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...

Street Teams are student-run, creative collaborations within ComArtSci. Interdisciplinary groups of students partner with nonprofit organizations and assist them with media projects. They have real-world learning opportunities while giving back to th...

Provided an eight-day summer residential camp for 60 high school students from across Michigan interested in medicine and health care-related careers. Strive to recruit a diverse cohort of students each year to increase diversity among medical studen...

Identify organizations for funding. Measure outcomes of funded organizations.

I co-chair the Committee that plans this annual event. We work closely with mid-Michigan Law Enforcement and Fire Fighting Agencies, as well as local community members, and representatives from Lansing Community College and Davenport University. Each...

In addition to delivering the Telehealth 101 mini-course content to participants in the Virtual Table project, through our collaboration with a project at Henry Ford Health System we arranged to deliver Telehealth 101 in two two-hour virtual sessions...

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.

Flint Is Family in Three Acts is a multipart exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan—Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan—as t...

The Greater Flint Coronavirus Taskforce on Racial Inequities is committed to bringing awareness, analysis, and action to the root causes of disparities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in order to ensure racial equity within and across organiza...

Served as an expert contributor to an amicus brief filed with the California Supreme Court. The brief requests that the court grant review of a challenge to the intentional misgendering provision of a California bill (S.B. 219). The brief includes em...

Presented results from scholarship in trans medicine to public audiences, health organizations, clinics, and health professionals.

Collaborated with local school districts to understand the relationship between student academic achievement and well-being and digital inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Provided multiple interviews to various local and national media outlets (television, online, and print) focusing on impacts of legally restricting abortion access; proposed legislation limiting health care to transgender and nonbinary youth and adul...

Formed during the water crisis, this multisector network continues to be tasked with creating trusted recovery communication to Flint residents, especially those who are hard to reach. The group meets biweekly, receiving updates from the City of Flin...

Hosted three regional programs (Detroit, Macomb, Lansing) over the course of eight weeks at varying times of the year to expose high school students to medicine and health care-related careers. The goal is to create a pathway for students from underr...

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...

Organized symposium and webinars on PFAS contamination. Testified at the Department of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Field hearing on interagency collaboration. Also organized an annual retreat and semiregular meetings with the...

Capacity-building for community organizations and local governments to support opioid prevention and treatment efforts.

Partnership with Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan and Michigan Tribes to explore the cultural supports for the development of young children.

Serve as board secretary for the Davies Project, which provides transportation to children and families for medical care. The board works to raise money, increase awareness, and sustain the operation.

Serve on the board of the Children's Palliative Care Coalition, a group of palliative care providers, social workers, nurses, and families working to promote and raise awareness of the need for palliative care services, advocate for legislation to ge...

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...

Organized Cystic Fibrosis Art and Science Event at Wharton, Center where local students and faculty presented their research and exhibits featured the work of Dylan Mortimer, an artist with CF. The goal was to merge art and science in celebration of ...

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

Hands-on activities for Clinton County 8th and 10th graders to learn more about veterinary nursing as a career. Including meeting a dog, discussing career pathways, putting together a skeleton puzzle, and looking at parasites.