Eseosa Fernandes, MD, MPH Secretary

Dr. Eseosa Fernandes went to medical school at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She also earned her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. She is passionate about improving population health, particularly those in underserved communities. She is currently a preventive medicine resident at the University of Maryland, and envisions a career combining her interests in clinical medicine, academic research, community health and advocacy cohesively.

Dr. Eseosa Fernandes is passionate about social justice, and advocacy to change systems of oppression that marginalize individuals and communities based on social identities. She has significant research and project management experience, gained from working in various academic institutions in the United States. Notably, she served as a volunteer on the B’more for healthy babies project, an innovative initiative in Baltimore, Maryland, focused on lower socio-economic class African American women, to reduce infant mortality through programs emphasizing policy change, service improvements, community mobilization, and behavior change. This eye-opening project highlighted the ways the intersection of social determinants of health (race/racial segregation, gender inequity, socioeconomic class) interplay to lead to poor health outcomes, as well as a vicious cycle of poverty and vulnerability in our world.

Some of her hobbies include participating in community service, exploring the arts, theatre, reading and engaging in book club discussions, ted talks, podcasts on promoting equity and reducing racial disparities.