Akilah Wise
Class of 2020
Akilah Wise is a public health researcher and writer living in Atlanta, GA. Her work has focused on the structural determinants of unintended pregnancy, incarceration and HIV risk among heterosexual men and women, and place‐based factors related to HIV risk among people who inject drugs in the United States. She earned her doctorate from the University of Michigan and has held Postdoctoral Fellowships at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her work has appeared in Women’s Health Issues, the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Public Health Reports, as well as The Nation, Rewire, and other places.
Teens: Manage your stress during COVID-19!
Why self-care is important during COVID-19 – especially for health care workers
ABORTION PROVIDERS FIGHT TO KEEP WORKING DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
We Are Facing a Resurgence of Sexually Transmitted Infections Amid the Pandemic
The hidden cost of ‘stop-and-frisk’
DECODER – Trauma can be addressed in schools. Some are trying.
Structural Racism in Medicine Worsens the Health of Black Women and Infants
