The Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship

Isabella is from Madison, WI. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology with a double minor in Public Health and Spanish from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and recently received her Master’s of Public Health degree with a concentration in Community and Behavioral Health Promotion from UW-Milwaukee's Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health. During her graduate career, she has also been part of her school’s Maternal and Child Health Graduate Certificate program. In 2022, Isabella became the first graduate student from her university to be a Title V Maternal and Child Health intern. As a Title V intern, she co-led a program evaluation of the Louisiana Department of Health’s resources and referral processes for pregnant people and new parents living in the State. She also has community engagement experience which she gained while working with a non-profit children’s dental clinic and child welfare non-profit. Isabella is passionate about working with maternal and child health populations to ensure they have equitable access to quality services needed to improve health outcomes. In her free time, she likes to try new restaurants, take long walks, and spend time with friends and family.  

Isabella will be placed at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health, Bureau of Community Healt Promotion, in their Family Health Section. 

Kristie is a Milwaukee native. She received a B.A. in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. After undergraduate school, Kristie moved to the Dominican Republic and taught at a bilingual school, before returning to Milwaukee to ultimately pursue her Master of Public Health from the Medical College of Wisconsin. While in graduate school, she became interested in maternal and infant health. She is especially passionate about working with maternal morbidity and mortality among Black women in Milwaukee, WI. She was able to work with the BOMB Doula program and the P.I.E. division of the Milwaukee Health Department during her field placement, and wrote a policy brief on the benefits of doula care. She continued to work with the BOMB Doula program during her capstone project, analyzing survey data for program evaluation. Kristie looks forward to continuing learning about and implementing structures for improving maternal and infant health in Milwaukee, WI. In her spare time, Kristie enjoys cooking, watching movies, hiking, and summer days spent at the beach.

Kristie will be placed at the Milwaukee Health Department.

Maddie received her B.A. in Public Health from Taylor University, and her Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Prior to graduate school, Maddie spent three years working for 3sixty, a community development nonprofit where she worked closely with neighbors, local organizations, and city government to promote neighborhood health and well-being. While in graduate school, Maddie’s coursework and research focused on community-based interventions, policy development, health equity, systems thinking, and program design. Additionally, Maddie worked as a graduate research assistant with ncIMPACT, a public policy organization housed in the UNC School of Government. In this role, Maddie contributed to the Carolina Across 100 initiative, which addresses longstanding and emerging challenges associated with COVID-19 in all 100 North Carolina counties. Maddie is interested in the intersection of public health and government and is passionate about seeing public health programs and policies effectively implemented at the local level. Originally from the Midwest, Maddie is thrilled to live and work in Wisconsin.

Maddie will be dual placed at the Rock County Public Health Department and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. 

Raphaelle received her BS in Biology and certificates in Global Health and Asian-American studies at UW-Madison in 2019 and recently completed her MPH with a concentration in Community Health Practice at DePaul University. She is going on 3 years of experience in education, serving 1 year with AmeriCorps Saga Education as a during-the-school-day tutor and 2 years in early childhood education as an assistant Pre-School teacher. As a graduate intern, she assists in the management and operation of the hospital-based food pantry program for the Community Health Department at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, addressing food insecurity among the patient population. Her capstone project involves expanding the food pantry program to include an additional avenue through which food-insecure patients are able to receive safe and healthy food. She also had the opportunity to conduct a small-scale community needs health assessment as part of the department’s involvement in the Avondale Faith and Health Collaborative. Raphaelle’s public health interests are broad, but she is particularly interested in health education, maternal and child health, and health disparities among immigrant communities. Her pastimes include planning dinners with friends, snowboarding, and solo karaoke.

Raphie will complete her fellowship with Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers in Milwaukee.

Ravyn is from New Orleans, La. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Fisk University in Nashville, Tn and earned a Master of Public Health from Xavier University of Louisiana. Ravyn’s career interests revolve around advocating for and addressing vulnerable populations’ experiences with inadequate healthcare. During her graduate career, she has gained experiences in behavioral health, recreation development, emergency planning and grant writing while using her health inequity lenses to find the gaps to suggest equitable and culturally competent approaches. Outside of her professional life, Ravyn enjoys live music, scenic nature views, binge watching the latest thrillers, and loves all things New Orleans.

Ravyn will be placed with the Foundation for Black Women's Wellness.

Originally from Janesville, Sydney received a BA in Anthropology with minors in Biomedical Science and Health Studies from Marquette University in Milwaukee. Her first exposure to public health was through volunteering as an HIV counselor at a neighborhood sexual health clinic. After graduating, Sydney became a public health educator with the Peace Corps in Guinea, where she focused on vaccination, water and sanitation, and malaria prevention. Upon her return to the United States, she completed an AmeriCorps VISTA service year in Anchorage, Alaska, promoting HIV/STI/substance use prevention and harm reduction with rural Alaska Native communities.  

Sydney then received an MA in Applied Anthropology from Georgia State University, as well as an MPH in Global Epidemiology from Emory University. While studying in Atlanta, she worked and volunteered in research, data analysis, communication, and project management roles surrounding substance use and overdose prevention, health literacy, sexual health, LGBTQ+ health, and infectious disease surveillance at her affiliated universities and with organizations such as the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health, CDC Foundation, Fulton County Board of Health, and the CDC.  

Sydney is excited to return to her home state and contribute to the Wisconsin public health workforce. In her free time, she enjoys crafting, reading, spending time outdoors, hitting local farmer’s markets, and hanging out with her two cats, Viggo and Michi. 

Sydney will be placed in Wisconsin Rapids with the Wood County Public Health Department.