Jess Macfarlane Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

Advancing Health Equity is founded by Dr. Uché Blackstock, with a mission to engage with healthcare organizations to dismantle racism in healthcare with the goal of mobilizing for health equity and eradicating racial health inequities. With the AHE team, Jess conducts Equity Audits and Organizational Assessments to identify areas of opportunity and.

The mission of Jess MacFarlane Consulting is to build literacy and promote action among those who are committed to racial equity in their community but are unsure about next steps. As a white person, Jess' specific purpose is to mobilize white people in the collective process of unlearning racism and moving toward liberation for all people.Jess’ primary.

Founded by Dr. Oni Blackstock, Health Justice supports healthcare and public health organizations in centering equity in the workplace and reducing health inequities in the communities they serve. Jess' role on the Health Justice team is to develop workshop content and facilitate workshops, generally focused on fostering equitable team culture and building.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Drawing on cutting-edge mind science research on implicit bias, identity anxiety, and stereotype threat, Perception offers evidence-based strategies to foster belonging and promote equity in outcomes across a range of institutions. As Senior Research Director, Jessica's core responsibilities include project management, workplace needs assessments, data.

Greater New York City Area

Multi-faceted position incorporating skills in research, evaluation, and facilitation on Perception's core concepts of implicit bias, racial anxiety, and stereotype threat. Responsibilities include management of in-house and collaborative research projects, authoring reports, and creation and delivery of workshops for various stakeholders in criminal.

Greater New York City Area

Manage in-house research studies and translation of findings on implicit bias, racial anxiety, and stereotype threat. Responsibilities include study design, survey creation, data management, data analysis, and generation of research reports.

New York, NY

Project Coordinator for the Injection Drug Users Health Alliance (IDUHA), an initiative supported by the Harm Reduction Coalition. - Coordinated repeated cross-sectional study of 1,300 clients of 14 harm reduction agencies across New York City. - Played a crucial role in revising the survey, which assessed harm reduction service utilization, drug use.

New York, NY

Served as the primary liaison between faculty, TA’s, students, and administrative Office of Educational Programs for courses of the Master of Public Health program (Quantitative Foundations and Science, Evidence, Policy & Practice). Directly supervised 20 Teaching Assistants (TA's), who were fellow MPH students. Managed dissemination of all lecture content.

Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC

Primary Research Assistant for Kathleen Sikkema, PhD- Worked across a variety of domestic and international projects related to mental health, HIV prevention, alcohol use, and obstetric fistula- Quantitative and qualitative data management and analysis, NIH grant application preparation, contribution to study protocols and assessments, manuscript writing.

Durham, NC

Sikkema Lab, Department of Psychology & NeuroscienceEntry and management of behavioral data from patients of the Infectious Disease Clinic in the Duke Hospital, meta-analytic literature search on HIV infection and mental health in global settings, creation of bilingual (Swahili/English) database for study on mental health among women with obstetric fistulae.

Durham, NC

Cooper Lab, Department of Psychology & NeuroscienceContributed to meta-analysis on self-regulated learning and academic achievement through literature search, data coding, and effect size calculation. Contributed to protocol development and ran subjects through final protocol of study on ego depletion.

Durham, NC

Center for Child & Family Policy, Sanford School of Public PolicyConducted home visits to over 30 bilingual (Spanish/English) immigrant families and interviewed parents and children about parenting practices and child development, as part of the international "Parenting Across Cultures" study (Lansford, PI; funder, NICHD, Fogarty International).

Nairobi, Kenya

Created and administered an assessment of HIV testing motivation and uptake in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Aided in planning and execution of soccer tournaments for over 5,000 local youth. Assisted in planning and executive of monthly community clean-ups. Composed profiles of over forty CFK volunteers for the organization's website (http://cfk.unc.edu/).

Master Of Public Health (M.P.H.), Sociomedical Sciences, Certificate In Social Determinants Of Health

Activities and Societies: Lead Teaching Assistant for the first-year Core courses Quantitative Foundations and Science, Evidence, Policy &.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Spanish

Activities and Societies: Center for Race Relations, Common Ground (retreat facilitator), "Know Your Status" HIV Testing Organization.

Spanish Language And Literature

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude, National Spanish Honors Society, Varsity Cross Country (Captain), Varsity Soccer, Varsity Track &.