Annie Rosemurgy

Biography

Annie is a medical anthropologist who has doctoral level training in public health and anthropology field research and qualitative data collection and analysis. She has worked in academic settings and as a journalist. She currently works in a collaborative position on the Workforce Development Pathways team and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) section of the Commercial Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program. Here, she focuses on providing training and technical assistance to tobacco movement partners throughout the state, building capacity for leveraging transformative narratives in the field. On the Workforce Development Pathways Unit Annie leads the creation and implementation of narrative curriculum for the PHIG (Public Health Infrastructure Grant) grant and consults with programs across the University and DHS to support narrative capacity. She is a strong believer that health should be community led; she sees her work as facilitation toward community-driven narrative change from within.