Robin Jean Gruenfeld Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Major Skills: Results-based facilitation, results-based accountability, application of anti-racist lens to a large multi-sector collaborative• Develop and direct March of Dimes Collective Impact initiative focused on reducing inequities in preterm birth and maternal mortality• Identify and engage partners in a city-wide, multi-sector collaborative to build a common agenda, cultivate a shared vision of success, and recognize mutually reinforcing behaviors • Provide strategic results-based thinking to align and support steering committee, working groups, and all internal and external business partners

Greater New Orleans Area

Organizational and programmatic consultancy with a focus on facilitation, innovation, and problem-solving. Areas of expertise include organizational behavior, creative consulting, and healthcare solutions. Subject matter expertise include maternal and child health, social determinants of health, maternal, infant, and child mortality, bereavement, mortality surveillance, injury prevention, and death scene investigation.

Major Skills: Strategic leadership, curriculum development, clinical community health support, audience segmentation and marketing• Develop AHEC Scholars Program, a HRSA-funded two year, longitudinal program for students in health professional training programs to implement a defined set of clinical, didactic, and community-based training activities to deepen participants’ knowledge and understanding of healthcare among rural and underserved populations• Build a curriculum including 40 hours of didactic learning focused on providing a public health lens to clinicians in training, as well as clinical training opportunities in rural and/or underserved settings• Develop and maintain databases for monitoring and evaluation, including key stakeholders, participants, healthcare systems and settings, medical professional training programs• Create promotional plan and marketing materials for each audience – students, care settings, academic institutions• Evaluate project, including data abstracted through follow up surveys with participants, instructors, and practice experience sites.

Major Skills: Research, analysis, and translation of data, particularly through the lens of social change, solution-oriented facilitation• Develop and message Evermore’s guiding principles and policy platform, both dedicated to making the world a more livable place for bereaved families• Conduct research on broad issues like mass casualty events, child death scene investigation, and stillbirth to define the challenges that face bereaved families, select metrics for success, and recommend remedies that improve the lives of bereaved families• Identify and engage partners in research and policymaking at all levels to cultivate a shared vision of success and identify mutually reinforcing behaviors

Greater New Orleans Area

Major Skills: translation of data to action, team leadership, performance management, legislative support, mortality and injury surveillance and prevention• Developed and oversaw BFH’s mortality surveillance systems – Fetal Infant Mortality Review, Child Death Review, and Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review – as well as a dynamic team dedicated to protecting and promoting the health of families statewide• Established regional Community Action and Advisory Teams that served as a hub for local-level family health initiatives in each of Louisiana’s nine public health regions • Authored responses for study resolutions, including HCR 118: The efficacy and desirability of baby boxes as an infant mortality prevention strategy in Louisiana; and HCR 162: Prevention, screening, and treatment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome; and other legislative support as assigned• Staffed Louisiana’s Commission on Perinatal Care and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, the Louisiana State Child Death Review Panel, and Louisiana State Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review Panel• Chaired the Maternal and Child Health subcommittee for the Governor’s Commission for Preventing Opioid Abuse• Coordinated and participated in emergency response efforts of BFH, including support of projects that reduced likelihood of injury or fatality in post-emergency settings.

Greater New Orleans Area

The mission of JPNSI is to increase the range of affordable housing options available to low- and moderate income residents by encouraging resident-controlled development; advocating for shared-equity models of homeownership, cooperative housing, and rental opportunities; and promoting community-building initiatives that advance equitable housing patterns, neighborhood stability, and community-driven land-use planning.Utilizing the Community Land Trust (CLT) model of affordability and neighborhood revitalization, JPNSI is committed to the development of affordable housing and the promotion of just and equitable community development that centers the needs of residents most vulnerable to housing discrimination, displacement, and neighborhood planning exclusion.Robin serves on the Fundraising and Operations and Governance subcommittees.

Greater New Orleans Area

Major Skills: Community health and outreach, health equity, mortality surveillance, data translation, grant writing, event planning, and public health communication• Provided oversight for special projects within Healthy Start New Orleans. • Regularly conducted outreach and neighborhood engagement in order to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions intended to improve the health of New Orleans' families. • Acquired and interpreted data used to inform Healthy Start New Orleans’ practice. • Oversaw grant writing and special event planning, public speaking, research briefs, policy memos, progress reports, branding, social media, and other written materials.

Greater New Orleans Area

Assisted in the implementation of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment tool at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Designed a sampling scheme, collected environmental samples, and conducted analysis. Collaborated with site employees to optimize the program's efficacy. Authored reports and gave presentations to communicate findings and recommendations.

Mph, Environmental And Occupational Health Science, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Student Government Association - President, 2012-2013; First Year Student Representative, 2011-2012

Post-Bacc Study, Biophysics

Activities and Societies: Cal-Corps

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Chemistry Club

Bachelor'S Degree, Geology

Activities and Societies: Society for Earth and Environmental Science, UNO Sustainability Initiative, UNO Greens

Certified Pilates Instructor, Matwork And Standing Pilates

My practice and study of Pilates maintains an emphasis on the effective use of props for fitness and rehabilitation.