173: Mind Over Matter To Impact Public Health with Dr. Quinyatta Mumford, DrPH, MPH, CHES

Interview with Dr. Quinyatta Mumford, DrPH, MPH, CHES

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Highlights from this episode:

1. Path to becoming an MPH Program Director and Assistant Professor
2. Combining academic and real-world experience to advance public health
3. Importance of disciplining and controlling one’s mind to enjoy good health, happiness, and peace
4. Process of founding her consulting company, Mumford and Associates

Episode 173 of Public Health Careers

Dr. Quinyatta Mumford, DrPH, MPH, CHES, is the MPH Program Director and Assistant Professor at New York Institute of Technology. She believes to enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind.

Quinyatta conferred her Bachelors of Biology at The University of Alabama Huntsville then went on to get her Master of Public Health in Community Health and Prevention Medicine at Walden University.

After graduating, she became a Lead Based Paint Epidemiologist at Arkansas Department of Health.

She had several other roles at the Arkansas Department of Health. These included being a Public Health Preparedness Epidemiologist, an Enteric Disease Epidemiologist, a Covid-19 Epidemiologist, and Director at the Office of Rural Health and Primary Care.

Quinyatta has also been the Founder and CEO at Mumford and Associates for over six years.

She then pursued a Doctor of Public Health at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Quinyatta has worked as an Adjunct Professor at New York Institute of Technology and still works as one at Southern Arkansas University.

She also works in a contract role as Chief Informatics Officer at the CDC Foundation.

Quinyatta is the MPH Program Director and Assistant Professor at New York Institute of Technology.