OUR TEAM
Patricia Y. Miranda-Hartsuff, PhD, MPH
Managing Partner
Dr. Patricia ("Tricia") Miranda-Hartsuff has over 20 years of community based public health experience and received her MPH and PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health (Ann Arbor, MI); she also has a BA in Sociology from Trinity University (San Antonio, TX). She is presently a tenured associate professor of public health at the Wayne State University, where she founded the Hub for Evaluation and Learning (HEAL) Detroit, has numerous publications, and her work has received funding support from the National Institutes of Health (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences; National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development), and the RAND Corporation). Formerly, Dr. Miranda-Hartsuff was tenured associate professor of public health at the Pennsylvania State University, with appointments in demography and the School of Medicine, and a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Health Scholar at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the top cancer center in the United States, and a Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) Scholar for The Annie E. Casey Foundation. Dr. Miranda-Hartsuff uses a “health in all policies” approach to examine health disparities that affect vulnerable populations, with an emphasis on health disparities in cancer control and prevention affecting immigrant and Latino populations.
Areas of Expertise and Specialization
Outcomes: Health disparities
Populations: Vulnerable populations, immigrants, Latinos
Approaches & Methodologies: Culturally responsive, racially equitable evaluation (CRREE), community-based participant research (CBPR), health in all policies (HiAP), social return on investment (SROI)
Rhonda BeLue, PhD, MS
Senior Partner
Dr. BeLue is a successful scholar in health services and policy research, with a focus on health disparities in domestic and global settings. With more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, Dr. BeLue’s research centers around understanding the role of family in health and health care, chronic disease in low- and middle-income countries and immigrant health. She writes for both public health and health management audiences, seeking to use research to inform practice and policy. Dr. BeLue brings considerable experience as a funded researcher, having been is principal or co-principal investigator for several research grants, including a federally-funded intervention study to implement and evaluate a family and school-based obesity prevention program. A noted researcher in global health, Dr. BeLue was a Fulbright Scholar who studied factors that influence diabetes management in Senegal. She currently serves as director of the Pan-University Network for Global Health, an academic organization that bridges researchers from more than 10 universities across the globe.
Latrice Pischon, PhD, MPH
Consulting Partner
Latrice C. Pichon, PhD, MPH, CHES is an Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Memphis School of Public Health. She completed her PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Health Behavior from the Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. Her program of research centers around the application of community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches to improving the health of Black Americans by reducing racial disparities in HIV. She has received extensive postdoctoral training in the application of CBPR during her fellowship with the Kellogg Health Scholars Program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Mark Sciegaj, PhD, MPH
Consulting Partner
Dr. Mark Sciegaj, Ph.D., M.P.H. has 30 years of community based health services experience, beginning with initiatives focusing on the reduction of infant mortality in Georgia in the late 1980s to a current focus on improving community based long-term services and supports. He received his MPH from Emory (Health Administration) and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University (Social Policy). He is currently a Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the area of health services research and aging with extensive experience in implementation and evaluation studies and primary data collection projects. Dr. Sciegaj has received funding from the Administration for Community Living, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Retirement Research Foundation, among others. Notable projects include examining the impact of managed long-term services and supports on participant-directed services, a national survey of Area Agencies on Aging on workforce competencies, a nine-state demonstration project infusing social work curriculum with participant-directed and person-centered long-term services and supports content, and guiding the Administration on Community Living’s effort with 15 other federal agencies and 15 national professional organizations on workforce development issues, including the creation of long-term services and support worker competencies.
Areas of Expertise and Specialization
Outcomes: Health disparities
Populations: Vulnerable populations, elders, persons with disabilities
Rich Jackson, PhD
Senior Advising Partner
Dr. Jackson is an Endocrinologist and founder of Grassroots Diabetes, a non-profit organization focused on providing hope and diabetes education in underserved communities around the world, He has extensive knowledge in chronic disease, and a vested interest in making measurable change within communities. In particular, he has experience with training and educating both people with diabetes, community health workers, and other professionals. Dr. Jackson has an extensive background in the development and successful implementation of chronic disease education programs. More specifically, he developed the diabetes education program “On the Road” which received an American Diabetes Association Promising Practice Award of Excellence in 2009 and received a first-round CMS Innovation Award of $4.9 million in 2012.
Kristyna Dell, MSMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist
Kristyna Dell, MSMFT is a marriage and family therapist and certified Prepare-Enrich Facilitator. She has a masters of science in marriage and family therapy from Edgewood College Madison and bachelor of arts in psychology and women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Kristyna has over fifteen years of experience in counseling in areas of behavioral health, including homeless and at-risk populations as well as crisis counseling for youth and families. For more than a decade, Kristyna has led individuals and groups as a certified Prepare-Enrich facilitator, in the topics of conflict resolution, financial management, relationship roles, spiritual beliefs and marriage expectations. She resides in Chelsea, Michigan with her husband Jason and their three small children.