From SARS to HIV - Inspiring a Career in Public Health

On this episode of EJBTalks, Stuart welcomes one of Bloustein's new Public Health Professors, Yen-Tyng Chen. The two talk about how the personal impacts of the 2003 SARS outbreak inspired Professor Chen's interest in Public Health. Professor Chen then shares how her experiences during her PhD studies at Emory inspired her personal and intellectual interest in how race and built environments have huge impacts on health disparities. She discusses her research focusing on racial health disparities from HIV infection rates to maternal mortality rates. The two then discuss her next research interests around the public health impacts of structural racism.