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2009 Young Academic Leadership Achievement Award Nominee
Camilla Marie Benedicto, MPH, CPH
(818) 632-6937
Camilla.benedicto@nih.gov
Camilla Marie Benedicto, MPH, CPH, is a certified Public Health professional and a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health which is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ medical research agency. She has worked in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, the Office of Advocacy Relations, and currently at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She will graduate from the PMF program in August 2010 and has plans to pursue a doctorate in public health.
After her sophomore year of high school, Camilla started her undergraduate studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, MA, on full scholarship. After earning her Associate’s degree, she transferred to Brown University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Community Health. While at Brown, Camilla served as co-chair of the Filipino Alliance and performed in Archipelag-a, a spoken word group comprised of Filipina students. After graduating from Brown, she served as a Leadership in Action intern with Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), a community-based service organization in Historic Filipinotown, and Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP) in Los Angeles.
Camilla earned her Master’s degree in Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she focused in Aging and Public Health. Camilla served as a research assistant for Columbia’s Center for the Health of Urban Minorities, the Center for the Psychosocial Study of Health and Illness and the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health. She completed her graduate practicum as a public policy intern at the Long Term Care Community Coalition, which inspired her to write her Master’s thesis on the future accessibility, viability and necessity of nursing homes in New York. Camilla has co-authored two peer-reviewed papers.
Camilla is currently a member of KAYA-DC: Filipino Americans for Progress; the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF), DC Chapter; the Maryland Public Health Association; the American Public Health Association; and Young Government Leaders-Bethesda Chapter.
