Grace Kyei – Rappaport

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2025

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School: University of Massachusetts Boston School of Nursing

Fellowship: Boston Public Health Commission

Project Description: Grace Kyei worked at the Child, Adolescent, and Family Health Bureau, Boston Public Health Commission in Summer 2025 as a Rappaport Public Policy Fellow. Her work focused on three core projects: developing and evaluating 24 maternal and child health innovation ideas grounded in the socio-ecological model; conducting a landscape scan of MCH program structures in major U.S. cities; and leading a multilingual environmental health survey in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood. Her contributions produced policy recommendations to enhance equity, sustainability, and community responsiveness in MCH programming.