SOPHE-DNPAO Writing Workshop 2023: Session 4

Danielle (Dani) R. Brittain, PhD, is a Professor and Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs in the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Her research concerns the: (a) identification of social-psychological factors impacting adherence to physical activity among marginalized populations of women (i.e., adult lesbians; women with non-cancer chronic pain) and (b) development of theoretically-driven interventions targeting social and behavior change processes that aid in the self-management and maintenance of physical activity. Dr. Brittain is actively involved in the Society for Public Health Education and is an Associate Editor for Practice Notes in Health Promotion Practice. In her spare time, she enjoys being outside, being active, and playing with her dog Harper.

Founding editor Health Promotion Practice and President, Public Health Systems Consultants 

Randy is a nationally recognized public health professional with over thirty-five years’ experience in implementing health promotion/disease prevention initiatives in state health departments and voluntary health organizations with an emphasis on chronic disease prevention and control, cancer control, tobacco control, community-based health promotion, and healthy public policy. He is currently President of Public Health Systems Consultants and serves as the Sr. Public Health Consultant for Cancer Control with the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD). He is an Adjunct Faculty member for several leading academic public health programs. Randy has written and presented on the importance of engaging public health practitioners along with researchers and engaged communities as a key factor in advancing implementation science. 

He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on health promotion and chronic disease prevention. Randy is the Founding Editor of the journal, Health Promotion Practice, a journal of the Society for Public Health Education. He has been awarded the Society for Public Health Education’s Distinguished Fellow Award, the Society’s highest honor. 

Dr. Roe has been a professor of public health and community health education at San Jose State University for over 29 years, where she served as chair for the Health Science and Recreation Department from 2001-2013. She brings more than two decades of scholarship and editorial experience, including as founding associate editor for HPP’s “Circle of Research and Practice” Department; co-editor of HPP’s first supplement devoted to health disparities in 2002; and editorial board member of SOPHE’s Pedagogy in Health Promotion Journal.

Cole Youngner is a Technical Editor & Writer supporting the Program Development & Evaluation Branch at DNPAO and its grant recipients. Tapping into his academic days as a peer writing tutor, he works with DNPAO recipients on writing success stories and publications to disseminate public health practice wisdom to different audiences. His public health interests include socio-contextual determinants of health, global health, qualitative methods, mental health promotion, and injury and violence prevention. After a decade at Emory University as a student and employee, he continued his public health journey in different capacities with CDC from injury and violence prevention, health communications & writing, global health, to antibiotic resistance, and now, nutrition and physical activity promotion. In another life, he was also an award-winning bartender and spirits expert with a passion for sustainability in the food and beverage industries.

Mrs. Hackett is the Project Director for the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Program federal cooperative agreement, a nationwide community-based program to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in cooperation with the CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO). She has over 40 years of experience of public experience with 27 years in Chronic Disease and Health Promotion program development and implementation including nutrition, cardiovascular disease prevention, gerontology, injury prevention, women’s health, HIV/AIDS awareness, health education, physical activity and program integration. Ten (10) years in maternal and child health. Work has included over 30 years’ experience working in State and local health departments and  10 years’ experience working in non-profit sector three of which was as an Executive Director. Her experience is extensive in the areas of Policy, Environment, and Systems (PES) Change; providing technical assistance and capacity building; planning, organizing and directing programs; development, implementation and monitoring of federal categorical grants and community-based grants; and, fiscal management including budget preparations, and resource allocation. 

Mrs. Hackett has a Master of Science Degree (SM) in Public Health Nutrition from the Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA) and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pre-Medicine from Bennett College (Greensboro, NC). She is a Certified Public Manager (CPM) (Rutgers, The State University in New Brunswick, NJ), and a Certified Master Trainer in Chronic Disease Self-Management (As instructed by Stanford University Patient Education Research Center. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Ministry Degree from Payne Theological Seminary. 

René Lavinghouze has over 32 years in designing, conducting, and managing evaluations focusing on prevention programs and is currently the Translation Team Lead in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at CDC.  Her focus is on the study of program infrastructure as the foundation that supports program capacity, implementation, and sustainability.  She is lead author of the Component Model of Infrastructure (CMI), a practical, systems-approach model that supports program implementation and enables outcome measurement, links infrastructure to capacity, and facilitates the likelihood of sustainable public health achievements.  She was the evaluation lead in the Office on Smoking and Health at CDC for 6 years and has worked in the Division of Oral Health and in HIV/AIDS prevention at CDC.  Prior to coming to CDC, she worked at a private evaluation and organizational service firm for over 7 years and has worked in academic and local health department settings.  She received her Master’s in Community Psychology from Georgia State University and a Master’s in Interactive Technology from The University of Alabama.

Joseph Lee is originally from Madison County, NC. He attended Duke University for an undergraduate degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies. He has an MPH in maternal and child health and a PhD in health behavior from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Joseph is now an associate professor in the Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, where he conducts research on tobacco prevention and control and LGBT health inequities.