Catherine Freeland is the Associate Director of Public Health Research at the Hepatitis B Foundation. Catherine received her Ph.D. at Thomas Jefferson University, College of Population Health with a concentration in Health Behavior Science and a dissertation on addressing low hepatitis B birth dose uptake in Nigeria. She has been part of the Hepatitis B Foundation’s storytelling campaign since its inception in 2017 and has assisted in coordinating each workshop since. She also worked internationally to help establish the Foundation’s Be the Voice International Storytelling program and has collected stories from Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana. Being part of the storytelling initiative is one of her favorite aspects of working at the Hepatitis B Foundation. She believes that the storytelling program is so important as it brings awareness and personal connections to hepatitis B.