Armine Kourouyan

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD, HEALTH & SOCIETY

Armine Kourouyan joined Hollywood, Health & Society from the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, where she designed, managed and evaluated full-scale disaster preparedness exercises for federal, state and local public health agencies. She trained county health departments and hospitals on earthquake response through the Joint Information Center (JIC) and effective press and media outreach in the event of an emergency or disaster. Prior to that, Armine worked at the Media Project, a partnership of Advocates for Youth and the Kaiser Family Foundation that addressed portrayals of sexual and reproductive health among adolescents in the media. She interned at the San Francisco County Jail, where she worked with inmates on their cases, instructed classes, and facilitated a female support group on issues of drug abuse and loss of family and children. Armine holds a master of public health (MPH) from UCLA and a BA in English from UC Berkeley.