Author's details

Name: Sally Pope
Date registered: 17 April, 2012

Biography

Sally Pope is a recently graduated student from the New York University Masters in Public Health Program with a concentration in Community and International Health. She received a B.A. from the University of Florida where she majored in History and minored in Anthropology. Sally has worked in public health internationally with Naturopathic Medicine for Global Health in Guatemala and the Gender, Health & Justice Research Unit at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has also taken grad school coursework in Mexico to study immigration and in South Africa where she studied the health impacts in a post-apartheid country. Domestically, she has interned at the United Nations Population Fund working on the rights on indigenous peoples and was a research intern at an NYU research center on HIV/ AIDS among young New York City men who have sex with men. While in grad school, Sally was the president of two public health student clubs and was an active member in NYU’s human trafficking group. Sally has skills in qualitative and quantitative data research and analysis, needs assessment, asset mapping, and program design and evaluation. Her interests lie in human rights, gender inequality and the health of vulnerable and displaced populations. As an SISGI Group Program and Research Intern, her work focused on refugees, women’s health issues globally and global environmental health issues.

Latest posts

1. Education in Refugee Camps — 20 August, 2012
2. What can be Done about Acid Violence in Colombia? — 15 August, 2012
3. Transparency in Research: The Controversy of Fracking in NY — 13 August, 2012
4. Breastfeeding in the USA — 10 August, 2012
5. Where Do Refugees Fit Into The Olympics? — 8 August, 2012
6. Climate Change and the Indian Blackout — 6 August, 2012
7. How US Cities Sweep the Homeless Under the Rug — 1 August, 2012
8. BP Partners with London 2012 Olympics on Sustainability — 26 July, 2012
9. The London Summit on Family Planning — 23 July, 2012
10. The Rise of Brazil: Part 2 — 13 July, 2012
11. North African Migrants and The Peril at Sea — 12 July, 2012
12. Holy Heat Wave: Is this proof of Climate Change? — 9 July, 2012
13. The Politics of Women’s Health in the US: Part Three — 6 July, 2012
14. Forced Marriage: How to reconcile differences in culture and tradition with law? — 29 June, 2012
15. The Politics of Women’s Health in the US: Part Two — 28 June, 2012
16. Who shoulders the refugee burden? — 22 June, 2012
17. The Rise of Brazil: Part 1 — 20 June, 2012
18. What really happens when you get rid of those old CDs? — 15 June, 2012
19. The Politics of Women’s Health in the US: Part One — 14 June, 2012
20. The Sahel Crisis: Social Media vs. News Media in a Refugee Crisis — 8 June, 2012
21. World Environment Day 2012: What does it mean to you? — 6 June, 2012
22. Women & Water: Why is water such a burden in the lives of so many women? — 4 June, 2012
23. What Happens When the Islands Sink? — 31 May, 2012

Most commented posts

1. What Happens When the Islands Sink? — 2 comments
2. The Rise of Brazil: Part 2 — 1 comment
3. BP Partners with London 2012 Olympics on Sustainability — 1 comment
4. The Politics of Women’s Health in the US: Part One — 1 comment
5. Who shoulders the refugee burden? — 1 comment