Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Megha Ramaswamy

Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS, USA

Biography

Moving between New York City and Kansas City throughout her educational career, Megha brings an emphasis on the intersection of urban living, race, class, gender, and health to her work at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Megha recently completed a PhD in Sociology at City University of New York, The Graduate Center. Her dissertation research was on progressive masculinities and social and policy factors that structure health and social risk for young men involved in the criminal justice system.

Publications

Pipeline Efforts with a Freirean Twist: The Juntos Health Disparities Research Internship

Increasing workforce diversity is essential to improving the health outcomes for minority populations, particularly Latinos. This paper describes an innovative 6-week health disparities internship program for underrepresented precollege and college students aimed at empowering students to become health science researchers focused on issues that con... Read More»

Maria Alonso Luaces, Natalia Suarez, Octavio Estrella, Megha Ramaswamy, Won Choi and Ana-Paula Cupertino

Research Article: J Community Med Health Edu 2013, 3: 233

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000233

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