Interview with Rabiah Asif, MPH
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Highlights from this episode:
1. Authoring “Contact Tracing during COVID-19 – A Systemic Public Health Failure”
2. Navigating higher education as a first generation student
3. How public health can partner with faith communities for lasting trust
4. Important work of Mobile Testing for COVID-19 in Philadelphia
5. Building and utilizing your network to progress your career
Episode 179 of Public Health Careers
Rabiah Asif, MPH is a Mobile Testing Supervisor at City of Philadelphia – Department of Public Health.
She has over five years of experience as a prevention practitioner and is a health equity advocate, a data driven innovator.
Rabiah conferred a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Rutgers University with an additional Healthcare Administration Certificate. During her time there, she was a Summer Intern at Lawrence Township Health Department and a Medical Scribe at Saint Mary Medical Center.
After graduation, she worked as a Project Assistant at Mathematica.
Rabiah then decided to pursue her Master of Public Health in Community Health and Prevention at Drexel University. While she was here, she worked as an Administrative Intern at Main Line Health.
After graduating with her MPH, Rabiah worked as a Health Educator at the Lawrence Township Health Department.
She then went on to become a COVID-19 Response & Contact Tracing Coordinator at City of Philadelphia, Department of Public Health before being promoted to the Mobile Testing Supervisor. Leading this work, Rabiah was able to present this work on Mobile Testing at the 2022 American Public Health Association Conference.
Links from show
“Contact Tracing during COVID-19 – A Systemic Public Health Failure”
Healthcare Administration Certificate at Rutgers University
