Community Engagement Core
The EQUATE Community Engagement Core aims to optimize processes for each project and to encourage the implementation of best practices for engaging with communities and community partners.
Core Leaders
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine – Center for Health Equity Transformation
George H. Gardner, MD, Professor of Clinical Gynecology
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology (General Obstetrics and Gynecology)/Preventative Medicine
Professor, Medical Social Sciences
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Kimberly D. Harper, MSN, RN, MHA
Perinatal Neonatal Outreach Coordinator
UNC Collaborative for Maternal & Infant Health
UNC School of Medicine
Janiya M. Williams, MA, IBCLC, RLC, CLC
Program Director, Pathway 2 Human Lactation Training Program
North Carolina A&T SU (NCAT P2P)
Co-Coordinator, Doula Services
Women’s and Children’s Center, Cone Health
Core Members
Executive Director
ConnectionHealth
Associate Professor, Department of English
North Carolina A&T University
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Global and Rural Women’s Health Program
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine & Mary G. Waters Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Division of Cardiovascular Disease
Heersink School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Assistant Professor, OB/GYN – Maternal Fetal medicine
Heersink School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ramona Olvera, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, CATALYST
Wexner Medical Center
Ohio State University
