Category: Staff
Courtney McMillian, MPH
February 1, 2024
Courtney McMillian serves as the Associate Clinical Research Coordinator for the North Carolina Community Engagement Alliance (NC CEAL) in the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). With a focus in epidemiology on the infectious disease track, McMillian earned her Masters … Read more
Jess Roe, MPH
November 7, 2023
Jess Roe(she/her) serves as an Education and Training Coordinator with the NC Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) at the UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). Roe earned her MPH in Health Equity, Social Justice, & Human Rights from the UNC … Read more
Caroline Carter
September 28, 2023
Caroline Carter is a recent graduate from North Carolina Central University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications with a focus on Public Relations. She also attended UNC Charlotte from 2017 to 2021, where she studied middle-grade education … Read more
Matthew Palmer, MPH
September 15, 2023
Matthew Palmer (he/him/his) serves as a Research Assistant in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. He earned his MPH in Health Behavior from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2023. He was an Interprofessional Education and … Read more
Abhigna Rao, B.A.
August 15, 2023
Abhigna Rao is a Student Research Assistant with Abacus Evaluation at the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and is pursuing her MPH in Health Behavior from the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She also serves as a Graduate … Read more
Alexa Katon, M.S.
July 6, 2023
Alexa Katon works in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) as an Interim Project Coordinator for the RADx® Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative. Katon earned her B.S. in Nutrition Science from NC State University and her M.S. in Forensic … Read more
Ames J. Lynch
April 19, 2023
Ames Lynch (they/she) serves as an Associate Project Specialist in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. They received their degree in Political Science at NC State with a concentration in International Politics which involved open source intelligence, peacekeeping and … Read more
Timothy T. Simmons
April 19, 2023
Timothy Simmons is a Community Engagement Specialist on the New IDEAS team. Simmons is a service-focused community educator who has over 20 years of experience in member engagement and community collaboration. He strongly believes in advocacy and empowerment of those … Read more
Jeffrey Mathew, MBA, PMP, CIA, UTD Yellow Belt
April 19, 2023
Jeffrey Mathew has over 15 years of experience in nationally ranked healthcare and academic institutions. He oversees all components of implementation and execution of the RADx-UP program objectives in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). Responsibilities include providing … Read more
Veena Reddy, B.S.
January 26, 2023
Veena Reddy is an advanced social/clinical Research Assistant in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. She works with the Co-LEARN team to research effective implementation strategies for cardiovascular disease evidence-based practices. Reddy earned her B.S. in Biology at the … Read more
India Rockett
January 13, 2023
India Rockett is a Research Assistant at the UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and is currently assisting with the NC CEAL project. She is pursuing an M.S. (2023 candidate) in Population Health Science and a Global Health certificate … Read more
Christina Carilli
October 5, 2022
Christina Carilli is as a Social/Clinical Research Assistant with the Implementation of EMR-Integrated Referrals to Link Clinical and Community Services to Reduce Health Inequity initiative at the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from High Point … Read more
Erika M. Redding, MSPH
January 11, 2022
Erika Redding serves as a Research Program Manager in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. She earned her MSPH in 2019 from the Department of Health Behavior in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC; she is … Read more
Monica M. Taylor, Ph.D., MPH
October 27, 2021
Monica M. Taylor, Ph.D., MPH is a Research Scientist in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. She earned her Ph.D. in Planning and Public Policy from the Bloustein School at Rutgers University where she investigated disparities in breast cancer … Read more
Sara O’Brien
August 31, 2021
Sara O’Brien (she/her/hers) is an Undergraduate Research Assistant for the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. She is currently studying to get her BSPH in Biostatistics and B.A. in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from UNC Chapel Hill. O’Brien has worked … Read more
Andrea Mendoza, MPH
August 26, 2021
Andrea Mendoza (she/her) is a Community Engagement Specialist for the New IDEAS study in the Center for Health Equity Research. She graduated with her MPH in global health from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2021 and … Read more
Airianne Posey, MSW
August 5, 2021
Airianne Posey is a Social/Clinical Research Assistant at the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. Posey earned a master’s in Social Work with an American Indian/Alaska Native populations concentration from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis in … Read more
Gabrielle Schust, BA
December 18, 2020
Gabrielle Schust is a first-year Master of Public Health Student in the Global Health concentration at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She received her B.A. in International Studies and Spanish from the Croft Institute for International Studies … Read more
Maura Drewry, MPH
November 9, 2020
Maura Drewry (she/her/hers) serves as a Project Coordinator in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. She earned her MPH in Health Behavior from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2020, and she earned her B.S. in … Read more