[Virtual] Changes Documentary

Producer Helena Jeudin, Penn MPH alum, presents a short film on elevating community voices and redefining environmental health priorities.

Producer Helena Jeudin who is an emerging public health leader and budding filmmaker who believes in the power of multimedia storytelling to advance public health awareness, policy, and action. This short documentary spotlights the neighborhood of Frankford Philadelphia. The film seeks to uplift diverse perspectives and reframe how we identify and define environmental health priorities — centering community voices and advocating for equitable, neighborhood-driven change. Helena Jeudin grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and is an alum of the University of Pennsylvania MPH program. Helena currently is a research coordinator in the Center for Health Justice where she works on the IGNITE study, facilitating initiatives that address social determinants of health and wellbeing among Philadelphia’s most vulnerable communities. As a Haitian immigrant and nearly lifelong Philadelphia resident, Helena has keen interests in both global and local health outcomes.Helena is an emerging public health leader and budding filmmaker who believes in the power of multimedia storytelling to advance public health awareness, policy, and action. Helena’s past work includes several years as a behavioral health case manager where she helped individuals with substance use and co-occurring disorders navigate healthcare and social service systems, access treatment, and achieve their holistic recovery goals. Helena joined the Penn community in 2021 to support the Penn Go Vax team’s community outreach efforts, increasing COVID vaccine uptake and addressing vaccine hesitancy in underserved, predominantly Black and brown, communities of Philadelphia. Helena’s public health interests include intimate partner violence, maternal health, migrant health, behavioral health, gun violence, trauma informed care, and – more broadly – the impacts of health disparities and structural racism on vulnerable communities. Her current academic projects include evaluating a local migrant mental health program and a capstone study on the perceptions of behavior change among men who use violence in their intimate relationships with the goal of furthering our understanding of how to best engage this population towards change. Helena received a B.S. in Biology and a certificate in Health Studies from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.