After working as a public health associate for the CDC, Victoria Ami Shirriff, MPH ’19 (Environmental Health Sciences), is now pursuing her JD to further her aspirations of working in environmental and climate justice. "I took incredible courses at the Yale School of the Environment, Yale Law School, and Yale College during my time at the university," she says. "These courses directly tied into my work in public health, especially my coursework in urban planning, GIS, and data visualization." While working for the CDC’s Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support division in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Shirriff did health geography for non-communicable diseases and transitioned to COVID-19 response work when the pandemic arrived. "I loved working at a local health department because of the incredible relationships I was able to build with others in the office as well as in the community," she says. "One of the most beneficial things about YSPH was ...