This community-partnered study will scale a community, provider, and system-level implementation intervention to reduce African American maternal morbidity and mortality disparities in two Michigan counties (Genesee and Kent). We will test the interv...

The SPIRIT Trial is a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and mechanisms of the Safety Plan intervention in reducing suicide events among 800 individuals in the year after jail release.

Conducted effective outreach and engagement strategies in light of COVID-19 by working in conjunction with partnering agencies. Distribution of Flint Registry handouts and materials by partnering and collaborating with community partners as they se...

The Flint Registry is a project designed to support individuals who were impacted by an environmental injustice and exposed to a lead in water crisis. The project connects individuals who were exposed to services and resources to mitigate the impact ...

I am the Evaluator on a large SAMHSA funded grant designed to expand access to medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in the northwest region of Michigan's lower peninsula.

This project was designed to evaluate feasibility and effects of meal delivery after hospital discharge on hospital readmission and patient satisfaction and quality of life.

I was the project evaluator on a service (not research grant), evaluating a program that expanded treatment options for people with opioid use disorder.

Advisory board member for a community group involved in several important issues. I serve because of my expertise in nutrition programming. https://www.groundworkcenter.org/

I coordinate and facilitate semi-monthly meetings of the Michigan Association of Preventive Medicine and Public Health Physicians (MAPPP), a professional association of physicians working in Michigan's local and state health departments. These meetin...

CPCC - Caring for Patients with Chronic Conditions - is a educational innovation and outreach project funded 0.5 M by MHEF - Michigan Health Endowment Fund. Trying to tie up GME with outpatient primary care in community for elderly.

To track workplace injuries and illnesses. Educate health care practioners to recognize work-related conditions Develop and disseminate educational material to prevent work-related conditions

Working with a committee to investigate the workforce development needs of public health workers in Michigan.

Serve as project consultant for NWCHIR, a partnership of health and community providers that serve the health needs of individuals across 10 counties in northwest Michigan: Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manist...

Continued development and implementation of MSU’s Grand Rapids Innovation Park, which is focused on health care innovation and includes a startup incubator managed by the MSU Research Foundation/Spartan Innovations. Work included recruitment of ten...

Conduct participatory research including scenario workshops, interviews, and planning. Co-create products based on research results for community audiences, attend community events, create tools for community use.

Stepping Up is a national initiative administered by the National Association of Counties, the Council of State Governments Justice Center and the American Psychiatric Foundation to reduce the number of people with serious mental illness in jails. (s...

Identify organizations for funding. Measure outcomes of funded organizations.

Treasurer and board member of the Lansing Latino Health Alliance, a nonprofit with a mission to reduce health disparities and improve the health status of Latinos in the Greater Lansing area.

The Sugar Smart Coalition is committed to advocacy, education, equitable practice, and policy that improves healthy food and beverage options and choice. The coalition's vision is to reduce added sugar consumption and its negative health impacts in M...

The Flint Registry is designed to connect individuals impacted by the Flint water crisis to services and programs that mitigate the impact of lead exposure on health and child development. The Flint Registry has enrolled over 21,000 individuals and m...

Conducted monthly meetings, supported scholarship through lectures, discussion, education, and workshops on integrative medicine in cancer rehabilitation.

Presented community health lecture regarding women's health care issues and taught outdoor emergency care and ski patrol.

This is a National Institutes of Health funded R01 randomized trial comparing two counseling interventions for depression and PTSD following miscarriage, stillbirth, and death of a newborn. The program offers free counseling to women anywhere in Mich...

Served on a COVID mortality review board, which was comprised of members from MSU, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, and health care providers and community members across Michigan. Reviewed mortality reports and made recommendati...

Open invitation Zoom presentation offered on May 2, 2023.