Mitch Bloom

Mitch Bloom graduated from NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences in 2008 with a B.A. in philosophy, French and nutrition. He promptly left to serve in the Peace Corps, working on a community health project in Togo, West Africa. At Gallatin, he is studying obesity education and nonprofit management. “Nonprofits provide services to the public for which I firmly believe that market and government are not equipped,” says Bloom. He has interned with the organization FoodFight NYC (foodfight.org), which is dedicated to changing the way teenagers think about food and giving them the tools to take responsibility for their eating and buying habits and for their own health. The internship, says Bloom, “has been instrumental in my professional development and in the application of what I'm learning in class.” Food as it relates to public health, observes Bloom, is a quintessential interdisciplinary topic. He is studying management at Gallatin in addition to public health, politics, psychology and sociology and education because, he notes, “Understanding the determinants of health disparities is not the same as knowing how to manage an operation that addresses them.”