Paul Braff received his Ph.D. from Temple University in 2020 and teaches classes on U.S. History, African American History, and U.S. Government for Northeastern University and Julia R. Masterman High School. His major areas of research include urban history, African American History, and the history of public health. Based on that research, he published an article on a public health campaign organized and led by African Americans in the early to mid-20th century in the American Journal of Public Health. His work has also been published in the academic journals Perspectives on History and Strategic Visions and he was selected to give the Iago Gladstone Lecture in the History of Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine in March 2018. He was a Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Currently, Paul is revising his dissertation on National Negro Health Week to develop it into a book. His work examines how a population overlooked by the medical establishment took control of its own health needs.