1054 - Interview With a Graduate: A Newly Minted DrPH in Louisiana
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
About this episode:
It's graduation time at the Bloomberg School! In this episode: New graduate Della Wright shares how a passion for community engagement and a drive to sharpen her skills steered her towards public health, and how a DrPH degree is supercharging her work bringing researchers and communities together to protect the environment.
Guest:
Della Wright, DrPH, MPH, is a Bloomberg Fellow and the director of evaluation at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is distinguished professor of the practice in Health Policy and Management, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
Show links and related content:
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Get to Know Della Wright—Bloomberg American Health Initiative
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HBCU-CBO Gulf Equity Consortium—Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
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| 0:00.0 | It's Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer and co-host of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:03.7 | Thank you for joining us for this season of the podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | We'll be taking a break the week of May 25th, returning for season 14 on Monday, June 1st. |
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| 0:30.3 | health challenges. |
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| 0:50.3 | It's Lindsay Smith-Roggers, and it is graduation week at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:56.6 | Today, we're featuring an interview with one of our graduates in the Doctor of Public Health or DRPH program. |
| 1:02.6 | Della Wright is the Director of Evaluation at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, and she speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about her path to public health, her work at the |
| 1:11.6 | center, her doctoral dissertation, and what comes next. Let's listen. Delo Wright, thank you so much |
| 1:18.1 | for joining me today on Public Health on Call. Congratulations on your graduation. Thank you so much, |
| 1:25.2 | and thanks for having me. So take me back to the decision to come to study at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 1:32.3 | What were you doing then and what had led up to that point in your career? |
| 1:36.3 | Well, I guess my journey towards the field of public health and what attracted me to the field in general is that it is so broad, and I feel like anyone |
| 1:45.5 | could find a path for themselves in public health. And mine has changed many times over the last |
| 1:51.7 | like 15 or so years. So I kind of came to public health through an AmeriCorps posting immediately |
| 1:58.3 | after my undergrad degree. And that brought me into New Orleans, |
| 2:02.4 | which has been my home ever since. And I was focusing on HIV prevention. And I was working in |
| 2:08.3 | an organization that focused on reproductive justice and sexual health. And everyone there I thought |
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