New Programming by New Staff...

with a Familiar Face

I am delighted to announce that alum Nancy Willard, MPH began her tenure with HBHE early this year. Nancy manages HBHE’s Field Placement Program, e-Portfolio Program, and Alumni relations and she is the instructor for the newly-developed HBHE Capstone course. 

She graduated from our program in 2009 and was one of a small cohort of HBHE students to co-author a grant to fund their field placements in Latin America. Nancy completed her field placement in Panama City, Panama, where she wrote a grant that funded housing for low income families coming from rural areas for organ transplant. During her placement, she also facilitated a PhotoVoice project, which gained the audience of and inspired action from the national government. 

During her masters program, she worked as a Health Educator and Project Coordinator of the community health worker program at Packard Health. Since then, she has been a Clinical Research Coordinator for telemedicine research at the Department of Veterans Affairs as well as a Behavioral Scientist and Content Writer for University of Michigan’s Center for Health Communications Research.  

Nancy brings over 8 years of experience in health behavior intervention development, research, and implementation. In her short time with us, she has guided students into over 100 masters-level field placements worldwide, analyzed and presented on key data from faculty and student surveys to inform department-level curricular development and programming, and developed promising new curricula for the masters student Capstone and HBHE e-Portfolio Programs. We are thrilled to have her on our team!

~Marc Zimmerman, Chair