Jillian Duke, Msph Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Manage a multimillion-dollar portfolio of project deliverables for federally and privately funded projects important to State and Territorial Health Officials in the areas of health equity, elimination of disparities, and place-based public health initiatives.• Provide capacity building to state and territorial health agency leadership and staff by responding to technical assistance requests and translating public health policy, legislation, and evidence-based research into recommendations for best practice.• Proactively build, cultivate trust, and strengthen relationships to promote health equity work within the community health and prevention portfolio to support membership and ASTHO as an organization.• Identify opportunities for collaboration both internally across ASTHO teams, and externally by representing ASTHO at national/federal meetings, workgroups, and committees.• Manage and support direction for the CDC-funded State COVID-19 Health Equity project, including oversight of related budgets, contract reporting requirements, and work plan activities.• Supervise and provide personal support for the PHEI intern and project contractors to execute workplan activities and develop and disseminate project findings.• Oversee the execution of deliverables, including planning and implementing virtual learning sessions, capacity-building activities, ongoing technical assistance to state teams, and state, federal, and partner calls.• Develop and implement project outcome and process evaluation activities, including measuring progress toward project objectives, goals, and intended outcomes.• Identify opportunities and lead collaboration across ASTHO on cross-cutting health equity and community engagement issues.• Develop and facilitate strategic planning and health equity 101 workshops in Honolulu, Hawaii and Pago Pago, American Samoa.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Managed internal initiatives to promote and coordinate activities that increase minority and underserved populations’ participation in research to decrease health disparities and achieve health equity.• Conducted qualitative and quantitative research and data analysis to develop in-depth health disparities materials to assist staff in sharing with community members.• Built, cultivated trust, and strengthened stakeholder relationships to eliminate health disparities and promote health equity work within the community.• Translated and disseminated Meharry researchers’ health disparities study results to over 200 community members and diverse groups via lay abstracts in community newsletter, Fisk Radio Segment, and newspaper ads.• Identified opportunities and lead collaboration across Meharry Medical College on issues related to health disparities research, health equity, and community engagement.• Lead and facilitated Community Advisory Boards and Community Engagement Studios.• Developed over 20 partnerships between academia (including researchers) and the community at large (including Community Based Organizations) to address health inequities in underserved populations.• Created over 30 surveys and evaluations via RedCap.• Managed $200,000 grant budget.• Provided subject matter expertise on health disparities, research, and community engagement to local and state health departments, community members, researchers, and stakeholders.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Coordinated projects and activities specific to three federal grants’ goals and objectives, including reducing health disparities in underserved populations to achieve health equity.• Planned the 2018 Meharry Translational Research Center (MeTRC) Conference.• Managed the day-to-day detailed aspects of multiple cores and projects including engaging with community members about health disparities research, building relationships with local organizations, and respond to requests for health disparities training.• Managed $50,000 grant budget.• Evaluated the cores of the Meharry-Vanderbilt-Tennessee State Partnership Grant.• Coordinated and managed external and internal advisory committee meetings, annual retreats, and regional health disparities conference.

Nashville, Tn

• Instructed students on probability, hypothesis testing, regression, survival analysis, and normal distribution.• Tutored diverse graduate student learners in groups and one-on-one settings.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Evaluated the Food and Public Facilities Protection Program at Metro Public Health Department by creating and distributing an evaluation questionnaire to health inspectors.• Conducted qualitative with managers and supervisors regarding the morale and procedures of the new Food and Public Facilities Protection Program.• Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data and presented results to stakeholders via an oral presentation and written report.

Omaha, Nebraska

• Planned logistics for the 2017 CityMaTCH national conference in Nashville, TN.• Supported logistics and data collection for the 2017 Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Training Course.• Created interview template and transcribed interviews for FIMR/HIV Grant. • Created a comprehensive document to display information gathered from the different cohorts in the Minority Birth Inequalities Project.

Master'S Degree, Public Health

Activities and Societies: Robert Wood Johnson Scholar

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology