Honoring and commending Dr. Jamile Tellez Lieberman, Dr. PH, MPH, for her dedication to public health and service to the North Philadelphia Community.

Honoring and commending Dr. Jamile Tellez Lieberman, Dr. PH, MPH, for her dedication to public health and service to the North Philadelphia Community. WHEREAS, Dr. Jamile Tellez Lieberman graduated from Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health with a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree in June 2022, where she completed a significant dissertation on the mental health impacts of parental deportation among U.S.-citizen children of Mexican immigrants, exploring the role of anti-immigrant and anti-Latino discrimination; and WHEREAS, During her time at Drexel University, Dr. Lieberman focused on Latino immigrant health, community-based participatory research, maternal and child health, and the intersection of arts and health; and WHEREAS, Dr. Tellez Lieberman was selected as a Global Alliance for Training in Health Equity Research (GATHER) Fellow, working with the National Institute for Public Health of Mexico on COVID-19 orphanhood initiatives; and WHEREAS, Dr. Tellez Lieberman has made significant contributions to public health through her work with the Latino Health Collective in Philadelphia and the DrPH Coalition, including serving on a taskforce for the Tule River Indian Tribe in California; and WHEREAS, Dr. Tellez Lieberman is the Director of the newly established Esperanza Institute for Latino Health Equity, in addition to her leadership of the Housing and Economic Development (EHED) division at Esperanza; and WHEREAS, Esperanza is one of the nation’s largest …