I AM GPH

Shahmir Ali, is currently a Ph. D. Candidate at NYU's School of Global Public Health, with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Prior to joining NYU, he earned his bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in public health studies and political science. Shahmir, a Pakistani-American, cites his global background as a major inspiration and contributor to his passion for public he...

In this episode, we are joined by Johanna Miele, an NYU GPH alumna (MPH '14) and inaugural GPH Alumni Board member. Johanna is a Manager of the Emergency Management and Enterprise Resilience team at NYU Langone Health, working closely with infectious disease response, mass fatality operations and multi-casualty incident readiness across the NYU Langone Health enterprise. Prior to her role at NYU L...

In this episode, we speak with Sutton King, an NYU GPH alumna and recently named a 2020 Mark & Debra Leslie Female Founders Fellow. Now more than ever, our world is looking to the future of public health. We are all critically examining the current structures and systems in place, while asking ourselves "What can we do to make a difference as public health professionals"? Sutton King, MPH '20 is d...

In this episode we are joined by Dr. Alden Lai, a management scholar who researches organizational cognition in health care and public health. He investigates the ways health care professionals and managers handle complex, ambiguous, or novel information at work, and how these processes contribute to the safety and quality performance of healthcare organizations. He also examines how people genera...

In this episode we speak with Niyati Parekh, Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition at NYU GPH, and Earlene Cruz, the founder and Director of Kitchen Connection.org. We discuss a wide range of topics including how climate change and Non-Communicable diseases relate to food insecurity and malnutrition, and we hear about their recent course with the United Nations and the World Food Programm...

In this episode we talk to NYU GPH alum Dr. Ben Spoer. Before starting his PhD at GPH Ben received a Bachelors in Philosophy from UC Berkeley. Despite that he found a job as a holistic health counselor at Lincoln High School on Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY. The students at Lincoln inspired Ben to pursue public health. Many of them lived in places that made it difficult, if not impossible, to be he...