ABOUT

Dorcas Adedoja, MPH (pronouns: they/them/theirs) is a DotDash Anti-Bias Review Board Member. They serve as Alumni Board Vice President of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and sit on its FORWARD Accountability Cabinet. They successfully co-led efforts to launch the FORWARD (Fighting Oppression, Racism and White Supremacy through Action, Research and Discourse) program at the school. Dorcas received their MPH in Health Policy & Management with a Social Determinants of Health certificate in 2020. As a Gates Millennium Scholar, they are dedicated to building equitable public health systems for all.

Dorcas developed an HIV prevention and reproductive health awareness mobile app curriculum for youth as a Research Coordinator at Columbia University Nursing School. They continue to effectively advise health professionals, artists, activists, and the general public on best practices through the COVID-19 pandemic. They also drafted the inaugural sex and gender reporting guidelines at DotDash, formerly known as About.com.

While at the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dorcas organized the highest attended agency-wide Epidemiology for Equity event. They also analyzed COVID-19 re-opening survey data to produce recommendations for agency commissioners.

Dorcas is honored to bring their organizational transformation, health communications, fundraising, and crisis management experience to all in such a defining time in public health history.