Dr. Richard Lane attended University of Maryland where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology with a concentration in oceanography and his Doctor of Medicine in 1982. He proceeded to earn his Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine degree from Tulane University four years later. He completed an ... Read more
Crissey Tait
Updated June 23, 2022 by Crissey Tait
Dr. Ike Anya is a consultant in public health medicine, writer, honorary lecturer in Public Health at Imperial College London, cofounder of Nigeria Health Watch and cofounder and principal consultant of EpiAfric, a public health ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 24, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
Dr. Katherine Semrau, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Epidemiologist at the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and the Director of the BetterBirth Program at ... Read more
Gloria Onwuneme
Updated June 26, 2022 by Gloria Onwuneme
I woke up abruptly from my jet-lagged sleep surrounded by a bed net, two fans, and the smell of the DEET bug spray I had applied before going to bed. One of my team members ... Read more
Crissey Tait
Updated June 26, 2022 by Crissey Tait
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) sits in the heart of Memphis, one of the poorest major cities in the country. Yet medical students at UTHSC rarely engage in things that directly affect ... Read more
Stacy Smith
Updated August 8, 2022 by Stacy Smith
Republished with permission from here. Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, an OB/GYN, doesn’t have a typical office.Inside are rows of hanging plaques and accolades, a photo of him with former President Bill Clinton, and a set of ... Read more
Anna Delamerced
Updated June 26, 2022 by Anna Delamerced
Chronic conditions, such as Type II diabetes and hypertension, account for seven in 10 deaths in the United States each year. And by some estimates, public health factors, such as the physical environment we live ... Read more
Erik Black
Updated March 16, 2019 by Erik Black
Mellissa Withers, MHS, PhD, is an assistant clinical professor at University of Southern California (USC) in the Institute for Global Health and leads the Global Health Program of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, a ... Read more
Juliet Farmer
Updated June 26, 2022 by Juliet Farmer
Dr. Beth Seltzer, board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, is a former documentary filmmaker and the author of 101 Careers in Public Health.
Juliet Farmer
Updated June 27, 2022 by Juliet Farmer