Doris Campbell, PhD, ARNP, FAAN
Co-Director and Consultant/Mentor for the Administrative Core
Dr. Campbell has held academic appointments at Florida A & M University, the University of Florida (Gainesville) and the University of South Florida (Tampa), where she was a professor in the Colleges of Nursing and Public Health and Director of Diversity Initiatives for the USF Health Sciences Center-AHEC Program in the College of Medicine. A frequently sought out consultant on diversity initiatives and minority health disparities, Dr. Campbell is nationally recognized for her research and publications on women's and minority health, especially violence and abuse of African American women. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida.
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Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN Co-Director and Consultant/Mentor for the Research Core Dr. Campbell is the Anna D. Wolf Chair and a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Dr. Campbell has been the PI of 10 major NIH, NIJ or CDC research grants, has published more than 150 articles and seven books on violence against women, and is the Mentoring Core Director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at JHU SON. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing, and provides consultation to the World Health Organization. |
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Angela Ford, PhD in Social Work with a certificate in Gerontology, both from the Univ. of Pittsburgh Dr. Ford joined the Center for Minority Health at the Univ. of Pittsburgh in 1996 as the Associate Director. She is the founder of BWHOLE, a Black women's health promotion network, established in 1997. Her public health and practice interests focus on the health, mental health, and aging of African American women, and increasing the contributions of African American women in research activities at all levels. |
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Faye A. Gary, Ed.D. Co-Director and Consultant/Mentor for the Research Education/Training Core Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Gary's area of expertise is nursing for the care of vulnerable and at-risk persons. Her background in nursing, sociology, psychiatric nursing, and special education is quite evident in her publications, concerning runaway and troubled youths, domestic violence, and health issues for minority women. |
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Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D William C. & Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy, Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Co-Director Administrative Core Dr. LaVeist is Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Founding Director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Founding Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions. He is a frequent visiting lecturer on minority health issues at other universities. He is also a frequent speaker at professional conferences and workshops sponsored by leading public health professional associations. Dr. LaVeist consults often with federal agencies and healthcare organizations on minority health and cultural competency issues and racial disparities in health. He has conducted several important studies of minority health. His research on minority health has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Center for Disease Control, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Brookdale Foundation, Commonwealth Fund, Russell Sage Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation. |
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Michael L. Radelet, PhD Purdue Univ. and two years of post-doctoral training in Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School Dr. Radelet is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder. He spent 22 years at the University of Florida, including five years as the Chair of the Department of Sociology (1996-2001). Radelet is a medical sociologist and internationally known for his work on various issues related to capital punishment, particularly racial disparities in death sentencing. Among other things, he studies mental health issues among prisoners and their families, the "recovery" process of families of homicide victims, and ethical issues for health professionals involved in capital punishment decisions. |
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Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, FAAN Co-Director and Consultant/Mentor for the Community Engagement and Training Core Dr. Sharp's professional interests pursue nursing practice and research, and examine the consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Her work focuses on the effects of IPV on the physical and mental health of pregnant women, infants, and very young children in the home. She has a $3.8 M/5 year research grant funded by NINR to test a public health nurse home intervention to reduce effects of IPV among pregnant women and their newborns. |
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Anne Thurland, MPH, CHES MPH, Univ of Texas, School of Public Health, BS in Community Health Education, Montclair State Univ. Consultant/Mentor for the Community Engagement and Training Core Ms. Thurland is a certified health education specialist and a social marketing specialist. She is the Director of the Bureau of Health Education and Project Director of the Diabetes Prevention & Control Program at the Department of Health (DOH), U. S. Virgin Islands where she has worked for the past 28 years. Among her accomplishments in the DOH, she instituted the first Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey (BRFSS) in the USVI; was a major architect of the Diabetes Strategic Plan 2002-20012; and organized the Breast & Cervical Cancer Coalition and the Diabetes Advisory Council. She has also played a role in the collection of population-based data, NIH and CDC funded population studies and has been an author in several peer reviewed articles/publications. She is a Past President of the national organization, the Directors of Health Promotion & Education and was their first minority president and a president from a Territory in the 56 years of this organization and has served . She serves on their workgroups for Minority Health and School Health. Anne is also a Trustee for the Caribbean Regional Committee of the International Union for Health Promotion & Education, North American Region. |
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Eugene S. Tull, Dr.P.H. University of Alabama Consultant/Mentor for the Research Core Dr. Tull developed a Virgin Islands Childhood Diabetes Registry. He is the Rapporteur for Steering Committee of World Health Organization (WHO) Diabetes Mondiale Study of the incidence of Childhood Type 1 diabetes in children in over 50 countries. He is Consultant Epidemiologist for the Virgin Islands Department of Health Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. |
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Sandra Millon Underwood, RN, PhD, FAAN Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee College of Nursing Sandra Millon has held academic appointments at Chicago State University and the University of West Florida A & M University, the University of Florida (Gainesville) and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Over the past fifteen years Dr. Underwood has committed herself to developing strategies and interventions aimed toward improving the access of minority, economically disadvantaged, and medically underserved populations to evidence-based cancer detection and control programs. She was the Founding Director of the House of Peace Community Nursing Center. In this capacity she developed educational and research opportunities for faculty and students within high-risk community settings. Dr. Underwood has been the PI of several NIH, Susan G. Komen Foundation and American Cancer Society grants, has published several scholarly articles related to cancer-related health disparities. Dr. Underwood is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and member of the National Black Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau International, and the Oncology Nursing Society. |
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Hossein N. Yarandi, PhD Consultant/Instructor for grant research processes and data analysis Dr. Yarandi is a professor in the Center for Health Research, College of Nursing at Wayne State University. He teaches research, statistical methods, and design at the doctorate levels; supervises theses and dissertations, and consults with the faculty members about research grants and projects. He is an experienced researcher with expertise in measurement, data analysis, and the interpretation of results. He received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Economics and Statistics from Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. He received his Masters and Doctorate Degrees in Statistics and Econometrics from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His collaborative works have been published in Nursing, Pharmacy and Medical Journals. He has extensive experience in grant writing and has published in the areas of health status, mortality and morbidity research, and methodological issues. |