Presented by: Ryan Petteway, DrPH, MPH

Dr. Ryan J. Petteway, DrPH, MPH is a public health scholar, educator, and poet who integrates social epidemiology, participatory research, and creative arts to advance health equity. He engages critical, Black feminist, and decolonial theory and methods to pursue procedural and epistemic justice and advance antiracist praxis within public health research and practice, including via satire/humor, music, and poetry. His applied research integrates social epidemiology and CBPR/YPAR to improve empirical and conceptual understanding of place and health, making use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to democratize/enhance research and public health practice processes. This work has included the development of a STEAM-based high school curriculum/training program focused on social determinants of health (SDH), health equity, and participatory research-yHEART PDX, the vouth Health Equity and Action Research Training program. Dr. Petteway's scholarship and creative works have been honored with multiple Societ for Public Health Education paper of the vear awards (2021,2022), a health data visualization prize from the American Association of Geographers (2019), a national poetry month prize (2020), a Pushcart Prize nomination (2020) and selections as finalist or short/long list for various other prizes. He co-founded and serves as an associate editor for the first-ever standing poetry department in a peer-reviewed public health journal. Prior to his doctoral training, Dr. Petteway served as social epidemiologist and chief epidemiologist for the Baltimore City Health Department. Before that, he sat on bench-backs and sipped "orange drink", listening to Mobb Deep while conducting observational studies of project lite. 
 

The focus of the Spring 2024 Epidemiology Seminar Series is Health Equity & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Students and GSR’s attending in person should swipe their Panther ID at the bottom entrance to G23 to register their attendance.
Students should come prepared with engaging questions for the presenters.
Students not registered for the course, postdocs, & faculty are welcome to participate. 
Course Director: Tiffany Gary-Webb, PhD, MHS