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Erica Chung

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Erica Chung MPH CPH[edit]

Introduction:[edit]

Early on in Erica Chung’s higher education, she imagined she would follow a more traditional public health career path, with an early interest in food science and an internship with the Department of Homeland Security. After learning about environmental justice in the second year of her master's degree in public health she found her passion. Chung is now working with the Minnesota Department of Health as an international health planner. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she worked as a communications specialist with the Minnesota department of health. Working with the department of health has allowed Chung to connect with her community to help develop well-researched risk factors for marginalized groups in her area.

Personal life:[edit]

When Erica Chung was a child, her family moved from New York City to Taiwan although came back to the States shortly after due to civil unrest. When her family moved back they settled in a small town just outside of Pittsburgh, where Chug unknowingly experienced environmental injustice firsthand. Upon moving away to Minnesota the family discovered they had been living on an old coal mine site and being constantly exposed to coal mine dust. Facing this environmental injustice lit a fire in Chung to combat and highlight environmental injustice through public health. In addition to Chungs environmental injustice work she also runs her own food blog and freelance photography business.

Education:[edit]

University of Minnesota Bachelors of Biology 2013-2016 Columbia University Masters in Public Health 2017-2019

Career:[edit]

During Erica’s time studying for her Masters, she started working as a public health content writer for Because Health, a nonprofit environmental health site that seeks to provide science-based evidence of how where we live and work impacts our health. Upon completing her master's degree in public health at Columbia University, Chung started her professional career in public health in 2019 as a health educator for Healthy Building network. A nonprofit based out of Washington D.C that is working towards a future free of toxic chemicals, their work focuses on marginalized groups and children who are disproportionally exposed to toxic chemicals in the environment. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chung started a new position as a communication specialist with the Minnesota state department of Health. In this role, Chung was tasked with a COVID-19 Emergency Response Team in the communication sector.

Activism:[edit]

Through her position, with the Minnesota department of health, she has worked with a team to increase diversity and inclusion within health communication projects. Another aspect of Chung's work is outreach to marginalized groups who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Communication of health information is seen as one of the most important issues in environmental justice, “Poor access to health information and health care means less health promotion, less risk avoidance, a less healthy diet, and more adverse conditions that increase susceptibility to exposure”(Michael Gochfeld MD 2011)

Aside from Erica Chung's work with the department of health, she is also an advisor on the Environmental Justice Advisory Group of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). With this group, Chung had regular meetings with MPCA’s Commissioner, Laura Bishop to advocate that all decisions should be made with an equity framework. Later on November 12th, 2020, the same MPCA’s Commissioner, Laura Bishop, approved the line 3 oil pipelines water crossing permit which allows the Canadian energy transportation company to finish building their pipeline that is meant to run from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. This pipeline will be in direct violation of indigenous land treaties in Minnesota and have the potential to harm many people in its path. Upon Laura Bishop's decision to approve the pipeline, 12 out of 17 advisors to the board resigned, Erica Chung was among them.

Erica Chung is also starting an organization to help people from disadvantaged groups get into the field of medicine in an effort to help diversify the medical field. She hopes to provide helpful resources and a space for people interested in the medical field to connect and share.

Licenses:[edit]

Certified in Public Health (CPH) National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE)

Publications:[edit]

Nutritional genomics and disease prevention: a case for colorectal cancerNutritional genomics and disease prevention: a case for colorectal cancer AgroFOOD Industry Hi Tech (Teknoscienze Publisher) · Sep 1, 2015

Honors and Awards:[edit]

Janathan D Smidt Scholarship from Columbia University, May 2017 Monica Tsang and James Weatherbee Scholarship from Columbia University, April 2016 College of Biological Sciences Giving Scholarship from Columbia University, March 2015 Undergraduate Research Scholarship from Columbia University, September 2013

Links:[edit]

https://chung384.journoportfolio.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-chung-public-health/

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  1. Minnesota Department of, Health. "Resources and Opportunities". Retrieved 2022-11-01.
  2. Gochfeld, Michael (2011). ""Disproportionate Exposures in Environmental Justice and Other Populations: The Importance of Outliers."". American Journal of Public Health. 101 (Suppl 1): S53–S63. doi:10.2105/ajph.2011.300121. PMC 3222496. PMID 21551384.
  3. Bautista, Alison (14 July 2021). ""Erica Chung: Bringing Environmental Justice into the Public Health Sphere." A Call for Change Minnesota Environmental Justice Heroes in Action". Retrieved 2022-10-27.