Melissa Lyon Email & Phone Number

Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States

Public Health Director for a newly forming Public Health Department in Delaware County, PA. Delaware County Pennsylvania is the most populous county in the country without a stand alone local public health department. The Delaware County Health Department will be built upon the 21st Century Public Health ideology, utilizing Public Health Accreditation, Public Health 3.0 and Public Health Forward frameworks.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Westfield, New York, United States

Supervise and manage all staff and clinical trial study coordinators. Negotiate pharmaceutical trial budgets and contracts. Maintain all FDA regulatory documentation for clinical research trials.Manage and validate all Principal Investigators (MDs) and Study Coordinators training and education for clinical trials. Develop annual budgets and strategize business growth plans with CEO and CFO.Plan and execute marketing, outreach and branding strategies.

Mayville, Ny

Supervise the health education division and subcontractors for public health programs. Develop community coalition goals and serve on many of the youth and community based coalitions as public health community liaison. Analyze County specific data, identify gaps and develop public health programs and initiatives to meet the needs of the community. Collect, compile, analyze and report data for the Community Health Assessments and Hospital Community Services Plans. Monitor and account for grant goals, objectives and outcomes. Submit quarterly grant progress reports (STEPS to a Healthier NY, Baby and Me Tobacco Free, Cancer Services Program, Reality Check, WIC, Title 10 Family Planning Grant, and Tri-County Tobacco Control Grant).Grant writing, contract preparation and management. Budget development, oversight and reporting. Prepare NYSDOH required reports (Municipal Public Health Service Plan, Community Health Assessment, and Annual Performance Report).Coordinator of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program. Develop, design and write county emergency response plans. Coordinated all activities of the H1N1 pandemic mass vaccination response in Chautauqua County.

Conduct annual inspections for restaurants, temporary residences, campgrounds and mobile home parks. Design, review and inspect private septic system installation.Inspect private water and sewage for property transfers. Collect and analyze water samples for private and public water supplies. Investigate and resolve public health nuisance complaints.Assisted with website development.

Oregon, United States

Grande Ronde Model Watershed ProgramDeveloped environmental education materials. Through collaboration and relationship building, developed common environmental goals for governmental and private environmental agencies to be achieve in unison. Compiled an environmental resource directory. Created and published a monthly environmental newspaper (circulation 25,000). Chimpanzee Wildlife Rehabilitation Volunteer, Guinea, W. Africa/Cameroon, C. Africa; Direction Nationale des Eaux et Foret, Centre de Conservation pour les ChimpanzeeDirected and executed the daily responsibilities within the center.Fed and cared for 27 chimpanzees while performing individual rehabilitation for future release.

Inspect temporary food service establishments at private and public functions. Supervised summer employees. Presented public seminars about the West Nile Virus, and Rabies prevention programs.

Conducted agricultural and community development on a grass-roots level.Organized educational seminars and collaborated with non-governmental organizations regarding agriculture techniques, health issues, continuing education for students and micro-project development. Routinely recruited farmers for program implementation and demonstration plots. Specialized in recruiting women into the small animal farmer project and small business program. Evaluated potential sites for community readiness and volunteer suitability.

Received, organized and resolved customer complaints nationally and internationally for an Immunodiagnostics company.Performed ELISA assays for Quality Control acceptance.

Master Of Public Health, Administrative Program Development

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Administration And Program Development, 4.0

Bachelor Of Science, Biology

High School, Honors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program

Activities and Societies: Sports (Basketball Volleyball Softball)