Alla Akselrod, Mph Email & Phone Number

• Design and facilitate weekly in-person and virtual workshops for groups of 40+ Healthcare and Homecare workers using Resilience and Social-Emotional Learning to teach self-awareness, stress and anxiety reduction, and.
• Conduct 1:1 coaching sessions assisting clients with emotional regulation techniques and workplace and interpersonal conflict resolution.

• Motivate clients aged 18+ to set and achieve powerful goals and improve life satisfaction.
• Integrate evidence-based coaching techniques including positive psychology, solution-focused, client-focused, cognitive behavior theory, transformational, and mindset coaching to facilitate clients’ success.
• Design customized coaching plans for each client to maximize client growth and empowerment in all areas of life.
• Teach clients actionable tools including emotional intelligence, strength-spotting, anxiety and stress management, mindfulness, accountability, and efficiency to improve personal and interpersonal relationships, career.

• Ensured warm, prompt, professional service and nurtured clientele relationships in high-volume environment.
• Oversaw new employee onboarding, providing guidance and coaching to workers newly entering the service industry.
• Revitalized restaurant’s professional and interpersonal functioning by facilitating regular employee trainings improving teamwork, and motivating staff.
• Facilitated fluidity and trust between front- and back-of-house staff, ensuring excellent service for guests and maintaining a cohesive work environment to highest restaurant standards.

Exeter, GB

• Completed 200+ hours of fieldwork in El Cocal community in Costa Rica; conducted community needs assessment; built trusting relationships with local partners and volunteers to facilitate future projects.
• Succeeded in organizing community empowerment and mobilization workshops for El Cocal residents.
• Created weekly syllabi for local afterschool childcare program; organized and led daily activities for children and adolescents aged 0-17 years.

Valley Stream, New York, US

• Provided one-on-one ABA services to children with learning and developmental disabilities aged 2-10 years old.
• Utilized ABA interventions to improve behaviors such as speech or communication, social skills, and academics.
• Succeeded in developing strategies to improve patients’ adaptive living skills such as gross and fine motor skills, eating, and self-care skills.

US

• Assisted neonatologist, nurse practitioners, nurses on rounds; learned methods of trauma-informed patient assessment and treatment.
• Honed in on knowledge on reproductive, maternal, and infant health; observed labor and delivery.

NY, NY, US

• Entrusted to collaborate with former commissioner of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in co-authoring a comprehensive report describing policy options for prevention of pressing urban health problems.

• Tutored students grades K-12, creating lesson plans to assist students with English reading and writing comprehension, Elementary Science, and Biology coursework.
• Assisted students in preparation for ACT, SAT English reading and writing exams, as well as specialized high-school entry exams.

Jamkhed, Maharashtra, IN

• Successfully completed medical anthropology coursework at the Maharashtra, India-based Comprehensive Rural Health Project (non-profit, NGO); collaborated with local actors, including lay village health workers.
• Became trained in community-based primary healthcare delivery, anti-stigma campaigning, community mobilization and empowerment, poverty alleviation, and program sustainability in an economically challenged environment.

New York, NY, US

• Conducted research on cancer-causing biochemical pathways related to the mTOR molecule.
• Maintained several cancer cell lines, observing effects of varied media and inhibitors on cell growth; carried out PCR, western blot, enzymatic and radioactive assays; maintained laboratory station.

New York, NY, US

• Conducted in-depth online investigations on international human rights violations, armed conflict incidents, and public health concerns.
• Collaborated with team of 10 in the development of an interactive map detailing recent attacks on medical facilities in Syria.
• Researched and prepared a comprehensive memo on the emerging use and medical/political danger of military tear gas; examined scientific journals and articles for case studies on the biochemical effects of military tear.

• Advocated for women in the sciences through peer mentorship and program involvement, participating in meetings and seminars discussing the challenges faced by women in the sciences.
• Conducted 2+ years of cancer biology laboratory research, presenting studies at annual Undergraduate Research Conference.

• Travelled to New Orleans with team of 12 to assist in rebuilding homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
• Participated in local volunteer projects including planting flowers to beautify public schools in Harlem.
• Organized a bake sale at Hunter College, donating all funds raised to the Annunciation Mission of New Orleans to support its community outreach projects.

Masters In Urban Public Health, Community Health Sciences

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences