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Bryce Puesta Takenaka, MPH, CPH

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Biography

Bryce Puesta Takenaka, MPH, CPH (he/him) 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 leads with intersectional and participatory approaches to advancing spatial health justice, and illuminating structural violence and different manifestations of embodied health and HIV inequality. He engages in critical praxis and spatial methods to forward epistemic, procedural, and restorative justice for Black and Brown queer and trans communities. Concurrently with his doctoral training, Bryce is pursuing a Master of Arts in History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. He holds 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.

Education & Training

MPH
Saint Louis University, College for Public Health and Social Justice, Epidemiology (2022)
CPH
Saint Louis University, College for Public Health and Social Justice (2022)
BSc (Hon)
Lindenwood University, Public Health (2020)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Bryce Puesta Takenaka's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

2022

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Dean's Emerging Scholar and Diversity Research Award

  • honor

    Dr. Richard S. Kurz Graduate Student Leadership Award

  • honor

    Dr. Hans and Clara Zimmerman Foundation Health Scholarship

  • honor

    Health Promotion and Program Planning Award

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