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Associate Professor, Public Health

Dr. Elizabeth Allen holds a master’s degree in environmental health and a PhD in environmental epidemiology. In addition, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship focused on community engaged research methods to advance health equity and justice. Dr. Allen collaborates with ´ºÓêÖ±²¥s, international non-governmental organizations, and a global network of scholars in her research. Her work focuses on the impact of the environment on social, emotional, physical health.  Current projects include work on community health volunteer models, women’s empowerment in Peru, climate change, and social justice focused education.

Director and Associate Professor, Public Health

Susi Keefe is Associate Professor and the Program Director for the Master’s of Public Health at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University. She earned her undergraduate degree with a self-designed major from Mount Holyoke College in Culture, Health, and Science. She received her A.M. and Ph.D. in Anthropology with a focus on global health in East Africa from Brown University, where she was also a predoctoral trainee in Anthropological Demography in the Population Studies & Training Center. Based on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork in northern and coastal Tanzania, she has published articles and chapters on Islam and ethics, marriage and kinship, and intimate relationships among Pare and Swahili women. More recently her work includes collaborative, community engaged, social justice research projects. Community engaged research topics include: health equity, food access, reproductive justice, and environmental health. She is the director of the Food Justice Research Team and a co-founder of the Cross Campus Food Access Coalition in the Twin Cities, a member of the leadership team of the Metro Food Justice Network. Her current project is a collaboration with Our Streets Minneapolis on how communities experience the Twin Cities highways.