Hillary Faas
Virtual PH Professional
New York State Department of Health, Office of Public Health Practice
Fellowship Placement Coordinator, New York State Department of Health
Hillary Faas, MPH, (she/her/hers) is the Fellowship Placement Coordinator for the New York State Department of Health Fellows with the New York State Public Health Corps Fellowship Program. Hillary received her Master of Public Health from the State University of New York at Albany, School of Public Health in 2016. She started her public health career at the New York State Department of Health in the Bureau of Occupational Health and Injury Prevention as the Older Adult Fall Prevention Coordinator. Hillary joined the New York State Public Health Corps Fellowship Program in 2021 where she serves as the Fellowship Placement Coordinator for the New York State Department of Health Fellows.

Michele Foster
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Pivital Public Health Partnership
Executive Director, Pivital Public Health Partnership
Michele Foster, MPA, (she/her/hers) is the Executive Director of Pivital Public Health Partnership, a non-profit affiliation of eight county public health departments in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, including Chemung, Livingston, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, and Yates counties. Pivital focuses on improving the health and well-being of Finger Lakes residents by promoting health equity in populations who experience disparities. Michele is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the organization's operations and programs. She connects with funders and other partners to ensure the Network meets the region's needs, which they identify using community health assessments and data-tracking. Pivital Public Health Partnership is committed to utilizing a Results-Based Accountability™ approach in how they work with communities within the regional Community Health Improvement Plan workgroups to improve the quality of life for the Finger Lakes Region.

Abigail Gallucci
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New York State Department of Health Division of Epidemiology
Associate Director, Division of Epidemiology
Abigail Gallucci is the Associate Director for the Division of Epidemiology in the New York State Department of Health. Prior to her working in the NYSDOH, she had a long career at the Albany Medical Center where she worked for 33 years, 6 of them in Hospital Epidemiology. It’s at Albany Medical Center (AMC) where her love of all things Epidemiology began. She was the Director of the HIV Education and Testing program at AMC for 10 years and went on to be the Practice Manager of all the Primary Care Clinics at AMC. In 2017 Abbie went to work at the New York State Department of Health as the Associate Director of HIV Epidemiology where she ran the Surveillance Program for the Rest of State.
In March 2020, the world changed. Abbie was deployed in the field for 11 months to set up the COVID testing drive-thru sites across New York State. At the end of her Deployment she joined the Division of Epidemiology as the Associate Director. The Division is the NYS Health Commissioner’s Surveillance team for Infectious Disease throughout the state. Epidemiology, while exhausting, is thrilling and she is thankful to collaborate and continue to build this critical workforce in our everchanging world.

Morgan Greenwood
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North Country Healthy Heart Network
North Country Healthy Heart Network Program Director, Senior Fellow
Morgan Greenwood, MPH, (she/her/hers) received her bachelor’s degree in Communications from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health from the University of Colorado at Denver. She is also currently working on applying to a Doctor of Public Health focusing on Women's and Reproductive health care. Morgan’s eight-year journey in the non-profit/medical world has brought her to various roles in Upstate New York. She has held positions at Planned Parenthood of the North Country New York as a Community Engagement Coordinator and at an urgent care facility as a Patient Care Specialist during the COVID-19 pandemic, among other roles. Morgan works at the Heart Network as a Program Director/Senior Public Health Specialist and an adjunct professor at the State University of New York at Potsdam teaching Women's Health in their Public Health Department. Some of her achievements include speaking at a women's march with over 250 participants after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, creating a patient navigator/care coordination training to assist pregnant people through the stages of pregnancy, and developing and planning a conference dedicated to tobacco cessation in the Upstate and Capital region through the Heart Network, in collaboration with St. Peter's Hospital and Glens Falls Hospital.

Rachel Iverson
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New York State Department of Health/Health Research, Inc.
Associate Director, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention
Ms. Iverson is the Associate Director of the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention at the New York State Department of Health. Ms. Iverson provides leadership to the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention, including development, implementation, and dissemination of effective chronic disease control interventions and is responsible for the personnel, administrative and fiscal functions of the Division.

Along with a fantastic management team, Ms. Iverson directs the implementation of the Division’s strategic plan relevant to the work of the Division and ensure that strategies and actions are in place to achieve program and Departmental chronic disease control goals.

Ms. Iverson has thirty years of experience working in various areas of public health including HIV/AIDS, STIs, family planning and chronic disease prevention. Ms. Iverson holds a master’s degree in social policy from the State University of New York.

