About Public Health Communications Consulting, LLC
As the founder and CEO of PHCC, LLC, my goal is simple: to work collaboratively with university-based and public health scientists to further develop and translate scientific advances to improve public health.
My current work is focused on assisting federal agencies, foundations, and leading scientific researchers in their efforts to build a better science in children’s mental health services by improving both the dissemination of evidence-based research into practice, and better integrating all stakeholders ~ including policymakers, providers and parents and youth ~ into the research process.
I help clients at all stages of the research process, from proof of concept, to writing and final editing of grants, monographs, book chapters, and other clinical trial recruitment materials. I have a firm understanding of the process of building partnerships and research teams from the bottom up (casebook chapter author, The Power of Partnerships). I have worked with clients to edit a wide range of existing client documents to support scientific endeavors from the "bench to bedside." I have also served on several NIH contract-review panels to select NIH research partners and contractors (see portfolio, CV, and NIH Biosketch).
Prior to creating PHCC, I was a Public Affairs Specialist at The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, working on public education campaigns to improve the health of infants and children, including “Milk Matters” and the Back to Sleep campaign, and widely disseminating NICHD scientific findings. Before joining NICHD, I worked as a Technology Transfer Specialist at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, negotiating research agreements with outside scientific collaborators. Before accepting that position, I completed a 2-year Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF) with the NIH Office of the Director. The PMF program, which bears the Presidential moniker, is the government's flagship leadership development program geared toward developing a highly-skilled and capable cadre of potential government leaders.
My current work is focused on assisting federal agencies, foundations, and leading scientific researchers in their efforts to build a better science in children’s mental health services by improving both the dissemination of evidence-based research into practice, and better integrating all stakeholders ~ including policymakers, providers and parents and youth ~ into the research process.
I help clients at all stages of the research process, from proof of concept, to writing and final editing of grants, monographs, book chapters, and other clinical trial recruitment materials. I have a firm understanding of the process of building partnerships and research teams from the bottom up (casebook chapter author, The Power of Partnerships). I have worked with clients to edit a wide range of existing client documents to support scientific endeavors from the "bench to bedside." I have also served on several NIH contract-review panels to select NIH research partners and contractors (see portfolio, CV, and NIH Biosketch).
Prior to creating PHCC, I was a Public Affairs Specialist at The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, working on public education campaigns to improve the health of infants and children, including “Milk Matters” and the Back to Sleep campaign, and widely disseminating NICHD scientific findings. Before joining NICHD, I worked as a Technology Transfer Specialist at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, negotiating research agreements with outside scientific collaborators. Before accepting that position, I completed a 2-year Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF) with the NIH Office of the Director. The PMF program, which bears the Presidential moniker, is the government's flagship leadership development program geared toward developing a highly-skilled and capable cadre of potential government leaders.