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Lena R. Hann

Lena R. Hann

PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Public Health

Augustana College

Lena R. Hann, PhD, MPH, is an associate professor of Public Health at Augustana College, with affiliations in the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Scandinavian Studies programs. A former clinic worker and public health practitioner, Lena weaves real-life health scenarios into her experiential learning courses and has mentored over 250 community-based student capstone projects.

Published Articles

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Where Disruption and Vocation Meet: One Path Toward Teaching Reproductive Justice in Challenging Times

Lena R. Hann

No. 57 · Spring 2023

Hann recounts how a missed math class in her first college term led her into volunteer work at a feminist abortion clinic and ultimately a career in public health, and describes how she designed and taught a Reproductive Justice immersive term course at Augustana College through the disruptions of COVID-19, George Floyd’s murder, and the Dobbs decision.
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Finding Purpose in Chaos: Reflection In and Beyond the Public Health Classroom

Lena R. Hann

No. 52 · Fall 2020

When the pandemic hit her new public health professionalism course, Hann recalibrated her teaching from the “how” of professional preparation to the “why” of vocational reflection — and recounts how Augustana public health students and alumni found purpose in the chaos through food banks, disaster response, palliative care, and research on health inequities.

Lena R. Hann

Published Articles

Where Disruption and Vocation Meet: One Path Toward Teaching Reproductive Justice in Challenging Times

Finding Purpose in Chaos: Reflection In and Beyond the Public Health Classroom