(BPRW) Meharry Welcomes Dr. Rosemary Nabaweesi as the RWJF Endowed Chair of Health Policy | Press releases
3 min read(BPRW) Meharry Welcomes Dr. Rosemary Nabaweesi as the RWJF Endowed Chair of Health and fitness Policy
(Black PR Wire) Dr. Nabaweesi will guide the Center’s wellness plan study on minority health and fitness and training inequities in rural and city communities
Meharry Professional medical School is happy to announce that Rosemary Nabaweesi, DrPH, MBChB, has been named the Robert Wood Johnson Basis endowed chair of health and fitness policy in the Heart for Wellness Plan at MMC.
Dr. Nabaweesi, a wellbeing providers analysis qualified, will assistance the College’s expanded initiatives to use health and fitness coverage, implementation and group-engaged study to address African American personal injury-connected childhood disparities and training inequities. With more than 25 years’ encounter in damage research addressing overall health disparities in urban and rural communities, Dr. Nabaweesi’s function will aim to increase the inequitable built (actual physical) and social environments of underserved African American communities. As an affiliate professor, she will educate a program centered on management and inhabitants health improve.
“We are thrilled that Dr. Nabaweesi has joined Meharry in its attempts to eradicate overall health disparities amongst minority populations, especially as it relates to residence safety procedures,” said James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D., president and chief govt officer of Meharry Health-related College. “Dr. Nabaweesi has considerable awareness in damage-linked toddler mortality disparities and can draw the relationship concerning coverage and environmental elements that influence reduced life expectancy in minority populations. Spearheading this new investigation at Meharry will generate a transformative change in the field.”
Dr. Nabaweesi performed a important job in securing the RWJF Society of Wellness Leaders grant, which will fund the Center’s efforts to advance a culture of health for underserved African American populations. The RWJF Culture of Wellness Leaders plan is a three-year experienced enhancement prospect made to prepare leaders to impact and enhance health and fitness inequities by developing a daring strategic initiative to advance a lifestyle of wellness. Dr. Nabaweesi is also a Chief in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) Fellow, a instruction method developed to establish a pathway for assorted leaders to conduct culturally responsive and equitable analysis focused on generating transformative modify.
“I am honored to suppose the job as the inaugural RWJF endowed chair of wellness policy and am psyched to assistance the Faculty in its mission to progress health equity,” reported Dr. Nabaweesi. “Prevention study yields a huge return on expense when addressing health and fitness worries confronted by minority communities, and I look forward to contributing to the change to populace health and fitness. I am eager to start out collaborations with other centers and schools at Meharry, the area local community and establishments throughout the condition and outside of to enrich investigation that will tackle essential social and created environmental aspects that add to minority wellbeing inequities.”
Dr. Nabaweesi comes to Meharry from the College of Arkansas for Professional medical Sciences in which she served for seven a long time as an assistant professor of pediatrics and 5 a long time as an adjunct assistant professor for wellbeing plan and administration. She also served as senior director for investigation and analysis in the Division of Range, Equity and Inclusion. Her educational track record consists of an M.D. from the Makerere College University of Medication, Uganda’s biggest and oldest community university. She also attained a Learn of General public Wellbeing with a concentration in reproductive and populace health and fitness and a doctorate in health and fitness policy management, both of those from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Faculty of General public Wellbeing.
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