Brooke Offenhauser, BA
Public Health Student
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Brooke (she/her) is a second-year Community Health Promotion MPH student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul in 2021 with degrees in neuroscience and psychology. At Macalester, she worked as a health promotion peer educator and completed health psychology research. In the future, she hopes to work as a health promotion specialist on a college campus, working with students who are peer educators. Currently, she is the student worker for the Child and Teen Checkups program at the Minnesota Department of Health. At the University of Minnesota, she is an ambassador for the School of Public Health, the co-president of the Interprofessional Student Garden, a violence prevention educator with the Aurora Center, a copy editor for the Public Health Review Journal, and plays her clarinet in a campus band.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

The University of Minnesota health interprofessional well-being initiative, BeWELL, conducted a survey in 2020 to gauge interest in initiatives and programming and found that gardening was in the top three preferences expressed by health professional students. As no garden existed on the east bank campus, BeWELL, in conjunction with the Center for Health Interprofessional Programs (CHIP), established an interprofessional student-led garden. The garden aims to provide an outlet for health professional students, promoting wellness and organic relationships across disciplines. In pursuit of…