CSHO's Staff

Agnes Hinton has been Co-director of CSHO since its establishment in 1998. She helped create the Community Health Advisor program in Mississippi, and served as the first director of the Community Health Advisor Network, which has expanded the program into seven states or territories. Agnes also helped expand the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker program into Mississippi, with plans to expand into Louisiana. As co-principal investigator of the Deep South Network for Cancer Control, Agnes helped develop the Community Health Advisor as Research Partners training curriculum and implement it in 11 Mississippi sites, with more in process. Agnes also serves as associate professor in the Center for Community Health at The University of Southern Mississippi. Agnes is a registered dietitian with the American Dietetic Association; and a licensed nutritionist with the Mississippi State Department of Health. She earned her doctorate in public health nutrition from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and her master of science in public health nutrition from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
(601) 266-5859, Agnes.Hinton@usm.edu

Susan L. Mayfield-Johnson currently serves as the Director of Education and Training for the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach, at The University of Southern Mississippi. She has been working in the field of community health for ten years where her emphasis has been with underserved communities and community health workers. She holds a PhD in Adult Education, a Masters of Public Health with an emphasis in health education, and a Bachelors of Arts in American Studies with an emphasis on 19th-Century American Literature and History. A Certified Health Education Specialist, she is also Adjunct Faculty for the Department of Community Health.
(601) 266-6266, Susan.Johnson@usm.edu

Rebekah Young currently serves as Program Specialist for the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach. She holds a Masters of Public Health with a dual emphasis in Health Education and Epidemiology/Biostatatistics. She also holds a Bachelors degree in Biological Science.
(601) 266-5388, Rebekah.Young@usm.edu

Sara Pollock Hoverter is a staff attorney and adjunct professor at the Harrison Institute for Public Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Her area of concentration is health policy, including state health insurance reform strategies, ERISA, Medicaid, international tobacco control, and workforce development policies for the frontline workforce of community health workers. Her past positions have included jobs at the National Partnership for Women and Families, the Center for Law and the Public’s Health, and the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. She also teaches an undergraduate course at Georgetown University in the Women’s Studies Department entitled Women and the Law. Her education includes a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from Georgetown University, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University.
(202) 662-4233, smp32@law.georgetown.edu

Jacqueline R. Scott currently serves as Co-director for the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach, a part of the Harrison Institute for Public Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Law Center. Jackie concentrates her work in the policy and legislative areas of Children and Family Law, Health Law, and Race and Gender Equity. She began her career in policy work serving as lobbyist and legislative counsel for a major civil liberties/civil rights organization in Maryland. Immediately prior to coming to the Center she served as Senior Research Associate at the Finance Project, a national public policy think tank established to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of public financing for education and other children’s services. Previously, she served as a policy advisor in the governor and lieutenant governor’s offices in the state of Maryland, where she advised on issues ranging from early childhood development to juvenile justice, and other children-, youth-, and family-related matters. Jackie holds a dual bachelor of arts degree in government and sociology from Georgetown University and a juris doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center.
(202) 662-4229, jbs@law.georgetown.edu

CSHO's Advisory Committee, 1998 - 2006

Ms. Gail Ballester
Project Director
Massachusetts Community Health Worker Network Project
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
250 Washington Street, 5th floor
Boston, MA 02108

Mr. Robert Bell
Executive Director
Delta Health Ventures
119 S. Theobald, Suite 105
Greenville, MS 38701

Ms. Veronica Bena
Vice President, National Lay Health Workers/Promotores Association
WAHEC
P.O. Box 5715
Yuma, AZ 85366

Ms. Kaye Bender
Deputy State Health Officer
Mississippi State Department of Health
P.O. Box 1700
Jackson, MS 39219

Ms. Catherine Bodkin
Program Consultant
Virginia Dept. of Health--Resource Mothers
P.O. Box 2448
Richmond, VA 23219-2448

Dr. J. Nell Brownstein
Health Education Specialist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4770 Buford Hwy, NE
Mailstop K-47
Atlanta, GA 30341-3724

Ms. Wendy Coppage
Community Health Worker
c/o Southeast Field Services
Multnomah County Health Dept.
3653 SE 34th Avenue
Portland, OR 97202

Dr. Martha Davis
Executive Director
Mallory Community Health Center
17280 Highway 17 South
Lexington, MS 39095-0479

Ms. Ramona Dillard
Vice President
National Association of Community Health Representatives (NACHR)
Laguna CHR Program
Post Office Box 194
Laguna, NM 87026

Mr. Durrell Fox
Outreach Services Coordinator
Boston Happens
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Dr. Julius Goepp
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Strong Memorial Hospital
601 Elmwood Avenue
Rochester, NY 14642

Ms. Teresa Hines
Associate Director
HETCAT, MSC 7787
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229-3900

Ms. Dwyan Monroe
President, Community Outreach Worker Assoc. of Maryland
Johns Hopkins University
525 North Wolfe Street
Room 402
Baltimore, MD 21205

Ms. Eva M. Moya
Healthy Border 2010 Program Manager
United States-Mexico Border Health Commission
201 Main Dr., Suite 1616
El Paso, TX 79901

Ms. Aminyah Muhammad-M’Backe
Director
MELD/EvenStart
1200 Perry Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017

Ms. Cheryl Mulder
Community Health Worker II
Parent to Parent Program
75 Sheldon Blvd. S.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Mr. Christopher Nye
Executive Director
Virginia Center for Health Outreach
College of Integrated Science and Technology
MSC 4001
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807

Ms. Carol Payne
HUD Community Builder Fellow
U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
10 South Howard Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Mr. Robert Pugh
Executive Director
Mississippi Primary Health Care Association
P.O. Box 3528
Jackson, MS 39207-3538

Dr. Alfio Rausa
Health Officer
Delta Hills Public Health District III
701 Yalobusha Street
Greenwood, MS 38930

Ms. Teresa Rios
Chair, APHA CHW SPIG
9000 N. Lumbard Street, 2nd Floor
Portland, OR 97203

Ms. Lee Rosenthal
Evaluation Consultant
The University of Arizona Rural Health Office
2250 E. 8th Street
Tucson, AZ 85719

Dr. Aaron Shirley
Executive Director
Jackson Medical Mall
350 N. Woodrow Wilson
Suite 615
Jackson, MS 39213

Ms. Glenda Sutherland
Director of Care-a-Van
St. Dominic Health Services
969 Lakeland Drive
Jackson, MS 39216-4602

Ms. Cindy Shin Yu Tsai
Director of Training
Community Health Works of San Francisco
250 Addison Street, Suite 112
Berkeley, California 94702

Ms. Lorenza Zuniga
Community Health Worker
Border Health Office
Texas Tech University Health Service Center at El Paso
4801 Alberta Ave.
RM C-37
El Paso, TX 79905