Brenda Chamness Biggs, Ms, Mches Email and Phone Number

• Community Engagement: Lead strategic direction and operational performance of system community outreach and engagement team of 9 professional staff. Forge alliances and foster collaborative relationships with key community stakeholders. Partner with clinical leaders to strengthen health equity. Implement community-based programs such as COVID-19 vaccine outreach in underserved populations.• Community Benefit (CB): Partner with Finance and Tax teams to ensure efficient tracking and accurate reporting of $700M system-wide annually. Create annual CB Report aligning goals of community benefit investments. Serve as system CB expert, provide up-to-date knowledge in CB definitions ("what counts"), planning, reporting, evaluation, including state/federal government regulations.• Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA): Lead the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Implementation Strategy process systemwide every 3 years, providing guidance, best practices, and project management. Create customized, evidence based CHNA reports for 16 hospitals.• Community Benefit Grants: Oversees community benefit grants budget of $1.2M, includes funding requests, new project vetting, progress reports and disbursement of funds. Establish metrics to demonstrate efficacy of programs and impact of funding.• Community Health Programs: Implement programs aligned with CHNA priorities and strategies, including program management, data collection, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation. Develops or implements a framework for evaluating health outcomes data to report progress and provide evaluation of community health improvement goals.

• Manages system-wide community health initiatives to ensure alignment with the organization's mission. • Directs community health initiatives to improve health of communities. • Manages statewide relationships, system-wide collaborations and facilitates the sharing of best practices in community health. • Acts as a partner of the organization leadership team and participates in the strategic planning and the attainment of goals for area of responsibility.

Teaching the following courses: • KINS 400 "Assessment of Activity and Health" • MPH 540 "Monitoring and Evaluation for Community Health"• MPH 582 "Special Topics: Research in Public Health"

• Oversight of all aspects of the ACSM American Fitness Index, ActivEarth and Every Body Walk! programs.• Negotiated and managed program implementation with corporate funding partners such as Nike, Kaiser Permanente, and Anthem Foundation. • Translated science to key audiences (consumers, health care providers, and key influencers). • Managed program benchmarks; strategized annual program goals/objectives; and forecasted and managed the yearly budget with cost-efficiency.• Accomplished program outcomes with external stakeholders such as published journal articles, educational materials, social media campaigns, and communications plans.

• Strategized and built new signature ACSM national program highlighting the evidence- and science-based measurement of the state of health and fitness in United States cities.• Built initial $200K grant to secure more than $1 million programmatic funding since 2008. • Identify, recruit, and assign advisory board candidates comprised of researchers and physicians to help develop the measures and data gathering techniques. • Communicate and negotiate program needs with potential funders; state and federal decision makers; and advisory board members.

• Negotiated complicated funding structure from federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the Indiana State Department of Health to Ball State University. • Secure and manage $1.3 million operating budget annually. Serve as an expert in tobacco control.• Hire, develop, supervise, and evaluate six professional staff members through coaching, performance assessments, and team building.• Forecast annual goals and objectives; implement 5-year strategic planning process; evaluate for quality control; and attain federal performance measures. • Negotiated contract and launched first statewide tobacco cessation quitline for the state of Indiana in March 2006.

• Served as supervisor for staff in the absence of the director. Monitored staff performance. Advanced continuing education by creating individual work plans for staff to attain goals and improve skills.• Assisted in planning, implementing, and evaluation of Indiana’s tobacco prevention and control program.• Compiled semiannual federal reports. • Administered the initial Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey with the CDC in 2000: survey development, school recruitment, and data collection.