Interview with Stephanie Wang
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Highlights from this episode:
- She started the Health Disparities Think Tank to address health disparities and empower students to pursue research and advocacy.
- How students can take charge of their journeys and create impact in their own way.
- Stephanie created a book called Epidemiology Unmasked to educate others about public health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- HDTT provides students with the opportunity to conduct thorough literature reviews, work in groups, and create papers that can be published and disseminated.
Episode 213 of Public Health Careers
Stephanie Wang, a rising junior at Harvard, shares her journey and passion for public health.
She discusses her interest in stem cell research and her focus on public health from a policy and disparities perspective. Stephanie talks about her experience with misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it inspired her to create a book called Epidemiology Unmasked to educate others. She also started the Health Disparities Think Tank, a student-led research to policy pipeline, to address health disparities and empower students to pursue research and advocacy in their areas of interest.
The Health Disparities Think Tank (HDTT) is an organization that focuses on addressing health disparities through research and policy advocacy. They work on niche topics that are often underexplored, such as reducing racial biases in AI, cancer screening rates among Asian Americans, and climate change’s health effects on undocumented children.
HDTT’s model involves students working in groups, conducting thorough literature reviews, and creating papers that are used to match them with mentors. The organization emphasizes proposing policy-focused solutions to reduce health disparities and connects students with policy advisors for actionable policy advocacy. HDTT aims to expand its network and become a national or international organization.
Links from show
Epidemiology Unmasked: An Introduction to Epidemiology in Public Health [Stephanie’s Book]
Harvard University | Molecular & Cellular Biology and Global Health & Health Policy
Harvard Square – Blank Street Coffee
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