The Role and Potential of Communities in Population Health Improvement Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 65-72
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She also worked for the Ingham County Health Department, where she was the first AIDS educator and the adolescent health coordinator. In the latter role, she developed and coordinated programs to reduce rates of adolescent pregnancy, and she implemented adolescent health care services and prevention programs.
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Dr. Flores previously managed grant making to develop models of health-supportive policies and community environments, including Healthy Eating Active Communities and the Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program, two nationally prominent multisite, multisector programs to prevent childhood obesity which provided key lessons for the development of the endowment's Building Healthy Communities strategy.
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As president and chief executive officer of Community Coalition, Harris-Dawson has been deeply involved and committed to the organization's mission, working arduously to improve the social and economic conditions in South Los Angeles that lead to crime, violence, substance abuse and poverty. Harris-Dawson came to the helm of Community Coalition in 2004 following years as a community organizer, leader, and director, leading some of the organization's first major education justice victories.
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Along with a host of board and committee posts, Harris-Dawson has been recognized with several community commendations, recognitions, and awards, including the coveted Do Something "BRICK" Award and Liberty Hill Foundation's Upton Sinclair Award. Harris-Dawson was recently honored with The California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program Award.
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Ms. Marshall made the move to New Orleans from Boston, Massachusetts, where she gained experience in clinical therapy, community organizing, youth work, higher education, parent organizing, and education justice initiatives.
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from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has received fellowships from the Danforth, Guggenheim, and Kellogg foundations and grants from the Irvine Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Wellness Foundation, and many others. In recent years his research has focused on the economic, environmental, and social conditions facing low-income urban communities in the United States, which has resulted in articles published in Economic Development Quarterly, Review of Regional Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, Urban Geography, and elsewhere.
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Her particular interests include neighborhood development, positive youth development, and prevention, including prevention of substance abuse and violence prevention.
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Dr. Willems Van Dijk has served on numerous community boards, including the Aspirus Wausau Hospital Board of Directors, the Wausau School District Board of Education, the Wausau Child Care Board of Directors, the Marathon County United Way's Local Initiatives for Excellence committee, and the Wausau/Marathon County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Wausau program.
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