Career Compass: Charting Traditional and Non-Traditional Public Health Paths

Join NYU GPH for thought-provoking discussions by distinguished leaders in public health representing a variety of backgrounds and diverse experiences and knowledge within the field of public health. This was a great opportunity for general student professional development and discussion around educational pursuits, post-graduation plans, and work-life balance. 

Panelists:

Felicity Belle Duran, Project Manager at CVS Health

A 2019 graduate of NYU GPH, Felicity Belle Duran earned her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Global Health; she was also active in the project labs of the Applied Global Public Health Initiative. During the pandemic emergency, Felicity worked as a Program Coordinator for NYC Health + Hospitals' Test & Treat Corps, where she had a hand in Covid-19 education and the distribution of vaccines. She works as a Project Manager in Immunizations at CVS Health.

Elena Cromeyer, DrPH student and Lecturer at Rutgers University

After concentrating in Community Health and graduating with her MPH in 2009, Elena Cromeyer’s broad experience in public health has ranged from childhood obesity prevention to tobacco prevention, from maternal health to intimate partner violence direct services, and from health policy and COVID to other infectious and zoonotic disease response. Elena understands that these and other public health issues are interconnected, affecting not only humans, but also animals and the natural environment. In other words, they are One Health issues.