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Allie Murphy

Allie Murphy

Fulbright scholar and MPH graduate from UTMB's School of Public and Population Health, conducting adolescent pregnancy research in El Salvador; UT Austin public health alum and This Is Public Health Ambassador.

Aug 27, 2026

18:35
Okay.
18:35
Um, but I thought that, you know, learning here and working here, I could bring some of this information back to the political and religious climate of Texas.
18:45
So hopefully from what I've learned, I can bring some of that back.
18:49
But it's been so, so wonderful to get to work with the communities here, going out to different schools, getting to talk one-on-one with these students and these parents, learning about, you know, their different dreams and desires on the kids' side and what they wanna do and, you know, how they plan out their life to, you know, avoid things like teen pregnancy so that they can go on and, you know, receive the degrees they want, things like that.
19:15
Learning from teachers, you know, how they integrate sexual education into their schools, um, even through, like, random lessons, always trying to find a way to work that in there to get the content to students.

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31:46
Yeah
31:46
... working in the same field.
31:48
So having those people you can chat with when, you know, things aren't looking the way that you want them to look is super, super important so that you can, you know, not get burnt out in the field.

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