Bryce Puesta Takenaka, MPH, CPH

Bryce Puesta Takenaka, MPH, CPH (he/him) is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and a NIMH T32 Predoctoral Research Fellow in the Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. His scholarship grounds critical praxis to illuminate and interrogate structural violence and different manifestations of discrimination through geography and technology that shape HIV and health inequities among Black and Brown queer communities. Bryce centers Black and Brown queer voices through his work using geospatial mixed-methods and epistemic justice-oriented placemaking of health to inform responsible storytelling. Bryce 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. With a true passion for uplifting current and rising scholars in public health, Bryce is also the Founder of the Public Health Student Network (PHSN) where he facilitates student-led workshops and opens a platform for underrepresented students in academia to foster and build relationships.