Faculty/Staff Detail

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Community Service/Community Research Projects:

• Building community partnerships to improve environmental health. Partner: Hispanic Multi-Purpose Center, Council of Pastors – Paterson, NJ
• Environmental health literacy. Focus: Low literacy groups - Newark, NJ; Camden, NJ; Northern New Jersey. Partner: Greater Newark Conservancy – Newark, NJ; Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium; Camden County Council on Economic Opportunity, Inc. – Camden County, NJ
• Low literacy cancer cluster communication. Focus: statewide. Partners: Greater Newark Conservancy, Newark, NJ; Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium; Camden County Council on Economic Opportunity, Inc. – Camden County, NJ
• SUC2ES2 - Students Understanding Critical Connections Between the Environment, Society and Self. Partner: Woodbridge School District – Woodbridge, NJ
• Project HOPE Partnership-Focus Group Discussion Guides. Partner: Iselin Middle School – Iselin, NJ; Quibbletown Middle School – Piscataway, NJ; Joseph H. Brensinger School P.S. 17 - Jersey City, NJ; Isles, Inc.- Trenton, NJ; Greater Newark Conservancy - Newark, NJ; First Baptist Church – Somerset, NJ
• Assessing the impact of a new environmental health curriculum on 2^nd and 5^th graders in the Woodbridge School District – Woodbridge, NJ
• Conducted an assessment of the impact of palliative care programs on residents of University Hospital in Newark, NJ (2004)
• Provided training for staff of the Coalition Against Tobacco focusing on creating behavior change theory-based interventions for specific target groups
• Participated twice in the Dominican Republic Health Outreach Project, assisting students with the development of a health education intervention on parasitic control for residents in the bateys – Dominican Republic

Professional Service:

• New Jersey Society of Public Health Educators (SOPHE), Public Health Council liaison. Focus: Public health educators
• Member, New Jersey Society of Public Health Educators Ad Hoc Committee to Review ATSDR Grants
• Member, Statewide and Middlesex County Coalition of the Partnership for Prevention/Peer Review Organization of New Jersey, Inc.
• Abstract reviewer, American Public Health Association. Focus: Public health professionals
• Association of Schools of Public Health Competency Project to Assess CORE MPH Competencies (2004 – 2005)
• Reviewer, American Alliance of Health; Physical Education and Dance: Association of Health Education and the American Public Health Association, Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section

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