Dr. Rhodes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Science and Health Policy. His research focuses on health promotion and disease prevention among sexual and gender minorities, Latinx persons, and other traditionally marginalized populations using authentic approaches to community-engaged research, including CBPR, community capacity development, and empowerment. His research explores health disparities, sexual health, and immigration policy. Dr. Rhodes has extensive experience working with Latinx communities and other communities of color; adolescents; persons living with HIV; gay and bisexual men; other men who have sex with men (MSM); and transgender persons. He currently has research studies in the United States and Central America.

Dr. Daniel is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine.  Dr. Daniel also holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Social Science and Health Policy.  Her research focuses on risk and trajectories associated with suicidal behavior, interventions for individuals at risk for suicidal behavior, school-based health and mental health interventions with an emphasis on reducing health disparities and increasing access to quality care, and familial, social, and environmental risk and protective factors as they relate to parent well-being and child and adolescent emotional and behavioral development. Dr. Daniel has extensive expertise in CPBR approaches, as well as longitudinal and treatment development research methodologies with both clinical and community samples.  Dr. Daniel is a leader in school-based health collaborations at local, state, and national levels.  She currently serves as the Executive Director for the School Health Alliance for Forsyth County (SHA), a partner and supporting organization for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in NC.  The SHA operates school-based health centers and provides health, mental health, and nutrition services to students within the local school district.  

Dr. Skelton is a Professor of Pediatrics, and serves as Director of the Brenner FIT® (Families In Training) Program, an interdisciplinary pediatric obesity treatment, prevention, research, and education program within Brenner Children’s Hospital. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, is an affiliate of the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, and is a member of the Center for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism and the Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research has focused on family-based treatment of children with obesity. He led the first in-depth investigation of attrition from pediatric weight management, with innovative focus on the influence of patient satisfaction and family function, using patient-centered approaches and family theory to explore this phenomenon. He was the first to show the prevalence of severe obesity in children and adolescents; with collaborators, he has better defined and classified severe obesity in children, demonstrating the increasing prevalence in the U.S. and the significantly increased cardiometabolic risk factors. He has active research collaborations with community organizations focused on nutrition and obesity. He and the Brenner FIT® Program have an active partnership with the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina researching child and family cooking.

Ms. Keena Moore is a Certified Health Education Specialist serving as the Administrator for the Program in Community-Engaged Research. She is interested in reducing health disparities in the community that she lives, works, and worships. Keena is skilled in faith-based outreach and pedagogy. Her work has focused on childhood obesity, breast health, and the developmentally disabled. Keena works to serve and educate others about the unique assets and opportunities facing historically marginalized communities. She is passionate about increasing health equity.

 

 

Mr. Isaiah Randall is a Certified Health Education Specialist serving as the Project Manager I for the Program in Community-Engaged Research. His interests include addressing and reducing health disparities, health policy, LGBTQ health, minority health, and men’s health.