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Dr. Tomaro is a consultant to a number of organizations, including the Water Institute at UNC.
Previously, Dr. Tomaro served as Director of Health for the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland for 18 years. He was Senior International Health Policy Program Analyst for the Center for International Development at the Research Triangle Institute in RTP (now RTI International), where he was on assignment to the Office of Health and Nutrition of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). During that time he also served as acting chief of the Division of Environmental Health, Office of Health and Nutrition, USAID and was official chief the following year.Β Dr. Tomaro was also formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration (now HPM).
Susan Ennett, PhD,Β is a public health researcher, teacher, mentor and vice chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Health Behavior. Honored as the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring in 2015, she said βMy goal is to encourage students to explore and develop their interests while thinking critically, applying rigorous standards and always questioning their own assumptions.β She is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior.
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Ennet's research focuses on how social contexts, including family, peers, schools, and neighborhoods, interrelate in promoting and constraining health risk behaviors over the early life course. Recent research has explored the social contexts of health behaviors related toΒ youth alcohol and tobacco use as well as prevention of risky health behaviorsΒ through family-based programs and school policies.
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She teaches an elective on adolescent health risk behaviors and instructs in the required research methods course for doctoral students.
Theresa Stenersen is the Regional Child Care Nurse Consultant for the western part of North Carolina. She is a native of western NC and completed her nursing degree at Western Carolina University in 1992.
Since 2013, she has provided coaching support to Child Care Health Consultants and the agencies that support them in the western region of NC. She also provides health and safety in child care expertise to the North Carolina Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center.
Manish Kumar, Ph.D., MPH, MSc. has about 20 years of global and country-level experience in global health, health information systems (HIS), digital health, and health systems, especially in PEPFAR priority countries. Kumar has provided research and evaluation, strategic, technical, and managerial services for projects/programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States Presidentβs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office/United Kingdom, the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has planned, implemented, managed and evaluated HIS, health information exchange, digital health, health informatics, and capacity building projects at global, regional, national, and sub-national levels. He has co-led the development of maturity model based tools such as the HIS Stages of Continuous Improvement (in collaboration with CDC) and the HIS interoperability maturity toolkit in addition to serving as an expert for maturity model activities of the WHO, USAID, PEPFAR and other donors. Kumar has provided technical advice to advance the digital health/HIS efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO), in Geneva and its regional offices in the Americas, Africa, Eastern Mediterranean Region and Europe, as well as to the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). He has implemented and assessed global digital goods such as the DHIS 2 and iHRIS.Β
Currently, Kumar is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the TB Data, Impact Assessment and Communications Hub project, funded by USAID, that strengthens collection, analysis, and use of tuberculosis data and features an interactive data hub by country and a repository of best practices for methods and approaches. In addition, he is also the PI for the PMI Measure Malaria project, funded by the U.S. Presidentβs Malaria Initiative and USAID, that strengthens the country capacity to analyze and use malaria health data and manage health information systems to serve malaria needs and develop tools, methods, and share knowledge.
Kumar is also the PI for a PATH led and PEPFAR/CDC funded Technical Assistance Platform project (2020-2025) and provides research, monitoring and evaluation, implementation, capacity building, and technical assistance support for HIS governance, workforce development, and health information exchange activities. He is also the PI and Senior Technical Specialist- Health Systems Strengthening for the PATH funded DATIM Support and Maturity Model project supporting governments and implementing partners in 50+ countries. Kumar is a core member of the PEPFAR-Ministry of Health data alignment team that supports indicator mapping, facility harmonization and data import activities in 23 PEPFAR priority countries since 2017. This project included conducting a landscape analysis of health information exchange in low-resource settings with funding support from Microsoft Corporation. He is involved in global maturity model efforts involving WHO/PAHO, PEPFAR, and USAID across various disease domains such as HIV, Malaria and TB. He is also the co-chair of the policy sub-group of the Health Information Exchange Task Force, established by the Africa CDC. He led the development of A Navigator for Digital Health Capability Models that allows stakeholders to select and use an assessment tool that aligns with their organizational digital health goals and context.
