Bryce Puesta Takenaka, MPH, CPH

Bryce 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 community and participatory approaches to advance health equity and illuminate structural violence and different manifestations of embodied inequality. He engages in critical praxis and methods that forward procedural and epistemic justice-oriented placemaking of health and HIV to inform responsible storytelling. 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.