Hager Shawkat
Program Director, Community Wellness
The Bronx, New York, United States
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Ms. Hager Shawkat is the Program Director of the Community Wellness department at Sauti Yetu Center for African Women in the Bronx, NY. She has over a decade of experience working in public health doing everything from door knocking for research, conducting community outreach, and facilitating sexual and reproductive health sessions.
Since beginning with Sauti Yetu in 2015, she established the Community Wellness department to provide tailored reproductive health education and expanded the scope of the Department’s work to include outreach and education for other health-based services to improve the health and well-being of our community members. She currently oversees five projects within the Department.
Ms. Shawkat holds a Master’s in Public Health from the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. She gained prior experience in research, program coordination, and program evaluation at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the New York Health Foundation, and Public Health Solutions.
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Tailoring Sexual Health Education for African and Muslim Youth in New York City
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women and Families designed a sexual health program to meet the needs of African and Muslim immigrant youth living in New York City. Our presentation will showcase scientific research which demonstrates how this population is often excluded from mainstream sexual health curricula, and how our innovative animated video series addresses this public health problem.
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