MPH Students

Congratulations, Health Messaging for Justice winners!

On April 12th, the Lerner Center announced the first, second and third place winners of the 2024 Health Messaging for Justice Student Competition. The three outstanding student teams then presented their health messaging materials to the Mailman community. You can watch the presentations here. Congratulations to our student winners!

First place:

Health, Happiness and Life: A Guide for Expectant Black Mothers in NYC  by Jazmyne Bullock, Courtney George, Ugomma Korie & Megan Spinella

Product: Podcast (coming soon!)

Second place:

Mapping Mutual Aid: Using GIS to Promote Health Equity in Buffalo, NY  by Kaiya John & Samina Rashiq

Product: Interactive map

Third place:

Desire Dialogues: A get to know you game for new sexual partners by Madison Moore

Product: Card game

This year, we received 13 submissions from students within five different departments. Health communication products included: documentary films, posters, magazine, e-book, card game, social media (FB, IG, TikTok), Zine, interactive map, fact sheet, podcast and short videos. We are so impressed with the student work. Thank you to our industry mentors, competition judges and student participants. 

View last year's (2023) Award Ceremony here.