Quirina Vallejos (MPH ’03 UNCG)

Posted on February 03, 2019

Quirina Vallejos

Public Health Education
Ms. Vallejos earned her Master in Public Health in Community Health Education from UNCG in 2003. She is currently the Project Director for the Administrative Core Center for Regulatory Research on Tobacco Communication at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC Chapel Hill.

She is a leading scholar and advocate for Farmworker health and Latino families in North Carolina and the nation. She is also the President of the North Carolina Farmworkers Project’s Board of Directors and has served for several years on the Farmworker Advocacy Network.

She is an outstanding example of a public health scholar-practitioner, working with communities to implement needed research and interventions.