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Fawn N. Rhodes, MPH, ACUE

Fawn N. Rhodes, MPH, ACUE, is a community health engagement strategist, faith-based health equity advocate, educator, consultant, and doctoral scholar in Global Health Equity at Meharry Medical College School of Global Health.

A native of Wilmington, North Carolina, now based in Raleigh, Fawn earned her Bachelor of Science in Behavioral and Social Sciences from North Carolina Central University and her Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Her work lives at the intersection of research, practice, faith, and community. She examines how structural and institutional environments shape the health, well-being, and lived experiences of Black women and historically marginalized communities.

Fawn’s doctoral scholarship explores institutional workplace trauma in public health spaces and its relationship to weathering among Black women. She is also the creator of the Public Health Griot Approach™, a culturally grounded framework that recognizes story as evidence and moves lived experience toward healing, translation, action, and accountable return.

As an adjunct public health faculty member and founder of Rhodes To Wellness, LLC and The Public Health Griot™, Fawn helps learners, leaders, organizations, and communities turn knowledge into meaningful action. She brings scholarly discipline, Southern warmth, spiritual grounding, and plainspoken accountability to the work of advancing health equity.

Fawn is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, the American Public Health Association, the North Carolina Public Health Association, the NAACP, and the Urban League.

Her guiding belief is simple: Equity is not merely an idea. Equity is a verb.