Julie St. John began with TTUHSC in September 2014 and is an Associate Professor with the Department of Public Health, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, TTUHSC, Abilene campus. She has her doctorate in public health from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. Her scope of work includes: teaching; research; grant-writing; health status assessments; strategic and operational planning; continuums of care; program evaluation; community partnerships facilitation; Community Health Worker (CHW) training; and program development. Dr. St. John has served as the principal and co-investigator on numerous projects in rural and under-served areas that utilized community based participatory research approaches. Dr. St. John completed a fellowship with the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) “Rural Health Fellows Program”and is a current Rural Scholar with The F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health, TTUHSC. She also teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses, including: Introduction to Social and Behavioral Health; Community Based Methods and Practice; Global Health; Responsible Conduct of Research and Communication in Public Health, Epidemiology, and Introduction to Public Health.
Languages
- Spanish