St Paul, Minnesota, United States
Engaging stakeholders to improve health outcomes for mothers, infants, children and elders around the globe. Contact me at: 1-612-232-6654 or via email at: [email protected], so we can collaborate! SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & EXPERTISE: - COVID-19 Pandemic response testing and vaccination site management; planning and evaluation of CARES Act programs for improvement of social determinants of public health, utilizing social vulnerability indices (SVI), large data, and geo-mapping - Qualitative & quantitative research methodologies - HIV/AIDS & infectious disease medicine research - Maternal and child health issues, randomized controlled trials, community-based participatory action research (CBPR), disease prevention, nutrition improvement program implementation - Health promotion/disease prevention education, social marketing campaigns, research, program evaluation - Knowledge of NUD*IST, Atlas, SAS/SPSS, EPI Info, STATA, dBase, Word Perfect, Tableau, Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, Otter.ai, ConstantContact, and the Microsoft Suite for Windows software programs - Public health research, administration, strategic planning, conflict management, community development, capacity-building
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• Responding to Tribal public health requests and needs around the 3-state region. • Coordinating public health infrastructure re-build for 34 federally recognized Tribes. • Co-leading Tribal Epidemiology Center Public Health Infrastructure (TECPHI), Tribal Overdose prevention, and Tribal Maternal Mortality reduction grants (CDC).
· Staffed, led, and provided support for six committees, including the Council for HIV/AIDS care & chronic disease prevention, Ryan White grant programming, and MN Department of Preventive Services; priority focus on those with disabilities.
· Staffed, led, and provided support for six committees, including the Council for HIV/AIDS care & chronic disease prevention, Ryan White grant programming, and MN Department of Preventive Services; priority focus on those with disabilities.
Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the course redesign of PUBH 8050 "Global Health: Issues in Disease Prevention" Teach and mentor public health Master's and Doctoral level courses in an online, graduate university. Also, I serve as a Residency Faculty Member, and committee chair and member for doctoral student dissertation committees, specializing in students from the 'Global South', particularly those from sub-Saharan African counties. Successfully mentored more than 100 post-graduate public health students in accredited MPH, PhD, DrPH, and DHA degree programs. Also participate in the alignment process of courses, ensuring that the course objectives align with the core competencies for accreditation with the Council of Education for Public Health (CEPH) for Walden University, and the University of Saint Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota.
I have enjoyed serving on Faculty for WU Master's students, and then as a University Research Reviewer (URR), Member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), Co-Principal Investigator (CO-PI), Committee Member (CM), and/or Mentor/Advisor/Committee Chair to WU doctoral students (PhD, DrPH, DPA, DBA) doctoral thesis projects from formulation of the research Q(s) and hypothesis through co-authorization publication(s) for top-tier journals (NEJM, AJPH, Lancet, SSM-Population, etc) of findings of their original research.