As a trained Public Health Practitioner, Dr. Alexander is driven by a desire to serve others and create sustainable health changes in communities. She has more than 16 years of experience in designing, implementing, evaluating, translating, and disseminating evidence-based interventions utilizing community-based participatory principles, culturally responsive and equitable methodologies, and theoretical frameworks. She is a subject matter expert in cancer, diabetes, HIV, commercial tobacco, food insecurity, and obesity. Her work and service portfolio has focused on applying a mixed methods inquiry that examines the impact of interpersonal, community, and societal influences on the preventative behaviors and self-management of health conditions. Dr. Alexander has provided scientific and technical guidance on social marketing, health communications, community engagement and mobilization, policy and program evaluation, and capacity building within different sectors of public health at the international, national, state, and local levels. Consequently, she has received various awards in collaboration with health psychologists, sociologists, and pharmacists. She has authored and/or co-authored 41 peer-reviewed articles and presented at 50 national and international conferences.She earned her Doctor of Public Health in Community Health Behavior and Education from Georgia Southern University and her bachelor and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Subsequently, she completed postdoctoral fellowships at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Dr. Alexander is a current member of the American Evaluation Association, American Diabetes Association, and Charlotte Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, dancing, traveling, spending quality time with her loved ones, and coaching 3rd-5th graders in the Girls on the Run Charlotte program.
Listed skills include Public Health, Program Evaluation, Community Outreach, Research, and 28 others.