Come learn about different DrPH career options from established members in the field!
March's session will celebrate Women's History Month with three incredible and accomplished women DrPHers. Our speakers will share their experience with their current and past roles and provide advice to those seeking entry into their fields of expertise. They will highlight skills and tools that helped them in their process and share what a typical day in their role is like. Come prepared with questions and be ready to meet fellow DrPHers!
Speakers: Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Dr. Inyang Uwak and Johanna Miele
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH), with joint appointments in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. An epidemiologist by training, her work focuses on global health security, with a focus on pandemic preparedness, outbreak detection and response, health systems as they relate to global health security, biosurveillance, and infectious disease diagnostics. She directs the Outbreak Observatory, which conducts, in partnership with frontline public health practitioners, operational research to improve outbreak preparedness and response. Prior to joining the Center for Health Security, Dr. Nuzzo worked as a public health epidemiologist for the City of New York, where she was involved with disease and syndromic surveillance efforts related to the city’s Waterborne Disease Risk Assessment Program. Central to her duties was the management of an over-the-counter medication sales monitoring program, which was part of the city’s syndromic surveillance efforts. She also previously worked for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts on a local climate change initiative.
Dr. Inyang Uwak is a Senior Epidemiologist with the CDC Foundation, an independent nonprofit created by Congress to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s critical health protection work. Dr. Uwak provides her expertise in the field to the City of Houston Health department’s Bureau of Pollution Control and Prevention. She received her DrPH from Texas A&M University in Epidemiology and Environmental Health, her MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and her Medical Degree from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She currently serves as the APHA’s Environment Section Program Planning Co-Chair. When she is not working, she enjoys running in the park with her family and creating healthy treats.
Johanna Miele is a Manager in the Emergency Management + Enterprise Resilience team at NYU Langone Health, directing the implementation of an enterprise-wide infectious disease response, mass fatality operations, mass decontamination, and multi-casualty incident readiness across several acute care and faculty practice facilities in New York City and Nassau County. Prior to her role at NYU Langone Health, she worked at NYC Emergency Management as the Deputy Director of Health and Medical Planning coordinating with city, state and federal health officials in planning and response activities. During citywide emergencies, she worked with multiple public health and medical partners on a variety of natural and man-made hazards including supporting executive leadership during the city’s response to Ebola Virus Disease, Zika, and Legionnaires’ Disease. Johanna received her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Community & International Health at NYU School of Global Public Health and her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Columbia University. She is currently a first year in the inaugural cohort of the Doctor of Public Health program at NYU School of Global Public Health.
