Izzy Litwack, Mph Email & Phone Number

• As a Senior Policy Analyst with the Dental Access Project, I contribute to the creation of policy resources to translate information to health advocates, providers, and policymakers. I support issues related to health.
• Writes comment letters, issue briefs, fact sheets, blogs, and reports on pertinent health policy topics
• Works as part of a team to offer technical assistance to state consumer health advocates and grassroots partners
• Tracks and analyzes legislation and regulations, and provides strategic political advice to consumer advocates at the state and local level
• Builds and maintains relationships with state health advocates and provides them with policy research, analysis support, and strategic guidance
• Develops expertise in key policy areas (e.g., oral health, comprehensive coverage, improved health outcomes and access to affordable care, and establishing a more community-driven and representative health workforce)

• Assists local partners to implement strategies and campaigns with a special focus on coalition development and management, grassroots advocacy strategy, and campaign building
• Works closely with other Community Catalyst teams, working with state and local advocates to identify shared organizations and or advocacy themes to promote community and power building
• Partners with grassroots organizations to advocate for change through coaching, facilitation, peer-to-peer learning, and knowledge exchange opportunities
• Leads formal or informal teams or committees, coaches staff, conducts public speaking, leads workshops and conference calls, and develops tools that support transformational practices around health equity
• Assists with new and existing program design, proposal development, planning, evaluation, and reporting
• Builds intentional collaboration with other staff to maintain up-to-date knowledge of local, state, and federal policy initiatives and advocacy strategies

• Technical Assistance Provider with Community Solutions for Health Equity, a program of Community Catalyst with funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This grant project seeks to make local health care.
• Offers timely, efficient, and tailored coaching to 11 grantee organizations across the country
• Facilitates and promotes cross-community and cross-state knowledge exchange between consumer advocates
• Manages relationships with community-based partner organizations from a variety of states interested in identifying and carrying out their project goals
• Elevates community health as a health, equity, and social justice issue
• Provides administrative support, including updating databases and coordinating meetings

• Empower Missouri works to secure basic human needs and equal justice for every person in our state through coalition-building and advocacy.
• Ensuring operational alignment to the mission and vision of the organization
• Selecting and evaluating the performance of the Executive Director
• Supporting strategic and organizational planning
• Ensuring strong fiduciary oversight and financial management
• Fundraising and resource development

Greater St. Louis

• Recruited new volunteers through virtual activities and mobilized supporters to participate in advocacy tactics
• Partnered with staff organizers to identify and build leadership capacity among active volunteers
• Lead phone and text banking events using VAN, ThruTalk, and Spoke, training 15-20 new users at each event
• Conducted virtual educational presentations on health care issues

• Conducted literature reviews and prepared technical summaries on articles and webinars spanning topics such as: substance use disorders, child welfare, maternal and child health, mental health, trauma, and systems.
• Synthesized county-level child welfare data to create regional and state-wide profiles
• Supported training and technical assistance delivery through the development of webinar content, PowerPoint presentations, and conference proposals
• Provided technical documentation and copy editing for contract meetings and reporting requirements

• Evaluated student writing skills and understanding of global public health concepts through grading assignments, projects, and presentations
• Collaborated with professor and other teaching team members to create assignments, exams, projects, and rubrics
• Facilitated small group discussions

• Collected and interpreted public health policies and data that shows the impact of contraceptive access and utilization in Illinois in comparison with twelve other states across the country
• Authored a report and policy crosswalk about Medicaid Buy-In, later used by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker
• Participated in a Contraceptive Justice coalition and workgroup
• Gained valuable knowledge of health insurance and coverage issues, advocacy, and government policy

• Assisted Public Health professors on projects related to infant mortality, infant safe sleep, and public health systems
• Synthesized 50+ literature sources about the maternal and child health systems in the United States to create a manuscript for a soon-to-be published paper
• Awarded through the Irving Harris Scholars Program, which focuses on student leadership development in order to improve the health and well-being of women, children, and families

• Utilized project managements skills to develop timeline in order to coordinate 10-12 high quality performances per summer
• Enacted high-level organizations skills (organizing staff meetings, developing timelines, creating workplans and logistics) in order to manage every aspect of a show, including auditions, rehearsals, and performances
• Created individualized trainings with 10-15 crew members per summer in order to execute logistics of each performance
• Developed skills to work with 35-40 performers per summer who come from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels

• Oversaw sixty campers, ages 6-14, during daily camp activities
• Responsible directly for twenty students, ages 6-8 in summer of 2014, and ages 12-14 summer of 2015
• Facilitated a daily group activity with twenty campers where they were asked to create their own theatrical skits

• Designed a full semester curriculum for 8th grade health, including topics such as: sexual health, drug and alcohol abuse, nutrition & mental and emotional health
• Created lessons, assessments, and activities based off of the National Health Education Standards
• Facilitated daily classroom learning

• Assisted Dr. Jean Marie Place in researching infertility as a visible women’s health issue
• Researched frequency of writing on infertility in major women’s health journals and contributed to a paper on findings which was published in the journal Sexual & Reproductive Health Care
• Presented research findings at Ball State University’s Student Symposium through a poster presentation

• Collaborated with the professor and other teacher assistant to create assignments, exams, and rubrics using Blackboard
• Evaluated student writing skills and understanding of theatrical concepts through grading papers, projects, and presentations
• Designed a lesson plan and gave a lecture on stage management

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Maternal And Child Health

Activities and Societies: Irving Harris ScholarTrainee within the Center of Excellence (CoE) in Maternal and Child Health -The CoE is a.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Health Teacher Education

Activities and Societies: Theatre Minor, Women & Gender Studies Minor, Sociology Minor

Education record