Public Health Identity Crisis
December 13, 2021
CEMCHSpotlight
Tulane’s #CEMCH caught up with SPHTM MCH alum, Kara Hoffman, MPH, for today’s #CEMCHSpotlight. Kara is a Community Health Organizer for the Montefiore School Health Program (MSHP) in the Bronx in New York City. Montefiore established the first and oldest school-based health center model in the country, and has a goal to provide comprehensive, whole-person care to school-aged…
Reproductive Justice Faculty Speaker Series Lecture
Event reminder! Tomorrow is the first seminar of the Reproductive Justice Faculty Speaker Series. Dr. Monica McLemore, UCSF, will deliver the 8th annual Roe v. Wade Lecture, titled "An Uncertain Future – The Way Forward to Ensure Abortion Care, Access, and Reproductive Justice" Poster presentations by Newcomb Institute’s Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health interns will…
CEMCH Spotlight
Check out this article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth last month by CEMCH's very own Dr. Katherine Theall! Mass incarceration and public health: the association between black jail incarceration and adverse birth outcomes among black women in Louisiana This paper highlights a health disparity present right here in Louisiana, that "mass incarceration may be…
Public Health: Justice as Purpose
Seven of our MPH students attended the 2019 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA), held November 2-6, 2019, in Philadelphia, PA. What follows is a post from one of the attendees. by Sooni Shirazi, BA When you have a marginalized identity, or hold radical ideals, it is easy to feel left out,…