College, CUNY. She received her bachelor's degree with honors in Community Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Following her undergraduate degree, she trained out each workers and substance abuse counselors in Texas on HIV, Hepatitis C, and harm reduction, and worked as an affordable housing organizer in New York City. Her |
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Kimyetta Robinson is currently a student in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College's Master of Public Health program with a focus in Health Policy and Management. Prior to entering the MPH program, Kimyetta was a Program Officer at an anti-poverty organization. She also served as the program director for a volunteer-based court monitoring program at a court reform organization. Kimyetta received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University. |
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Rachael Weiss, MPH |
Rachael Weiss received her Masters of Public Health at Hunter College in 2009 and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Public Health in the field of Epidemiology at the Graduate Center/CUNY. She is a research fellow at the Urban GISc. Lab at Lehman College working on environmental justice and geospatial disparities in health. Her research interests include neighborhood determinants of healthy active aging. |
