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My first year at NEHA has been focused on building the new website in support of the rebranding eort. Through this work, I have gotten to dig into all NEHA has to oer our members and work with people across our departments. Now that the new site has launched, I am looking forward to helping our new brand flourish by elevating our social media channels, finding creative ways to share the amazing resources our teams develop with a wider audience, and ensuring consistency across all communications. Before joining NEHA, I worked on the COVID-19 response communications team at Tri-County Health Department in the Denver metropolitan area. Prior to that I worked in political com- munications after graduating from Drake University with a bach- elor of arts. I enjoy spending my time training my recently rescued shelter dog, following the latest social media trends, and skiing in the winter or golfing in the summer. Julianne Manchester
prevention, retail food protection) through logic modeling and strategy development, create needs assessments and analyze gaps and redundancies in support of the prevention workforce, and facilitate discussions on suicide prevention planning resources with stakeholders. I bring real world, applied experience spanning over 21 years in program management, evaluation, and research in public health (health disparities, suicide prevention, alcohol and drug prevention, coalition building), health (traumatic brain injury, psychological health, delirium, dementia, diabetes, depression, palliative care), K-12 (school safety), and criminal justice sec- tors. I am an active member of the American Evaluation Associa- tion, Maryland Writers’ Association, and Virginia Writers Club. Nick Ogg
I joined NEHA as the media specialist within the Entrepreneurial Zone (EZ) department in February 2022. Growing up with two parents actively involved in the field of education, I always found it fun to see the “behind the scenes” of educational environments and seeing the results of all the eorts my parents put into their classrooms and curriculum.
I am the senior research and evaluation specialist for the NEHA-FDA Retail Flex- ible Funding Model (RFFM) Grant Pro- gram. I support the program by identi- fying training gaps across the retail food regulatory workforce and enjoy working with NEHA colleagues to build evaluation capacity in support of process improve- ment and outcomes measurement.
So, after a long and winding detour that first led me into a career managing various restaurant concepts, I found myself moving to Denver and obtaining my bachelor’s degree in video production from Metropolitan State University (MSU) of Den- ver in 2019. After completion of my degree, I started working for MSU Denver as an instructional media designer where I improved the skills that I brought to NEHA in creating educa- tional media that includes interviews, animations, and interac- tive videos. Working at NEHA for this first year has been an incredibly rewarding experience. NEHA and the EZ department have not only shown themselves to be a group of upstanding individuals but also demonstrate repeatedly their ability to create exceptional products through enthusiastic passion and a great collaborative culture. I love how we allow and support each other to explore outside our comfort zones and push ourselves to continue to cre- ate engaging, inventive courses throughout the field of environ- mental health. When not working, I enjoy studying film and television, cook- ing with my wife Jennifer, and convincing anyone willing to join me in a Denver happy hour!
I am a professionally trained evaluator and process improve- ment expert with a doctor of philosophy (PhD) degree earned in 2007 from The Ohio State University in quantitative research, evaluation, and measurement in education. I hold master’s degrees in industrial/organizational psychology and educational policy and leadership. I earned a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. I also have been the lead author of peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Military Medicine , Evaluation and Program Planning , and Performance Improvement . Over my career I have trained educators, health professionals, medical faculty, and the prevention workforce on building their processes and capacity to improve eectiveness demonstrations in health and behavioral health settings. My past leadership roles include principal investigator, program manager, and evaluation scientist on federal (Health Resources and Services Administra- tion and Oce of Minority Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Defense Health Agency within the U.S. Department of Defense) and state agreements (Ohio Depart- ment of Health, Ohio Department of Education, Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Ohio Commission on Minority Health). As a facilitator of evaluation knowledge for clients, colleagues, and stakeholders, I work to strengthen prevention policy, pro- vide capacity support to workforce development programs (e.g., employee assistance, substance abuse, risk reduction, suicide
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