Regional

Kira King   Our next spotlight is Kira, who just recently joined us in the fall 0f 2020! Like everyone else, she does a lot every day like managing training, procuring professional development opportunities, facilitating educational field experiences for students and residents, linking volunteers into positions that support the work of their organization, and ultimately,…

Maya Chilese   Introducing our next spotlight, Maya Chilese! Like many of us, she has no sense of time after the last year so she thinks its been 3 years since she has been involved with the MPHTC! Currently, she is preparing for their reaccreditation application so every day is “chaos”. She is consumed with…

Roger Hileman   Our next RSC spotlight is Roger, who has been involved with us for a little over a year! He does a lot of the data stuff – analyzing performance data, planning evaluations, and developing assessments. He believes that MPHTC provides meaningful student experiences, develops robust workforce training and assessments, and expands its…

Sonja Armbruster     Our next spotlight is Sonja, who has been involved with MPHTC since 2014, supporting the Kansas site as part of the new PHTC configuration with the 10 HRSA Region training centers. Like our other public healthers, each day is different! She teaches in WSU’s Department of Public Health Sciences; her courses…

Kevin Greime Kevin has been involved with us for at least 6 years! When asked about his day-to-day work life he says, “sporadic, chaotic, and never mundane!” After all, when you work with staff and community partners, you need to have flexibility in your work day as you never know when a new opportunity will…

Colleen Svodoba This Regional Steering Committee Spotlight is dedicated to Colleen, who has been involved for around three years while at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and then at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health. She supports the public health practice community in her day-to-day work in Nebraska…

Tim Beachy   Meet Tim, who has been involved with MPHTC since it’s inception – he’s been at the Institute for Public Health Practice for 16 years! He works more on the programming and technical side of things by setting up course functionality, solving technical problems, producing data and reports, updating content, programming new functionality,…

Lina Tucker Reinders, MPH   Lina has been involved with MPHTC for almost two years. Like many public health-ers, her day as the Executive Director of the Iowa Public Health Association (IPHA) is incredibly busy – mostly due to COVID-19. She is working hard to maintain strong relationships with both state and local public health,…

Stacey Coleman Since 2016, Stacey has been working with the Office of Public Health Practice at the UNMC College of Public Health, predominantly being involved in clerical and organizational work. When asked about the value of MPHTC, she says that it gives the states the opportunity to collaborate in ways that they may not be…

Kristin Wilson, PhD, MHA   Introducing Kristin, the Heartland Center Executive Director who has been involved with us since 2018! She is also a full-time faculty member at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health & Social Justice where she teaches, mentors, researches, consults, and services the community and public health. Like many of our…

Dena Fife   Dena has been with us for a long time, on and off with different projects since 2009! She first joined as temporary help, then went on to contracting with us, and now is employed full-time as an instructional designer. Like the others, her day-to-day work varies with the many projects MPHTC is…