Janine Janosky PhD, serves as Vice President and Senior Fellow for the Center for Community Health Improvement at the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron, Ohio (ABIA). The Institute’s...
Champions of Change: Prevention And Public Health
The White House honors eight leaders helping communities focus on prevention and public health by tackling everything from childhood obesity, reducing health disparities, fighting healthcare acquired infections, to taking various innovative steps to move us towards a healthier America – based on wellness and prevention, rather than sickness and disease.
Erica Washington is the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Coordinator for the State of Louisiana. As the HAI Coordinator, Ms. Washington works with acute care hospitals, long-term acute care...
Andrea Hays, MPH, is the Director of the movement Initiative and the Upgrade campaign at the Welborn Baptist Foundation in Evansville, Indiana. The overall goal of the move∙ment Initiative is to...
Dr. Kainer is an infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist. She is the Director of the Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program at the Tennessee Department of...
Natalie Pawlenko is the Director of the Office of Local Public Health for the New Jersey Department of Health where she is leading a statewide effort to streamline and coordinate public health...
Myriam Escobar is a Community Outreach Worker at Moffitt Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. Ms. Escobar delivers a program in the Tampa Bay area in Florida,...
Ira Combs RN serves as Community Liaison Nurse Coordinator at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, working with the Center for Reducing Health Disparities. Mr. Combs’ work emphasizes...
Elmer Huerta MD is the Director of the Cancer Preventorium at, MedStar Washington Hospital Center’s Washington Cancer Institute in Washington, DC. Noticing that his patients with advanced cancer...