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About: the Health Advocate

Full Name

Alisa Hughley

Website

http://enbloom.wordpress.com

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I earned an MPH with dual concentrations in health policy and management from Emory University while working at the CDC researching health care disparities. Before leaving lovely Atlanta I spent some time with good friends at the 1996 Olympics. A James Brown concert in the House of Blues tent kept me from being inside Centennial Park when the bomb exploded. I then headed north to Upstate New York where I worked in a health care system with hospitals and clinics from Buffalo to Albany. In 2000, I made my way to the nation's capital but by that September I was on the auto train to Tallahassee, Florida where I worked for the Al Gore presidential campaign. (Can you say voter fraud? what about civil rights violations?) So, I was off to Palm Beach where I guarded ballots and counted hanging chads. Late in November, I returned to my regular life only to find myself staring across the road at the Pentagon engulfed in flames and smoke on September 11, 2001. I walked from Arlington, Va across the Key Bridge to my home northwest DC that day. In 2008, I answered the political call yet again and participated in the historic campaign of Barack Obama by working at the Democratic National Committee. Since then, life has been just a little less extraordinary. I've taught biological sciences to urban high school students and bioethics to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in all disciplines of health sciences. I consult, design health education programs and speak often to adolescent audiences about preventing HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Posts by the Health Advocate:

• May 13, 2009 Humpday Humor

• May 11, 2009 A Place at the Roundtable on Health Reform

• May 8, 2009 5 Movie Picks with a Bioethics Theme

• May 6, 2009 Humpday Humor

• May 4, 2009 Study Shows Asthma Coaches Reduce Rehospitalization

• May 1, 2009 Just When She Thought the Asthma Was under Control

• May 1, 2009 Asthma, Allergies and the Air in May

• May 1, 2009 enBloom Goes to the Carnival

• April 30, 2009 What Should Be the Vision for the Future of Academic Medical Centers

• April 29, 2009 On the Subject of Science, Mr. Obama Gets It

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