Catherine Haggerty, PhD, MPH, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health  

Dr. Catherine Haggerty is the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Pitt SPH where she is a Professor of Epidemiology (with tenure), Vice Chair for Practice, and Director of the Applied Public Health Area of Emphasis in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Haggerty has 20 years of experience in research, teaching, mentorship, team and capacity building, grants management, and public health practice focused on reproductive, perinatal and pediatric (RPP) and infectious disease epidemiology. Dr. Haggerty has been PI on numerous NIH and CDC funded studies and has built a robust multidisciplinary research program blending RPP and infectious disease epidemiology, and global health. She leads an early career faculty mentoring program in SPH and has significant experience as a training grant faculty member, through service as Co-PI of a D43 Fogarty International Training Grant, Co-Director of the Pitt Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology T32, Steering Committee Member of the Women’s Reproductive Health Research Career Development Program at Magee-Womens Research Institute, and mentor of early career faculty, predoctoral fellows, master’s students, postdoctoral fellows, and medical fellows.  

Ngozi Tibbs, MPH, IBCLC CEO, Journey Lighter 

Ms. Ngozi D. Tibbs is an Early Child Mental Health Consultant with the Pennsylvania Key which provides education and support to families in the social emotional skills that children need to thrive in the early childhood setting. Additionally, Ms. Tibbs holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Maternal Child Health and a Masters Degree in Public Health, is a Certified Childbirth Trainer and Educator through Lamaze International (LCCE), an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and the Co-Founder of The Pittsburgh Black Breastfeeding Circle (PBBC) where she works with a team of lactation professionals and parents to ensure black families have the education and support to reach their breastfeeding goals. She has served as both a private and community-based doula and currently provides childbirth education and lactation consulting services, including the development of a course to increase the number of Black IBCLCs. Ms. Tibbs also has expertise and training in helping organizations develop an anti-racism, trauma informed lens that also addresses discrimination against larger bodies.