Full Name
Anthony Nicome
Job Title
Environmental Justice Fellow
Company
Association Of American Medical Colleges - Center For Health Justice
Speaker Bio
Anthony is the inaugural Environmental Justice Fellow at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Health Justice. He recently served as the Alternate Designated Federal Officer for the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. He has also advanced public health and environmental protection by enforcing the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA) through his work in the EPA’s Water Division across multiple regional offices.
Previously, Anthony served in various public service and academic roles, including as a Community Outreach Assistant at the Moncrief Cancer Institute and as a Research Assistant at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, the University at Buffalo’s Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, and the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative. His first exposure to health equity research came as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Scholar at Morehouse College and the University of North Carolina Center for Health Equity Research, where he contributed to the development of evaluation measures for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
Anthony holds a Bachelor of Science in Geography from Texas Christian University and a Master of Health Science in Environmental Health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he focused on food systems, occupational health, climate change, and environmental justice. His graduate research critically analyzed the shortcomings of the Safe Drinking Water Act, proposing policy reforms with a particular emphasis on historically marginalized communities. In 2021, he was inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society, Alpha Chapter at Johns Hopkins.
Anthony is a graduate of the Yale University School of Public Health, where he continued his training in Environmental Health Sciences and is also an inaugural Strategic Partner of the National Academy of Medicine's Climate Communities Network and a freelance writer for Civil Eats, where he explores the intersections of the U.S. food system, transportation, and public health.
Previously, Anthony served in various public service and academic roles, including as a Community Outreach Assistant at the Moncrief Cancer Institute and as a Research Assistant at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, the University at Buffalo’s Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, and the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative. His first exposure to health equity research came as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Scholar at Morehouse College and the University of North Carolina Center for Health Equity Research, where he contributed to the development of evaluation measures for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
Anthony holds a Bachelor of Science in Geography from Texas Christian University and a Master of Health Science in Environmental Health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he focused on food systems, occupational health, climate change, and environmental justice. His graduate research critically analyzed the shortcomings of the Safe Drinking Water Act, proposing policy reforms with a particular emphasis on historically marginalized communities. In 2021, he was inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society, Alpha Chapter at Johns Hopkins.
Anthony is a graduate of the Yale University School of Public Health, where he continued his training in Environmental Health Sciences and is also an inaugural Strategic Partner of the National Academy of Medicine's Climate Communities Network and a freelance writer for Civil Eats, where he explores the intersections of the U.S. food system, transportation, and public health.
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