Olivia Brandon’s interests in health care swing from micro to macro.
She loves sodium — not the variety most of us love at dinner time — but the element sodium and its impact on infant health. She’s so passionate, her lab peers will tell you she’s salty about it.
The University of Washington School of Public Health is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Public Health-Global Health (PH-GH) major, a milestone marking the growth of interdisciplinary public health undergraduate offerings around the country that are training the next generation of public health-minded professionals.
Danafe Matusalem (PH-GH, ’18) shares her interests in equity, diversity and inclusion, and for all individuals to have equitable health access and educational opportunities.
Associate Teaching Professor Anjulie Ganti of the Public Health-Global Health program shares what experiential learning looks like, the impact of the major’s capstone program on communities, and how to improve health equity when training the future public health workforce.
In this Q&A, Sabica Nasar (PH-GH, ’22) describes the importance of social determinants of health and systems thinking to improve health outcomes at a population level.
There’s a line Brittney Dias wrote that’s been serving as inspiration for herself and the children she writes for: “No matter the time, no matter the day, Ava and Mae find a way.”
Ava and Mae are two Black girls and protagonists of a children’s book series written by Dias. Their message of perseverance also speaks to the work Dias is committed to, which is to increase diverse representation of main characters in children’s media.
Caroline Sandbo (PH-GH, ’22) shares why she feels fortunate to have found a major that uses both lab work and social sciences to improve health on a population scale.