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OUR INITIATIVES
 
 
 
 
HEALTH PROMOTION & DISEASE PREVENTION
 
Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
Combating Childhood & Adolescent Obesity
Link to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity: www.reversechildhoodobesity.org

State Employee Health Risk Assessments & Wellness Strategy

Vehicular Safety

 
 
HEALTH CARE FINANCING
 
ARHealthNetworks
State Coverage Institute
Governor's  Roundtable on Health Care
Navigating the Landscape of Health Care (2005-2015)
 
 
ACCESS TO QUALITY CARE
 

State Employee Health Care Quality and Health Disparities

Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
 
 
HEALTH DATA TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
 
Data Resources
Informing the Legislative Process
Multiple State Integrated Data
   
  ACHI Staff
 

                           

                                       

 

Joseph W. Thompson, MD, MPH                       Paula Card-Higginson, BA, ELS

Director                                                           Associate Director

Arkansas Surgeon General                               Chief Operating Officer

Biography                                                          Biography

 

 

                        

                          

 George (Ed) Fryer, PhD           Amy Rossi, LCSW              Kevin W. Ryan, JD, MA

Associate Director                   Associate Director             Associate Director

Data                                        Community Relations        Law and Legal Policy

Biography                                  Biography                           Biography

 

                                 

 

Debbie Bertelin - Executive Assistant

Jana Casteel, MHSA - Fiscal Officer

Jimmy Cotton - Management Information Systems Specialist

Phil Deloney - Senior Associate

Shelia Dodson, MA, BA - Research Assistant, RWJF Center

Carole Garner, MPH, RD, LD - Team Lead, RWJF Center

Rhonda Hill, MPH - Prevention Specialist

Stephanie Jackson - Executive Assistant

Tionna Jenkins, MPH - Research Associate, RWJF Center

Michelle Justus, MS - Research Associate

Arlo Kahn, MD - Advisor

Chaitanya Katterapalli, MS - Senior Computer Specialist

Stephen Lein - Project Director

Suzanne McCarthy, MS, MPH - Founding Senior Associate, Director of

   Government Relations

Candice McNair - Assistant Business Manager

Thomas J. Miyoshi, MSW - Senior Data Analyst

Kenley Money - Data Governance Manager

Jennifer Pagan, Management Project Analyst

Debra Pate - Communications Specialist

Dilan Pinidiya, MEd, MS - Programmer

Kimara Randolph, BA, PHR, CHAA - Meeting and Event Coordinator

Shirley Vanderslice, CPC, CTTS - Management Project Analyst

Dionne Ware - Research Assistant

Karen Wooten-Wood - Executive Assistant

 

 

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