Three Fielding School alumni decided to run for political office to improve their hometown communities — with public health as the cornerstone of their winning campaigns.
FSPH Professor Emeritus Virginia C. Li witnessed the results of more than three decades of Fielding School training of scholars who returned home to China to make a difference.
FSPH alum Nelida Duran explored the Arctic Region to discover how indigenous communities are adapting to climate change, and how globalization is encroaching on traditional ways of life.
Having thrived during her training at the Fielding School, Kate Crespi is using her faculty position to ensure that her students reap the same rewards.
FSPH alum Lindsey Pollaczek is helping to transform the lives of women in sub-Saharan Africa who have a devastating condition that has largely been eradicated elsewhere.
As director of the San Francisco health department’s Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Section, alum Mary Hansell sets at-risk groups on a healthy course.
Nearly two decades after earning his PhD at the Fielding School, Vonthanak Saphonn is overseeing the education of Cambodia’s future health professionals.
