For the past 4 years, she has been serving as the Lead Evaluator for The Robert Young Center/UnityPoint – St. Ambrose University partnership on Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC). Her role is to oversee the collection and management of data, analyze descriptive and outcome data, produce reports, and oversee implementation of the evaluation tasks required for the grant. She uses a formative evaluation approach, which involves the evaluation team from the beginning and throughout the entire period; use process assessment to identify barriers toward program compliance, data collection, and implementation issues; and when applicable, adjustments and revisions in real time.
She is passionate about public health, social justice, and public service. Her career in public health includes 23 years of military public health, health promotion, community health, environmental health, and health policy, and she has worked with different nonprofit organizations in various capacities to advocate for the underserved.