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Overview
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Organizational
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The
Institute for Health, Policy and Evaluation Research was formed in
September 2001 as a Division of the Duval County Health Department in
collaboration with the University of Florida, Department of Pediatrics.
The Institute is conceptualized as a community resource, serving as
a pivotal center for coordinating and enhancing community health research
and evaluation capacity. The
Institute includes a Center for
Health Statistics, a Center for Program Evaluation, a Center for Community
Health Research, a Policy Research Center and a Center for
Health
Services Research for Vulnerable Children.
The
Institute provides the community and the state with a substantial
quantitative and qualitative research capacity, combining the surveillance
and assessment functions of a local Health Department with the research
assets of an Academic Medical Center.
This highly applied research capacity enables the community to
address population and community health issues, normally beyond the scope
of either institution’s traditional boundaries.
The Institute is well equipped to accomplish both the research and
assessment missions with the requisite software to perform a broad range
of quantitative and qualitative analysis including: SPSS, SAS, Atlas TI,
ArcGIS, Remark and Microsoft Professional Office packages.
In addition to software, the Institute has multiple secure servers
to house large amounts of confidential data with highly restricted access
by designated people. Supporting
equipment includes two scanners with automatic document feeders to input
primary data collection. The
Institute also has compatible voice recording software for data
transcription to support four digital voice recorders that are used to
assist with in-person, focus group and telephone interviews.
In addition to Institute printers and a large color plotter, the
Institute has access to the Department’s graphic office located in the
same building.
The Institute has a highly competent and growing staff.
The Director has over 30 years of experience as a University
faculty member and 15 years experience as the Chair of an Academic
Department that included teacher preparation programs.
He previously conducted evaluation of statewide school based health
programs, chaired the development of statewide health education curriculum
guidelines, chaired statewide efforts to enhance teacher preparation
standards for health and physical education, and served as President of a
state affiliate of the American School Health Association.
The Institute Administrator has a MSW and extensive research
training at the doctoral level in addition to key experience evaluating
community-based programs and community health program administration.
The Institute also has six MPH trained research associates with
various background (from biostatistics to health education to global
health and infectious diseases) and a data technology research assistant with GIS
mapping ability. Other full
time staff include: a PHD level Anthropologist, two ethnographic research
assistant, a database research assistant and an administrative assistant. Part time staff
includes a
master’s level statistician and a research assistant. Senior researchers
affiliated with the Institute through the University
of
Florida
include two physician (MD) researchers with MPH degrees.

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Director:
William
Livingood, PhD |
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Dr.
Bill Livingood, Director of the Institute and Associate Professor of Pediatrics
at the University of Florida, has been a university professor for over
thirty years (first tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1976
and promoted to professor in 1983), during which time he served as an
academic department chairperson for over 15 years.
He has been Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator for
numerous community based applied research and evaluation projects
involving the use of a variety of research designs including studies
related to: tobacco
control, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health,
physical activity and obesity reduction, and health professions
and workforce development.
He has lead research efforts funded by a range of national
organizations including the American Public Health Association and the
Health Resources and Services Administration related to public health
workforce and credentialing issues.
In addition he has done work for maternal & child health projects
with
funding from the CDC and HRSA Maternal & Child Health Bureau and
state Departments of Health for
Pennsylvania
and
Florida. Other research
efforts include a variety of substance abuse and child abuse related
evaluation projects, funded by national organizations through local and
state agencies.
He has held national, state and local leadership positions
for a variety of voluntary, professional and advocacy health
organizations. He presents at numerous professional meetings on an annual
basis, is published in a broad range of national public health and health
promotion journals, and serves as a reviewer for many of those journals. He
is immediate past President of the Council of Accredited MPH Programs and
he received the Distinguished Fellow recognition from the Society for
Public Health Education (SOPHE) in 2000.

