RENEE BRANCH CANADY, PhD,

Mpa

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MSU MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM AND CEO FOR THE MICHIGAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE

Dr. Canady is highly influential in broadening the discussion of health equity and social justice while serving on numerous national boards, review panels, and advisory groups. She serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings Scientific Advisory Group and is president of the Boards of the National Network of Public Health Institutes and the Council for Black Health. She was appointed by Gov. Whitmer to the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force for Racial Disparities and is a co-lead for their Centering Equity Work-group. Canady developed a research trajectory in health disparities and health inequities, emphasizing the social context of pregnancy experiences and outcomes in African American women. She applies this expertise in projects such as Advancing Birth Equity through Systems Change and as a member of the Advisory Board of Birth Detroit, a birth center led by Black women.