PublicHealth Focus/Interests:
Instructor Wachuku is passionate about building collaborative partnerships and creating lasting change that address disparities and social determinants of health in disadvantaged communities. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to work on several community-based public health programs, projects, and initiatives (from both the perspective of academia and as a community worker) to improve community health education and to foster community-based participatory research, effective program development, and high-fidelity program implementation. She enjoys using the performing arts as a platform to communicate, encourage, and facilitate healing conversations and healthy lifestyle changes. She firmly believes that creative, holistic interventions can leave a lasting positive impact on health outcomes for communities nationwide. Teaching graduate public health students has long been a goal ever since, and she hopes to pass on the appreciation, knowledge, and passion for holistic public health solutions that she has learned from her professors and mentors. Her future goals include international and public health policy relations and continuing her career as a public health researcher and professor.
Education:
Master of Public Health, 2018
Oakland University, Auburn Hills, MI
Bachelor of Health Science, Integrative Holistic Medicine, 2018
Oakland University, Auburn Hills, MI
Public Health Courses Taught:
PH 101: Introduction to Public Health (Undergraduate)
Professional Experience/Expertise:
- Community health education
- Program management
- Community based participatory research
- Program development and implementation
- Community networking
- Stakeholder engagement
Professional Activities or Current Research:
Recent Publications, Presentations:
Manuscript Under Preparation: We Need to Eat Too, Establishing Sustainable Food Pantries and Strengthening Food Distribution Systems to Combat Health Inequities in Flint, MI
