Season 5 Episode 8

Meet the 2025 Public Health Post Fellows

Each February, Public Health Post welcomes a cohort of Master of Public Health students to spend a year cultivating their public health writing and communication. Over the course of the year-long fellowship, students translate complex, academic research into plain language to engage readers and bring awareness to underreported, evidence-based public health solutions. The writing fellowships aim to enhance students’ written communication, with fellows publishing more than 30 articles. The multimedia fellowship is designed to translate PHP’s written work into entertaining and informative content for wider audiences across multiple platforms. Throughout their fellowship, PHP fellows develop a unique skillset in an age desperate for reliable public health information.

This year, PHP welcomed five new fellows to the team: Bernadette Carter-Salmond, Mallika Chimpiri, Rowena Lindsay, Jack Mellom, and Aidan Stotz. PHPod host and former multimedia fellow, Abby Varker, sat down with the incoming fellows to discuss their interests in public health and health communications as they head into their fellowships.