Community Advisory Board - Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Community engagement is at the core of public health research and practice. To address the health needs of communities, it is critical to engage interest holders, including intended beneficiaries, in identifying needs and assets as well as planning, implementing and evaluating public health solutions. Communities can be engaged across a continuum of involvement. HPDP encourages and facilitates engagement with communities in program or policy development and the research process.

The HPDP Community Advisory Board includes the following members:

Gideon Adams
Vice President of Community Health and Engagement
Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina

Travis Battle
State Manager
The Balm In Gilead, Inc

Amy Belflower-Thomas
Assistant Director for Research and Evaluation
N.C. Institute for Public Health

Dorothea Brock
Rural Health Operations Program Manager
NC Office of Rural Health

Jessica Dorrance
Research Consultant
Community Representative

Laura Edwards
CEO
Collaborative Health Solutions

Carolyn Fryberger
Assistant Director of Economic Development, NCGrowth
Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Lisa Harrison
Health Director
Granville-Vance Public Health

Danielle Hiraldo
Director, UNC American Indian Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Melvin Jackson
Principal Partner
PRIME COLLECTIVE

Reverend William Kearney
CEO, Warren County Environmental Action Team
Field Coordinator
Food, Fitness and Opportunity Research Collaborative
UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Shaune Lancit
Director of Community Engagement
WellCare of North Carolina

Sue Liverman
Diabetes Educator
Rural Health Group

Kim McDonald
Chief, Chronic Disease and Injury
NC Division of Public Health
NC Department of Health and Human Services

Pilar Rocha-Goldberg
President & CEO
El Centro Hispano, Inc.

Tish Singletary
Branch Head
Community and Clinical Connections for Prevention and Health Branch
N.C. Division of Public Health

Karen Stanley
Program Manager, Healthy Communities
N.C. Division of Public Health

Sussie Sutton
CEO
Sutton Development Corp., Inc.