Nastassia Donoho

Global Health MPH’21

November 13, 2020

Nastassia Donoho is passionate about reducing maternal and infant mortality in low resource settings. Her interests formed through experiences in a variety public health roles. Before Rollins, she served in AmeriCorps, supported parents dealing with mental health, poverty, drug abuse, and premature birth through Healthy Families America, and traveled to Lesotho for the Peace Corps, where she worked with an organization that aims to reduce the impact of HIV on extremely malnourished children.

Donoho chose Rollins for her MPH because of the ability to pair a global health track with the maternal and child health certificate. Combining both these interests, she has participated in research on health facility readiness and breastfeeding during neonatal emergencies in Ethiopia with Dr. John Cranmer from the Woodruff School of Nursing. Donoho has also developed a particular interest in the impact of nutrition during an infant’s first 1000 days through courses such as the Global Elimination of Micronutrient Malnutrition, and she is considering continuing to explore this research area through a PhD.

Donoho urges students to take advantage of seminars while at Rollins and follow up with an email to express interest in the speaker’s work. She also suggests taking programming classes to learn how to think analytically. Finally, Donoho recommends for building a day into the week to do fun activities that are not school-related. Her favorites include watching the Great British Baking Show, exploring the murals of Atlanta, and playing with the cat she adopted in Lesotho.