+$115 MILLION IN PUBLIC HEALTH EXTERNAL FUNDING

Emphasizing health disparities and health equity solutions, MSU faculty are leading community based public health research partnerships with the Flint community.

Research efforts focus on improving health in the areas of health disparities, chronic disease, and behavioral health.

From 2014 – 2022, public health researchers have been awarded over $115 million in externally sponsored grants for community research.

Funding success is the result of a strong relationship among community advocates. Partners in the community help fuel the efforts with resources and a shared commitment to improving lives.

Pictured: Bishop Bernadel Jefferson (above), a Flint community leader, and Wayne McCullough (far right), interim chair, Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health.

Helping Children Grow Healthy and Strong

Flint Water Crisis Recovery Efforts

Stress-Related Childhood Health Disparities

Working in public health and medicine is about holding the lines against sickness and disease and also holding the lines against injustice.

In Flint, our collective efforts are improving lives and strengthening families. Our passion is fueled by a relentless determination to build a better future for kids everywhere.

FORWARD-THINKING CHANGE AGENTS WITH STRENGTH IN HEALTH DISPARITIES INTERVENTIONS

Breastfeeding Health Disparities

Fresh Food Access and Nutrition

Air Pollution, Asthma, and Adverse Birth Outcomes

MSU Flint is a great place to work. They have created a positive culture incorporating community involvement. Faculty and staff authentically share the same goals of making a lasting positive impact with the students and within the Flint community.

- DR. GAYLE SHIPP

Jennifer E. Johnson PhD

Scaling Mental Health Solutions

Maji Hailemariam Debena PhD

Equitable Global Mental Health Care

Flint community members had the idea for our Department, helped to choose the topic areas of focus, and continue to help to choose and recruit our researchers. This creates a foundation of mutual trust, and leverages hundreds of thousands of people’s ideas for solutions rather than just a few.

Community participation + Community ownership + Community capacity = Sustained programs and progress

We attract great faculty because of our mission and the opportunity to do work that matters. This is a perfect place for implementation science and knowledge translation work for the greater good.

BUILDING MUTUAL TRUST FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTH SOLUTIONS

Steven Ondersma PhD

Digital Interventions for Maternal & Child Health

Robey B. Shah PhD, MS, MPH

Programs to Promote Thriving After Childhood Trauma

John Clements PhD

Health Disparities in People with Diabetes

There is simply no better place than the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health in Flint for anyone interested in community-engaged research. We are a highly collaborative department with significant support from the University and local Foundations, and a unique dedication to our relationship with the Flint community.

- DR. STEVE ONDERSMA

COLLABORATING ACROSS DISCIPLINES AT MSU AND IN HEALTH SYSTEMS

Eliminating Racism and Building Equitable Research Communities

Addressing Health Delivery Disparities for Undeserved Populations

MSU Flint provides the opportunity to do authentic Community Engaged Research. There is a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that our community partners and residents offer to our researchers. The structure supports bi-directional engagement, which makes us unique. We take a community partnered approach to advancing health equity and addressing health disparities. This is critical because the community co-develops solutions that are culturally appropriate and effective.

- DR. KENT KEY

Advancing Health Equity And Solving Hard Problems

Todd

Addressing Racial Health Disparities

Community-Partnered Anti-Racism Interventions

Mieka

Global Public Health & Leadership in Medicine

Working in Flint presents a unique opportunity to partner with community and do work that matters. There is no finer place for meaningful community-academic partnership.

- DR. TODD

LUCAS

My decision to work at MSU Flint comes full circle for me personally. As a person who was born and raised in Flint, serving the community that served me is an honor. The willingness of other MSU researchers to help me grow as a researcher and help the community move forward is the place that I longed to work for.

We are not just colleagues but family working for a common goal to better the Flint community.

- DR. JONNE McCOY WHITE

Heatherlun Uphold PhD

Making Research Accessible through Dissemination and Implementation Science

Dick Sadler PhD, MPH

Undoing Structural Racism in Urban Built Environments

SPARTANS BELIEVE TEAMWORK IS CRITICAL TO HELPING COMMUNITIES THRIVE

HIRING ALL RANKS

12-MONTH AND 9-MONTH APPOINTMENTS GENEROUS START-UP PACKAGE

Work on a Highly Successful and Rapidly Growing Multidisciplinary Team

Hiring DrPH, PhD, MD candidates

Become a part of an energetic cohort of public health faculty dedicated to academic excellence, research and instruction that improves the health and well-being of the communities around them.

Work with the Flint community addressing their greatest health concerns. Seeking candidates in the following areas:

• Community-based participatory research, implementation science, health communication, and/or health policy research

• Prevention research and/or work with families across the life span

• Intervention and health services research

• Health psychology, including social, clinical, or developmental approaches

Learn more at careers.msu.edu, job number 845966.

QUESTIONS?

EMAIL THE TEAM TO SET UP AN INFORMAL INTERVIEW.

Wayne R. McCullough, mccul161@msu.edu

Todd Lucas, lucastod@msu.edu

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