Cores

Administrative Core

The Administrative Core (AC) provides overall guidance, support, and management for the Center and fosters integration across research projects and cores. AC activities also include overseeing the Center’s External Advisory Board, Rapid Response Pilot Grant Program, Annual Scientific Retreat, and Health Equity Working Group.

Specific Aims

• Aim 1. Foster effective collaboration across IMPACT’s research projects and cores to achieve integration of their research activities and products.
• Aim 2. Manage IMPACT’s operations and progress toward milestones.
• Aim 3. Administer the Rapid Response Pilot Grant Program.

Lead

Noel Brewer

Noel Brewer, PhD

Gillings Distinguished Professor of Public Health
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Role in the Center:
Principal Investigator
Lead, Admin Core
Lead, Project 1

Elizabeth Bernstein, BS

Research Project Coordinator
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Role in the Center:
Project Coordinator, Project 1
Administrative Core
Health Equity Working Group member

Jennifer Mendel Sheldon, MPH

Assistant Director, Research
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Role in the Center:
Manager, Administrative Core
Health Equity Working Group member

Intervention Core

The Intervention Core (IC) supports research projects by bringing project-specific findings and materials together into a comprehensive intervention package. IC prepares AAT facilitators and training materials national dissemination of intervention delivery by assessing key implementation and cost measures.

Specific Aims

• Aim 1. Convene a Clinical Advisory Board for multi-disciplinary implementation support.
• Aim 2. Prepare AAT facilitators and training materials for intervention delivery.
• Aim 3. Harmonize assessment of key implementation measures, including cost.
• Aim 4. Facilitate national dissemination of study findings and intervention materials.

Co-leads

William Calo and Melissa Gilkey

Chelsea Bufalini, MPH

Research Project Manager
Penn State College of Medicine

Role in the Center:
Co-Manager, Intervention Core

William A. Calo, PhD

Assistant Professor
Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences

Role in the Center:
Co-lead, Intervention Core                                                                                                           Health Equity Working Group member

Melissa Gilkey, PhD

Associate Professor
UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior

Role in the Center:
Project Lead, Project 3
Co-leader, Intervention Core

Jennifer Heisler-MacKinnon, MPH

Project Manager
UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior

Role in the Center:
Project Manager, Project 3
Co-Project Manager, Intervention Core

Data Core

The Data Core (DC) supports research projects in capturing high-quality data on HPV vaccination outcomes and appropriate use of statistical analysis. DC manages the national primary care team survey and large vaccination datasets generated by the RCTs.

Specific Aims

• Aim 1. Manage the national primary care team survey.
• Aim 2. Facilitate access to, and standardize structure of, large vaccination datasets generated by research project randomized clinical trials.
• Aim 3. Provide statistical and methodological support to research projects.

Co-leads

Justin Trogdon and Tara Queen

Kathryn Brignole, MSc

Research Project Manager
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Role in the Center:
Research Project Manager, Project 2
Research Project Manager, Data Core

Joseph G. Ibrahim, PhD

Alumni Distinguished Professor
Department of Biostatistics
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Role in the Center:
Co-investigator, Data Core

Tara L. Queen, PhD

Senior Research Scientist
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Role in the Center:
Co-Lead, Data Core

Emmanuel Rockwell, BA

Doctoral Student
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Role in the Center:
Graduate Research Assistant, Data Core

Justin Trogdon, PhD

Professor and Director of PhD Program
Gillings School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy and Management

Role in the Center:
Project Lead, Project 2
Project Co-Lead, Data Core

External Advisory Board

The AC established the External Advisory Board to provide strategic input on the Center’s activities and accomplishments. They also help build support for our dissemination.

EAB members

• Heather Brandt, PhD
• Lynne Fiscus, MD
• Kristin Oliver, MD
• Margot Savory, MD
• Shannon Stokley, DrPH
• Peter Szilagyi, MD
• Tami Thomas, PhD

Elizabeth Bernstein, BS

Research Project Coordinator
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Role in the Center:
Project Coordinator, Project 1
Administrative Core
Health Equity Working Group member

Heather Brandt, PhD

Director, HPV Cancer Prevention Program, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Role in the Center:
External Advisory Board Member

Lynne Fiscus, MD

President and CEO, UNC Physicians Network

Role in the Center:
External Advisory Board Member

Kristin Oliver, MD

Pediatrics and Preventative Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital
Program Director, General Preventative Medicine Residency
Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine & Public Health, Pediatrics, Medical Education, and Global Health
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Role in the Center:
External Advisory Board Member

Margot Savoy, MD

Senior Vice President for Education at American Academy of Family Physicians
Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Urban Bioethics & Population Health
Temple University, Lewis Katz School of Medicine

Role in the Center:
External Advisory Board Member

Shannon Stokley, DrPH

Acting Deputy Director
Immunization Services Division
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Role in the Center:
External Advisory Board Member

Peter Szilagyi, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
Executive Vice-Chair and Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Los Angeles

Role in the Center:
External Advisory Board Member

Tami Thomas, PhD

Professor, Associate Dean of Research, and Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Endowed Chair in Prevention and Family Health
Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Florida International University

Role in the Center:
Clinical Advisory Board Member
External Advisory Board Member

Clinical Advisory Board

The IC established the Clinical Advisory Board to provide diverse clinical expertise to research projects to aid the study team in successfully engaging primary care teams to improve HPV vaccine communication and uptake. They provide input to ensure that surveys, recruitment methods and intervention materials have clinical relevance.

CAB members

• Chris Barry, PA-C
• Karen Ernst, MA
• Benjamin Fogel, MD
• Lisa Mansfield, PhD
• Tim McCoy, DO
• Tami Thomas, PhD
• Sandra Weaver, CMAIII

Chris Barry, PA-C

Jeffers, Mann & Artman Pediatrics

Role in the Center:
Clinical Advisory Board Member

Karen Ernst, MA

Executive Director, Voices for Vaccines
Co-Founder, Minnesota Childhood Immunization Coalition

Role in the Center:
Clinical Advisory Board Member

Benjamin Fogel, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Academic General Pediatrics
Vice Chair of Quality for the Department of Pediatrics
Penn State College of Medicine

Role in the Center:
Clinical Advisory Board Member

Lisa Mansfield, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles - National Clinician Scholars Program

Role in the Center:
Clinical Advisory Board Member

Tim McCoy, DO

Department Chair, Family Medicine
Central Iowa CIN Medical Director
MercyOne Medical Group – Central Iowa

Role in the Center:
Clinical Advisory Board Member

Tami Thomas, PhD

Professor, Associate Dean of Research, and Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Endowed Chair in Prevention and Family Health
Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Florida International University

Role in the Center:
Clinical Advisory Board Member
External Advisory Board Member

Sandra Weaver, CMAIII

UNC Family Medicine and Pediatrics

Role in Center:
Clinical Advisory Board Member