Bryce Puesta Takenaka, MPH

Bryce Puesta Takenaka, MPH (he/they) is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and a T32 Research Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. His scholarship grapples with issues of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, urbanism, and environmental justice. Bryce is constantly drawn to questions and debates that contend with the nuance of how geographies are created, represented, occupied, transformed, and imagined as they relate to the embodiment of health and HIV inequities. He leans into transnational epistemologies to usher the use of participatory mixed methods and radical spatial practices to illuminate the contours of settler colonial violence and transgress towards anti-colonial futures and possibilities. Bryce holds a Master of Arts (MA) in History of Science and Medicine from Yale University, a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology from the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University, and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Lindenwood University.