Alicia Justice
40 Under 40 Class of 2023
Hagerstown, Maryland
Senior Director, Programmatic Health Equity Initiatives and Strategy
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
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One of the ways I give back to the community is by pouring into the field and reinforcing my lived experience so that others can put a face to the conditions that we talk about in public health.
Three words to describe me:
empathetic, strategic, joyous
The best part of my job:
The ability to integrate mentorship within my leadership style to help my staff realize their full potential and feel seen
Something that would surprise others about me:
I organized several years' worth of journal entries into a book that I'm considering publishing as a memoir one day.
Alicia Justice is a health equity strategist and organizational justice scholar advocating for psychologically safe environments where everyone can thrive. Alicia hails from the Southern Gulf Coast of Mississippi, where she witnessed firsthand structural and environmental inequities driven by systems and ideologies of oppression. Her lived experience informs how she contributes to public health work. In her role as Senior Director of Programmatic Health Equity Initiatives and Strategy at ASTHO, she leads national initiatives with state public health agencies, implementing a trauma-informed policy and program development strategy to address health inequities across the populations they serve and building an internal culture of equity.
Alicia is a fourth-year Doctor of Public Health candidate in the health equity and social justice concentration at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds an MPH from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and a BA from the University of Oklahoma.
