Henrie M. Treadwell, Ph.D., director, Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved
 Dr. Treadwell is Senior Social Scientist and Associate Director of Development in the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine. Her major responsibilities include program oversight and management for Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved, a special informing policy initiative that is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She also has oversight of the men’s health programs that were funded as a special cluster by the Kellogg Foundation but that are managed by the National Center for Primary Care. Her special work includes development of strategies to inform policy, working to address health disparities among underserved populations, and dissemination of various media products to inform the public and communities of health related issues. Prior to joining the National Center for Primary Care, Dr. Treadwell served for 16 years as program director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan.
Dr. Treadwell’s educational background includes the bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of South Carolina, a master’s degree in Biology from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Atlanta University. She has also completed postdoctoral work at the Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Treadwell is a member of the Editorial Board for the American Journal of Public Health and the International Journal of Men’s Health and Gender; she also serves on the external advisory committee for the MPH program at Morehouse School of Medicine and is a recent inductee into the Leadership Atlanta Fellowship Class of 2006. She also serves as board member of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, the Georgia Council for International Visitors, and the High Museum of Art. Additionally, she serves as a member of several professional organizations including and the American Public Health Association, Academy Health, Women in Philanthropy, and Sigma Xi. Dr. Treadwell is also a member of several organizations dedicated to community services including Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. and The Links, Inc. |
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Melany Mack, MSW
 Melany serves as manager for Planning and Special Services at the Ingham County Health Department in Lansing, Michigan. She also is Project Coordinator for the Ingham County Community Voices Initiative, serves as liaison with a number of community-based organizations using teams of community health workers in grassroots health outreach activities, and provides administrative oversight for outreach contracts. Melany supervises enforcement of the Ingham County Tobacco Licensing Regulation and oversees the Community Health Assessment and Improvement units, among other things. She completed an MSW at Michigan State University and is intensely interested in issues of community, health, and social justice. |
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Dr. Liz Whitley
 Dr. Liz Whitley is Director of Community Voices at Denver Health, the public healthcare safety net for Denver, Colorado. Community Voices encompasses a number of community based, predominantly grant funded programs aimed at increasing access to healthcare for the underserved and influencing public policy.
Dr. Whitley is also Co-PI for the NCI funded patient navigation research program to determine the efficacy of patient navigators on decreasing time to diagnosis and treatment for cancer patients. She is also conducting research on the return on investment of Community Health Workers.
Prior to joining Denver Health, Dr. Whitley served as Executive Director and Senior Consultant at the Rocky Mountain Center for Healthcare Ethics. While at the Center, she was a teacher, author and speaker in the areas of clinical and corporate ethics and led a two-year collaborative project to create and publish the Colorado Code of Ethics for Healthcare. Before that, Dr. Whitley was Service Line Administrator for Women’s and Children’s Services at Lutheran Medical Center.
Dr. Whitley earned her doctorate from the University of Colorado, her undergraduate degree in Nursing from Indiana University and she is a certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. |
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