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Tess Thompson
School Attended While Participating in the Student Fellows Program: Washington University in St. Louis (MPH student)
Contact E-mail: tessthompson@wustl.edu
Areas/Topics of Interest in MCH:
health narratives
childbirth and breastfeeding
global health
reproductive health
Current Research/Area of Study:
breast cancer and social support
family health history
breastfeeding promotion
Accomplishments:
Rhodes Scholar (studied women’s philanthropy in Victorian literature)
published fiction and poetry
one of the founding teachers of Raleigh Charter High School
BJC Scholar at Washington University
Current Work:
Research assistant at the Health Communications Research Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis
Practicum student at the Division of Health Behavior Research at the Washington University Medical School
Working on a project to promote breastfeeding in an urban slum of Haiti
Future Work:
I’m interested in people’s narratives in their own health, and I’d like to study further the factors that make narratives and stories effective in health promotion. I’m also interested in analyzing women’s reproductive and childbirth choices.
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