Janelle Edwards, MPH

UHC Doctoral Research Fellow

A recent MPH graduate of Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, Janelle Edwards is a young professional with a passion to ensure that health is a human right of all people. Her interests include emergency preparedness, climate impacts on health, built environment, and environmental justice. Her Master’s project was based on creating a vulnerability assessment for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health that predicted hotspots of high risk areas for pandemic influenza. She now works as an enumerator for the United States Census Bureau making sure that Philadelphians are counted so that Federal funding and policies are distributed in an equitable manner.