Adjunct Professor · Public Health Educator

Liv Delgado, MPH

Public health educator and scholar working across health policy, infectious disease equity, disability justice, digital pedagogy, and community-centered public health communication.

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Health policy, pedagogy, and infectious disease equityPublic health educator · Health policy · Infectious disease equity
About

Scholarship with a public-facing purpose.

I bring together classroom teaching, accessible communication, and public health practice to help students understand how policy, power, place, and prevention shape community health.

Education

MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Yale School of Public Health, with a Certificate in Public Communication from Yale’s Poorvu Center.

Public health focus

Vaccine equity, infectious disease outcomes, rural health, disability justice, LGBTQ+ health, and health policy education.

Teaching identity

Adjunct Professor in Health Professions teaching undergraduate health policy with a student-centered, applied, and creative approach.

Teaching

Courses, guest lectures, and pedagogy.

2026
Adjunct Professor, York College, City University of New York
HS 302 Health Policy, Department of Health Professions.
2025
Guest Teach-in Lecturer, Yale School of Public Health
Bodies, Barriers, and Biopolitics: Disability Praxis in Public Health.
2024
Guest Teach-in Lecturer, Yale School of Public Health
Understanding Dynamics of Power and Social Change for Health Policy Reform.
2024
Tutor, Yale School of Public Health
Health Disparities by Race & Social Class; Social Justice & Health Equity.
Research

Current areas of inquiry.

Infectious disease prevention

Rural vaccine equity, community health worker models, airborne disease prevention, and public health communication around prevention practices.

Digital health and pedagogy

Gamified learning, digital interventions, adolescent chronic disease management, and interactive tools for health policy education.

Health equity and justice

Disability justice, LGBTQ+ public health, maternal health, menstrual equity, and the structural determinants of health.

Methods and tools

Scoping reviews, public-facing scholarship, curriculum design, HTML/CSS/JavaScript educational projects, R, SAS, SPSS, REDCap, and Qualtrics.

Publications

Publications and scholarly contributions.

Back to the Earth: Exploring Midwifery as a Means for Supplementing Traditional Maternal Care

Delgado, L. (2023). DigitalCommons@SHU.

Maternal healthPublic health

Addressing Period Poverty: The Cost of Menstruating in America and the Ethical Responsibility to Provide Free Menstrual Care

Tabor, J., & Delgado, L. (2022). Academic Festival.

Menstrual equityEthics

The Sociocultural Determinants of Health and Wellness for Two-Spirit Indigenous North American Populations

Delgado, L. (2021). DigitalCommons@SHU.

Health equityIndigenous health

Integrated Social Work Practice

Student contributor for Cross-Denny, B. (2023). Cognella Academic Publishing. Chapters 15, 22, 24.

Contributorship

Global Health Foundations: Principles and Applications

Student contributor for Yale Global Health Faculty Working Group EPH-595 syllabus.

CurriculumGlobal health
Projects

Educational technology and public health design.

Global Health Policy Passport

Interactive health policy education platform using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Web APIs, gamified modules, policy simulations, achievements, local storage, and certificate generation.

Working papers

  • Normalized Noncompliance and Airborne Disease Prevention: The Continued Danger of “Droplet Dogma.”
  • Gamification as a Digital Strategy for Chronic Disease Management in Adolescents: A Scoping Review.
Contact

Connect.

Email

liv.delgado@aya.yale.edu
livdelgado131@gmail.com

Affiliations

American Public Health Association · Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science · Delta Alpha Pi