With the words of Alexandre Dumas engrained in her spirit, Tambra Stevenson,
the outgoing president of the Tufts Public Health Student Senate (PHSS), tirelessly                
seeks opportunities to improve the student experience in the Tufts public health 
program and advancing her knowledge and experience in health communication. 

This past Spring, she completed an account management internship at Hill Holiday 
working on competitive analysis in small business and health care marketplace for an 
HMO account while working on her master's project, the YO! Health Study in creating 
youth-centered, multicultural health career website for the Tufts public health program. 
Because of her interests in using business strategies to improve public health, she 
completed coursework at Boston University Graduate School of Management in health 
care marketing and entrepreneurial management.

Last fall, the CBS Healthwatch intern worked on projects for the health producer 
and station's web master. There she transcribed medical interviews like the discovery 
of the video pill by a physician researcher at a Tufts-affiliated hospital, which broadcasted 
in November 2003. Also recently, she helped to establish and organize the health tape 
library. For the web, she copy edited and uploaded WBZ news and selected Boston top 
stories for the corporate website. 

Tambra, a charter member of the Tufts PHSS, initiated and constructed the Senate's first 
constitution, branding and communication materials  (i.e. website) and its first survey on 
student concerns for the Senate, which begun in 2002. Working with the faculty and Senate, 
she’s currently advocating for Tufts’ first student-run, peer-reviewed online publication to 
promote scholarly work among its students and alumni in public health.
               
As part of the Ad Club of Boston Summer Internship Program in 2003, Tambra worked in 
the local corporate development department at WGBH-TV (PBS affiliate) in Boston. There 
she created and maintained databases of non-renewal companies and updated underwriting/
sales materials by translating the media research data and assisted the department director 
and client services manager in communication efforts and coordination. 
               
Since coming to Boston in 2002, she helped to manage nonprofit/health accounts for Kelley 
Chunn and Associates, a multicultural and cause-related public relations and marketing firm. 
Also she created health media database, helped with event  planning and wrote press releases 
and pitch letters providing client support such as establishing templates and scripts. 
               
Ultimately she became an intern and later a consultant for Kelley Chunn & Associates' former 
client, the Boston Black Women’s Health Institute. She had directed health communications 
efforts, executed public affairs strategies and managed a range of health issues, including 
breast cancer, domestic violence, and wellness, at the BBWHI. There Tambra managed the 
local campaign efforts for the U.S. HHS’    Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day, coordinated 
the media interviews for the executive director, and developed and coordinated the 
marketing and advertising of programs.
               
Additionally, with broad experience ranging from quantitative to qualitative research in 
community and clinical settings to marketing communication, Tambra understands the 
importance of collaboration and translating research to practice,  especially communicating 
health issues that impacts consumer behavior and perceptions. Previously, Tambra interned 
at the Harvard School of Public Health where she conducted, presented and published 
research on recruitment strategies of low-income Hispanic women in a nutrition/physical 
activity intervention during the summer of 2001. Her experience at Harvard catalyzed her 
pathway into health communication and social marketing. Intrigued with using marketing and 
policy strategies to address social health issues and behavior changes, particularly with ethnic 
minority populations, she pursued graduate school.
               
Understanding that research is the backbone to the effective programs, Tambra has 
actively presented and published her research in clinical and community-based nutrition, 
public health and health communication locally and nationally at the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Region VII Student National Medical 
Association Medical Education Conference, OSU Graduate Research Symposium, 
Oklahoma Partners in Biological Sciences Undergraduate Symposium 
and Oklahoma Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting.
               
Tambra has served as a board member of the Kappa Omicron Nu Professional Honor 
Society (in human sciences) and on the OSU’s Student Health Center Advisory Board 
and Student Conduct Board. 
               
Tambra has celebrated many firsts and more to come. As a former National Service 
Scholar, she continuously gives her time and talents to several organizations. She has 
served as the founding chair of the communication technology committee of the 
Boston Alumnae Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She spearheaded the 
formation of the chapter’s first website, coordinating the newly designed monthly 
chapter newsletter and providing technical assistance for committees. Tambra, the
former valedictorian, received OSU’s Lew Wentz research grant in 2000 and KON’s 
undergraduate research paper competition in 1999. She also received the Tufts Public 
Health Scholarship and the 
Nellie Mae Scholarship.                
               
Prior to coming to Tufts, Tambra was OSU’s first David L. Boren National Security 
Education Scholarship recipient in 2002. The scholarship gave her the chance to study 
abroad at the CIEE Public Health Program at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y 
Maestra in Santiago, Dominican Republic. There she learned first hand the urban and 
rural health systems at the local and regional levels and provided community health 
education to Dominican and Haitian residents throughout the country during 
summer of 2002. 
               
She earned a B.S. in Human Nutrition/premedical sciences and a Spanish minor at 
Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. In May 2004, she completed her M.S. in 
Health Communication at the Tufts School of Medicine/Emerson College Joint Program 
in Boston, MA. She has received additional training in media literacy, risk communication 
and surge capacity, health policy, and digital field production.