Are you exploring the DrPh Degree, a current DrPH Student, a DrPH alumni looking for a new career path or just want to network with fellow DrPhers? This is the webinar for you!
Join us on May 3rd from 5:30 - 6:30pm for our next DrPH Coalition event: Exploring Career Pathways - Life After the DrPH Degree
We will be joined by a three person panel to discuss their career journeys, goals, and advice for life with a DrPH degree. There will be time for Q&A and discussion around the many career paths available for the DrPh degree.
This event is free for DrPH members and $5 for non-members and ally level membership.
Panelists:
Dr. Omar A. Escontrías has 15 years of public health expertise in the areas of community engagement, coalition building, health policy, and evidence-based research. Over the span of his career, Dr. Escontrías has worked with local and state governments in the areas of infectious and chronic disease prevention. His expertise in mixed methods allows him to provide guidance and expertise in the areas of research methods, epidemiology, project management, and public policy. He is dedicated to maximizing access to health care for the underserved/uninsured/underresourced populations with an aim to reducing health inequities among those disproportionately impacted by social and economic policies. Dr. Escontrías holds a Doctorate of Public Health in health policy and management, a Master of Public Health in epidemiology, a Bachelor of Science in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Arizona. Escontrías is the Senior Vice President, Equity, Research & Programs at the National Health Council in Washington, DC.
Ashley Hickson, DrPH, MPH is a social epidemiologist, intersectional womanist, and racial justice enthusiast. She has over a decade of diverse professional and community-based experience serving populations that are structurally oppressed and minoritized in various settings. In her current role as Senior Health Equity Advisor at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, she is tasked with building their internal capacity for operationalizing health equity, while developing their external strategy to engage with academic researchers and institutions, community leaders, and organizations across the nation in this important work. Beyond her professional experience, she has sought academic training and fostered strategic partnerships to equip her with the technical expertise to design high-impact interventions to mitigate long standing inequities. She holds a Doctorate of Public Health degree with a concentration in Health Equity and Social Justice from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the fall of 2021, where she was also a Food Systems for Health Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow. She conferred her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center, and has dual degrees (BBA and BS) from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently serves on several national health equity-oriented projects and workgroups and was a 2021 40 under 40 honoree (de Beaumont Foundation). She resides in her home state of Texas (Fort Worth) with her twin teenage daughters.
Dr. Deanna Lewis attributes her understanding of primary prevention and her passion for public health to her 20 years in the fire service. At the age of 21, Deanna made history as the first woman firefighter in the history of the Tucson Fire Department. A graduate of Stanford’s Primary Care Associate Program, Deanna has been a physician assistant for 15 years, served seven years in the Navy Reserve as a Hospital Corpsman, has a MBA from the Eller School of Management, completed two years as a UA/NASA Space Grant Fellow, and received her doctor of public health in 2018 from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
