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Michelle Yao

Michelle Yao

AYSRH Content Practicum Student, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Michelle Yao (she/her) is a full-time Master of Bioethics student at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences (with a Minor in English and Cultural Studies) from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. She has previously worked on community initiatives and research centered on child and youth health, reproductive justice, environmental racism, and cultural awareness in health education. As a practicum student, she supports content creation for Knowledge SUCCESS, with a focus on addressing the topic of adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health.

South African Minister Bathabile Dlamini and her colleague sit at a booth presenting menstrual health education materials at the first ever symposium on Menstrual Health Management in East and Southern Africa in 2018 put on by the Department of Women and the UNFPA. Photo credit: GCIS
A teacher shows students condom use in an educational program to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS. Cambodia. Photo: © Masaru Goto / World Bank
Two people lecturing on a female condom
A man and a women with their shadows behind them
Two Jamaicans standing in front of a wall mural that reads "We are Jamaican". JFLAG Pride, 2020 © JFLAG
Transforming social and cultural norms. Credit: USAID in Africa