Shyla K. Fields Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, AL, US

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Directs the day-to-day local, neighborhood, community, civic, and regional relations activities, and health equity research advocacy on behalf of the HSOM Dean's Office of Research.
• Directs, facilitates, and provides organizational support as needed for various activities, including but not limited to convening and coordinating engagements with the Collaborative Health Equity Council (CHEC).
• Serves as a key liaison with various UAB Research Centers, Institutes, and groups conducting health equity research, UAB Medicine, external community groups/leaders, and potential funding sources, including.
• Engages the HSOM Strategic Leadership Recruitment team in developing and implementing a health equity recruitment/cluster hire program.
• Directs the conduct of recurring health equity research funding landscape analyses, including assessment of the UAB HSOM portfolio and extramural funding opportunities, including federal, foundation, industry, and.
• Develops and implements HSOM health equity research focus area programming in conjunction with a yearly calendar of events and in collaboration with aligned research-related activities led by other entities across UAB.

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Helps develop diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence initiatives within the department, including educational materials and online modules
• Works with other offices and individuals within the department to promote greater sensitivity and responsiveness to these issues as they pertain to their respective initiatives and programs.
• Liaison with external organizations within the university and the community to facilitate diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence initiatives and programs
• Serves as a key liaison with various community groups and potential funding sources.
• Co-Facilitates diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence initiatives, particularly within higher education and health care settings
• Works effectively with multiple constituents, including faculty, staff, and administration, as well as external partners.

Downtown Birmingham

• Alternates roles as Linkage and Retention Coordinator (70%) and HIV Manager of Jefferson County (30%)
• Thoughtfully delivers HIV diagnoses, counsels and coordinates linkage to medical care for newly diagnosed HIV positive individuals.
• Serves as a coordinator for linkage to care and re-engagement in care to HIV healthcare and other related services.
• Operates in partnership with 1917 Clinic Prevention Education & Social Services Teams.
• Administers interventions (ARTAS, Motivational Interviewing, etc.), and provides other resources to clients who are ambivalent about entering or re-entering care.
• Project coordinator and implementer of HIV testing (1-year pilot) in the University of Alabama Emergency Department Trauma Units.

• Administrative experience
• Provided the Associate Dean of Education and Curriculum secretarial support, often of a high level or confidential nature, in support of the departmental operation.
• Coordinated departmental student/patient-related activities.
• Provided secretarial support, often of a high level or confidential nature, in support of departmental operations in the HR department and financial department.
• Provided administrative support to the Director of the UAB 1917 outpatient clinic while supervising the front desk workers.
• Maintained departmental human resource files and documentation of departmental actions.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Produced a gross placement rate of 90 percent of all graduates actively seeking assistance in education-related positions with ninety (90) days after graduation.
• Presented training development to students that promotes interview readiness and professional behavior in the workplace.
• Provided counseling, vocational guidance, and case management services to clients of a specified job placement program.
• Performed personnel management and evaluation, policy and development.
• Oversaw and coordinated client referral and placement services, and the solicitation and servicing of employer participants in the program.
• Developed employer contacts within the community that led to job opportunities for graduates.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English

Mba, Business Administration