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title: Donna Castelblanco
date: 2024-07-29T11:39:00-04:00
author: Grace Koch
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[Who We Are](/who-we-are)# Donna Castelblanco

Content Expert, [Mental Health](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/mental-health)  
 Content Expert, [Chronic Conditions](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/chronic-conditions)

![headshot of Donna Castelblanco](data:image/png;base64,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)

Donna Castelblanco (she/her/ella) is a daughter of Colombian-Ecuadorian immigrants. She serves as a program manager at the New York City Department of Health. She supports population health equity initiatives in primary care and the reproductive justice space. Donna is also a trauma-informed yoga teacher.

Prior to joining the NYC Department of Health, Donna coordinated community-based evaluation research at a home visiting program in New Jersey. She also worked at Bellevue Hospital for NYU coordinating clinical research studies on homelessness prevention, substance use, and social determinants of health.

She earned her master of bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and is a doctoral student in the Johns Hopkins Doctor of Public Health, Health Equity and Social Justice program. Donna enjoys running, reading, and building community.

> OBOS is a virtual space to learn, share, grow, and empower our community. Within mental health, I am most interested in perinatal mental health. Within chronic conditions, I am most interested in sharing resources about chronic conditions during the perinatal period (e.g. hypertension and diabetes).

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