Health Leadership Impact Fellowship

Paddy Qiu, MPH, is a public health researcher and evaluator, with their work bridging health equity, systems-thinking, and diasporic narratives. Their research spans a diverse range of public health challenges such as investigating HPV-related cervical health in Southeast Asia, transgender gerontology, racialized violence during the COVID-19 endemic, and the use of social justice films in nursing pedagogy.

They have contributed to a variety of community initiatives related to health and evaluation, conducting qualitative and quantitative assessments with the Carrboro Farmers’ Market to address local food systems, facilitating Photovoice sessions with formerly incarcerated individuals in the Chapel Hill area, along with front lining COVID-19 response efforts through a RADx-UP grant, offering and processing over 800 PCR tests from community members on and off the University of Kansas’ campus from 2020-2021.

With a Master in Public Health (MPH) in Health Equity and Social Justice from the Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Bachelor’s of Science (B.S.) in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Kansas, they aim to focus on community-engaged work that amplify and centralize communities who face minoritization in the U.S. and globally.