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Administrator:
Thomas
Bryant III, MSW
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Thomas
Bryant III began working with the Duval County Health Department first as
director of the Center for Disease Control-funded Adolescent Pregnancy
Prevention Program and its evaluation. He has directed research,
planning and evaluation programs at the Northeast Florida Regional
Planning Council, the New York City Department of Probation, and the New
York City Commission on Human Rights. He taught graduate and
undergraduate courses at Columbia University, New York University and
Tusculum College. Mr. Bryant received his Master's degree in Social
Work from Florida State University. He continued his post graduate
education in Social Research in the doctoral program at the Columbia
University School of Social Work. Mr. Bryant has extensive training
and experience in research design, database design and development and
qualitative and quantitative analyses. He is proficient in
statistical (SPSS and EPI Info), database (Access & SQL), spreadsheet,
mapping and presentation software packages. He serves on the
Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition and the Community Partnership
for the Protection of Children Governing Board.
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Coordinator for the Center for
Community Health Research: |
| Nancy
Winterbauer, PhD |
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Dr.
Nancy Winterbauer is a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist. She
received a PhD in Biomedical Anthropology from Binghamton
University (SUNY) and a MS degree in Epidemiology from the University
at Albany (SUNY). She has extensive experience in mixed-methods
research, which she has applied to studies of gender and health, sexually
transmitted infections, domestic violence, social marketing and
program evaluation. She has served as PI or primary
evaluator on numerous studies, including a CDC/HRSA-funded evaluation
of an AIDS and Corrections Demonstration Project – Jacksonville Jail
LINC (Linking Inmates to Care), a breastfeeding promotion
program targeting clients attending DCHD WIC clinics, and a
civil-legal needs assessment of clients seeking services at the DCHD,
Center for Women and Children. She is a founding member of the
community-based participatory research group, Community Research Partners
for Kids with Special Needs and is a Co-investigator, along with other
members of the partnership, of an NIH-funded research project to develop
and evaluate an intervention to enhance care coordination for special
needs children. In addition to her position at the Institute, Dr.
Winterbauer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the
University of North Florida, where she teaches courses in health and
illness, cross-cultural methods, and diversity. Prior to joining
DCHD, Dr. Winterbauer was a Senior Research Scientist in the School of
Public Health at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she conducted
street ethnography related to syphilis and HIV among out-of-treatment
injection drug users, sex workers, and men who have sex with men.
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Coordinator for
the Center of Health Statistics: |
| Rebecca
T. Filipowicz, MPH, MS, CHES
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Rebecca
Filipowicz joined the Institute for Health, Policy and Evaluation Research
in September, 2005. Rebecca
has been an employee of the Florida Department of Health since December,
2003. She formerly held a
position as a regional coordinator for Chronic Disease Health Promotion
and Education in the panhandle of Florida.
Rebecca holds a Master’s degree in Public Health with a major in
Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from Emory University in Atlanta,
Georgia. She also holds a
Master’s degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology
from the University of North Texas. In
addition Rebecca is a certified health education specialist.
Prior to working for the Florida DOH, she was an instructional
designer and evaluation coordinator for the Career MPH program at the
Rolllins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Rebecca is also adjunct faculty with the Career MPH program at Emory
University and the College of Health at the University of North Florida.
She has worked as a consultant for Health Consulting Group,
Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia, specifically on HIV related projects and
workforce development. Rebecca
has experience working in program evaluation, workforce development,
instructional design, research methods, distance learning, teaching and
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Coordinator for
the Center for Policy Research:
Susan
Coughlin, MPH
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Susan
Coughlin joined the Institute in July 2004. She received a
Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan with dual major
in Economics and Organizational Studies. From 2000-2001, she
worked in employee benefits consulting where she concentrated in
health and life insurance cost/benefit analysis before returning to
school for her master’s. She received an MPH in Health
Policy and Management from Columbia University’s Mailman School of
Public Health. The summer before she received her master’s
degree, she was a health care policy intern at the United States
Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, DC. After
receiving her degree, she worked at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) on the evaluation of New Jersey’s
Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan in conjunction with the New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior Services. Currently, Susie
works on the evaluation and data management of a CDC-funded project
with DCHD’s AIDS Program Office. She
has also recently completed an evidence-based policy report on the
prevention of childhood obesity.
