Interview with Nia Smart, BS
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Highlights from this episode:
- How Nia created a business to address health literacy and education for historically marginalized communities
- Navigating her public health career with a bachelors in health sciences
- How the CDC Public Health Associate Program helped build her network, resume, and interest in public health
- How COVID gaps led her to start her consulting business, Smart Public Health Consulting
Episode 191 of Public Health Careers
Nia Smart is Founder & CEO of Smart Public Health Consulting where they are Increasing Health Education and Health Literacy in Underserved and Underrepresented Communities.
She also works as Collaborator + Consultant at WE Public Health LLC.
Nia is driven by her passion for promoting health equity for historically marginalized communities and is a seasoned public health professional with a proven track record of collaborating with federal, state, and local partners to address critical health disparities.
She conferred a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences, Pre-occupational Therapy Studies at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
Nia Smart worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant at Heritage Care & Rehab and Hopewell Senior Care. She then served as a Public Health Associate at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Later, she held roles such as Adolescent and Adult Immunization Coordinator at the New Hampshire Department of PH, Vaccine Program Manager at the CDC Foundation, and Access and Inclusion Project Manager at the CDC Foundation. Currently, she is the Founder & CEO of Smart Public Health Consulting and also collaborates with WE Public Health LLC as a Consultant.
Links from show
- African American Museum in DC
- Pointe in DC – chargrilled oysters
- Hemmingway website
- Public Health Associate Program
- CNA Certificate website
- Small business center, woman based small business center
- NCIRD – Immunization & Respiratory Disease
Connect with Guest
Nia Smart, BS on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nia-smart-08806293/