As the Senior Technical Specialist-Health System Strengthening in the USAID-MEASURE Evaluation project (June 2015-May 2020), Kumar provided research, and technical assistance to strengthen HIS, and both developed and implemented maturity model assessments in collaboration with the Digital Health Interoperability Working Group of the Health Data Collaborative (HDC) and the CDC. He planned and conducted trainings, established, and led data exchange communities of practice, and supported PEPFAR-Ministry of Health data alignment initiative in 23 countries while working closely with country teams. As an adjunct faculty in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Kumar offers mentorship and coaching services to students and faculty for their global health research and practice efforts.
He was awarded a certificate of appreciation from PEPFAR Ambassador for his work on DATIM and from the US Department of State for the successful delivery of systems and data use training to 500 program staff in the field. He has published several research papers in reputed journals such as the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association and serves as an expert reviewer for global health journals.
Excited about innovating practical and theoretically sound methods that address challenges in biomedical fields, Dr. Garcia has built a strong interdisciplinary research agenda. It involves national and international collaborations with neuroscientists and biologists, high-impact learning opportunities for students, and service work that promotes a future of diverse (bio)statisticians. Her research focuses on extracting maximal information from large, highly correlated data structures and has led to scientific discoveries in neurodegenerative diseases and the gut microbiome. Her teaching integrates these research activities with interactive, learner-centered projects that promote critical thinking. Her leadership in service activities involves promoting the success of underrepresented groups in (bio)statistics and providing her professional expertise regionally and internationally.
Dr. Garcia's research has attracted over $900,000 in competitive funding as Principal Investigator including grants from the NIH National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and Huntington's Disease Society of America. She publishes at a rate of 3 papers per year in top statistics journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Applied Statistics, and Bioinformatics. Her work is cited (inter)nationally by scholars in United States, France, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, among others. She has earned competitive awards including the 2017-2018 NINDS Mentoring Institute for Neuroscience Diversity Scholars Fellowship; a fully-funded, visiting scholar invitation to the University of Sydney in 2012; and the 2011 American Statistical Association Gertrude M. Cox Award (awarded to two of 1200 applicants in North America). She has presented in over 35 invited department seminars and invited (inter)national conference sessions (rate of 5 per year).
Her research innovates new statistical methods that solve important neuroscience and biomedical problems and advances the underlying theory of those methods. Her work has contributed to four exciting areas: prediction models, model selection for high-dimensional data, regression models with measurement error, mean-covariance modeling for longitudinal data.
Betsy Sleath, PhD is the George H. Cocolas Distinguished Professor and the Regional Associate Dean for Eastern North Carolina, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She is also director of the Child and Adolescent Health program at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
She has been principal investigator on over 25 grants and contracts and has over 150 peer-reviewed publications. Her work has been funded by several National Institute of Health agencies, the Bayer Institute for Health Communication, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Her work focuses on improving provider-patient communication about medications and improving patient adherence to medications through educational interventions.
She is on the editorial boards of Patient Education and Counseling and the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. She served as chair of the Social and Administrative Sciences Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
She was an original member of the Food and Drug Administrationβs (FDA) risk communication expert advisory committee and continues to serve as a guest member on the committee at different points in time.
Dr Jianwen Cai is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics.
Dr. Cai was trained as a biostatistician and has more than 20 years of experience in interdisciplinary collaborative research and in developing statistical methods for epidemiologic and observational studies. She has collaborated on numerous projects including cardiovascular disease research, cancer research, asthma research, environmental research, obesity research and community-based participatory research.
In addition to her collaborative and coordinating center experience, she has had four statistical methods grants funded by NHLBI, for which she served as the Principal Investigator. She has also served on WHI OSMB, Protocol Review Committee (PRC) for the NIH Heart Failure Network and DSMB for the HT Cervix trial.
Dr. Cai has a long history of mentoring students and post-doctoral fellows; she has been the major adviser for 22 pre-doctoral fellows, 18 Masterβs students, and six post-doctoral fellows.