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Coordinator for
the Center for Program Evaluation: |
| Radley
C. Remo, MPH |
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Radley
Remo received his Master's in Public Health in Epidemiology from the
University of South Florida. He received his Bachelor’s degree in
Health Sciences from the University of North Florida. He has over
seven years experience working at the Duval County Health Department as a
Research Associate and Health Educator.
He has worked as a Senior Data Analyst for an academic medical
center (Shands Jacksonville) in Jacksonville, FL and as a Research
Assistant at James A. Haley Veteran’s Hospital in Tampa, FL.
He has a wide range of skills and knowledge of data analysis and
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Director for the Center for
Health Services Research for Vulnerable Children: |
| David
Wood, M.D., MPH |
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David
Wood joined the University of Florida in 2000 as the Chief of the Division
of Community Pediatrics. He is board certified in preventive
medicine and public health. He completed his medical and public health
training at UCLA where he stayed for his residency in Pediatrics and
Preventive Medicine. He concluded his training with a fellowship in
Health Services Research at RAND-UCLA. Dr. Wood has an extensive
career in health services research focusing on children’s health.
He has done research at Los Angeles County Public Health Department, UCLA
School of Medicine, the Delmarva Foundation, Shriners Hospital for
Children in Tampa, and at the University of Florida here in Jacksonville.
Currently, he works collaboratively with the Duval County Health
Department on many projects including: Utilization of Primary and
Specialty Care by persons with Mental Retardation/Developmental
Disabilities in Florida, Social Capital and Immunization Receipt among
inner-city preschoolers, providing a Medical Home model for special needs
children, homeless children and adolescents transitioning to adult health
care services. He also is attending pediatrician at the
Kids ‘N Care clinic, a clinic for children in foster care and
homeless children, and in the Jacksonville Health and Transition Services
clinic at Shands/UF Internal Medicine clinic. |

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Biostatistician: |
| Tao
Hou, MPH |
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Tao
Hou received his Master’s in Public Health from the University of South
Florida. His previous experience includes working as a research assistant
for the Prevention Science & Methodology Group at University of South
Florida. His major contribution included data analysis for
Baltimore Prevention Program by using Growth Mixture Modeling and
programming for "Power Calculation Web Approach for Longitudinal
Prevention Project". Tao was also involved in “Youth Drug
Treatment Program” at St. Petersburg, FL and the Library of Congress “Mail
Irradiation Study”.
Currently
Tao is the biostatistician for the Institute of Health, Policy and
Evaluation Research which provides general biostatistical consultation for
data management planning, statistical analyses, grant and manuscript
preparation, and statistical computing. His recent research activities
have focused on statistical analysis for a project related to access to
primary and specialty medical care for persons with mental retardation or
developmental diseases in Florida and preventable morbidity; as well as a
pilot study of the impact of pre- and inter-conceptional care case
management on birth outcomes of high-risk women.
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Research
Associate:
Kimberly
Pierce, MPH
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Kimberly
Pierce received her Master's in Public Health from Emory University’s
Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) in 2005.
Her previous experience includes working as a Research Specialist for
Emory University’s School of Medicine (2000-2006), a research intern for
the RSPH’s department of Global Health’s Molecular Epidemiology Unit
(2004-2005), and as a systematic literature reviewer for the CDC’s
Community Guide-Task force for Community Preventive Services within the
division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (2005-2006).
Kimberly has extensive experience in quantitative analysis through
statistical software packages (SAS, Epi Info, and SPSS) and database
management through Access software.
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Research
Associate: |
| Ryan
Marie Diduk, MPH, CHES |
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Ryan
Diduk received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from
Russell
Sage
College
in Troy,NY. She competed her Master's of Public Health with a
concentration in Community Health Education from
East
Stroudsburg
University. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
and also holds a position on the national leadership board of the Society
for Public Health Education through November 2007.
She
has worked on various projects related to
pregnancy and tobacco use, crimes against women on college campuses,
bioterrorism, and most recently completed a study that investigated
eating disorders in racially and ethnically diverse college women.
She
also has spent time as an health educator at a children’s
hospitalization program and as a graduate assistant in graduate school
working on various research projects.
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Statistical
Research Associate: |
| Luminita
Razaila, MS |
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Lumi
Razaila received a Master's in Mathematical Science from the University of North
Florida and her Bachelor degree from the University of Bucharest, in Romania. Her
contributions to the Institute involve analyzing data and collecting
summarized information available on the net, to create statistical reports
or maps. At the present time she teaches Statistics for Health and Social
Science at UNF where she is employed as a full-time Statistics Instructor.
Her experience also includes working as a Statistics Researcher at
Vistakon, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary based here in Jacksonville,
in their Department of Clinical Research.
She also works as a Statistical Consultant with the Southern
Community Cohort Study. |

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Research
Assistant: |
| Morris
W. Jackson, MPA |
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Mr.
Jackson received a Master degree in Public Administration from Troy State
University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Jackson
State University. He began working with DCHD over 5 years ago in the
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program where he supervised data
collection in the Teen Behavior Survey project where teens were used to
survey other teens regarding risky behaviors in settings where they
hangout, i.e, malls, parks, community centers. Mr. Jackson currently works
as a GIS mapping analyst and database manager. In addition, he
has been in the Air Force reserves for 22 years. |

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Ethnographer
Research Assistant: |
| Anita
Davis, BA |
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Anita
holds Bachelor's of Arts degrees in Political Science and Anthropology from
the University of North Florida. She has conducted two independent
grant-funded qualitative research projects in Japan and now engages in
qualitative research at the Institute including work for the Statewide
HIV/AIDS needs assessment, evaluation of Healthy Childcare Jacksonville, a
Childhood Obesity study, evaluation of the Anne E. Dyson foundation grant
implementation, Medical Home project for children with special health care
needs and the Magnolia study which looks at maternal health care.
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Research
Assistant: |
| Annika
Cline |
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Annika
is currently working on her Bachelor's of Arts Degree at University of North
Florida with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Education. She
has been with the Institute since March 2006. Her
previous experience includes work with Covenant Hospice and the Jackson
County Association of Retarded Citizens. At
the institute, Annika works on database development and management using
Microsoft Access. She partners
with DCHD’s Healthy Jacksonville office on various projects, as well as
local community organizations such as the March of Dimes.
She also does data collection and management for the Carol M. White
Physical Education Program (PEP) Grant in conjunction with the Duval
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Staff
Assistant:
Eulisa
Morgan-Murphy, BA
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Eulisa
Morgan-Murphy received her Bachelors of Arts Degree in
Business Administration.
She is planning on continuing her education with University South
Florida with a Master’s Degree in Public Health.
Eulisa has been involved in several organizations within
Duval
County
such as Study
Circles of Jacksonville dealing with racial division, Healthy Families of
Jacksonville, and Jacksonville Housing Authority aimed at helping senior
citizens. She
has been working with the health department since April 2005 and is looking
forward to continuing her qualitative and quantitative research.
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Administrative Assistant III: |
| Kathleen
Stansell |
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Kathleen
has been associated with the Institute since it was formed in September
2001 and has extensive administrative experience. In September 2006,
she was honored with a Duval County Health Department, Senior Management
Service Award.
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Institute
for Health, Policy and Evaluation Research
900
University Boulevard North, Suite 604
Jacksonville,
FL 32211
(904)
630-3255
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