Molly Fleming
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New York State Association of County Health Officials
Senior Program Manager, New York State Association of County Health Officials
Molly Fleming, MPH, (she/her/hers) is a Senior Program Manager at the New York State Association of County Health Officials where she serves as the key liaison for Training and Education grant activities, with the goal of supporting the training and workforce development needs of local health departments. In her role, Molly also supports research on the New York State Association of County Health Officials and the Region 2 Public Health Training Center’s ongoing annual Enumeration Study of New York’s local public health workforce. She also plays a key role in planning content for social media and member newsletters. Molly joined the New York State Association of County Health Officials Team in 2019. Prior to joining, Molly worked as a research assistant on the Upstate KIDS Study and the Albany Infant and Mothers Study at the State University of New York at Albany, School of Public Health. She also worked in the New York State Department of Health, Office of Quality and Patient Safety on a project to improve colorectal cancer screening rates among Medicaid Managed Care enrollees. Molly received her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology in 2019, and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health in 2017, both from the University at Albany.

Heather Krasna
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Heather Krasna, PhD, EdM, MS, (she/her/hers) is Associate Dean of Career and Professional Development and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She is the co-author of 101+ Careers in Public Health, 3rd Edition, and has 25 years of experience as a career development professional with a focus on public health and mission-driven professionals. She advises several national and international public health associations and is the co-creator of PublicHealthCareers.org, the nation’s first and only career website specifically focused on governmental public health careers.

Daniel Lang
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NYSDOH
Deputy Director, Center for Environmental Health (Company) New York State Department of Health
Daniel (Dan) Lang, PG, (he/him/his) is the Deputy Director of the Center for Environmental Health at the New York State Department of Health and has worked in other leadership roles within the Center for Environmental Health since joining the New York State Department of Health in June 2017. Dan is a New York State Professional Geologist and has 30 years of experience in the environmental field, having worked as an environmental consultant for 25 years after receiving his master’s degree in Hydrogeology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a bachelor's degree in environmental science from the University of Rochester.

Eleanor Lopez
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New York State Department of Health
Fellowship Placement Coordinator
Eleanor (Ellie) Fausold Lopez, MPH, (she/her/hers) is a Fellowship Placement Coordinator with the New York State Public Health Corps Fellowship Program. In her current role, Ellie supports Fellows and Fellowship Program activities in eight Southern Tier and Central New York counties. Previously, she has worked at a New York State local health department and a Washington, DC nonprofit organization where she managed food access and food education programs. Ellie holds her Master of Public Health in Public Health Nutrition from The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.

Stephanie Mack
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NYSDOH
Senior Population Health Data Manager
Stephanie Mack is a Senior Population Health Data Manager in the Office of Science in the New York State Department of Health. She has a background in sociology and public health focusing on surveillance, program evaluation, and statistical analysis. She has served as the New York State Public Health Analyst with the Overdose Response Strategy, and as the surveillance and evaluation manager for the New York State Asthma Control Program. Currently, she is responsible for managing surveillance activities that support a broad range of public health interventions that track emerging health issues and improve population health. These areas include overdose prevention, asthma control, and maternal and child health. She works on public-facing surveillance web pages and dashboards designed to provide data at state, regional, and local levels to assist partners in conducting health needs assessments, identifying health disparities, targeting interventions, and monitoring progress.

Genevive Meredith
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Cornell University
Professor of Practice, Cornell University
Gen Meredith, DrPH, MPH, OTR is a Professor of Practice at Cornell University, Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, Associate Director of Cornell’s Master of Public Health Program, Co-Associate Director for Education with Cornell’s Center for Health Equity, and lead for Cornell’s External Public Health Education work. In these roles, Gen braids her experiences as a public health researcher and practitioner at local, clinical, state, and international levels to develop, evaluate, and improve public health systems, and to build the public health leaders of our future through teaching, capacity building, and practice-based mentoring. Gen’s areas of applied research focus on engaged pedagogical practices for workforce development; optimized public health systems utilization, with a focus on data use for decision making; community capacity building for collective impact; and access solutions to unlock the upstream health benefits of nature engagement. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gen served as a Public Health Lead with Cornell University’s response team, leading university-wide initiatives, and liaising with county and state public health officials for systems optimization.

Jamie Mowers
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NYSTEC
Principal Consultant
Jamie Mowers, MS, MSW, MPH, (she/her/hers) has nearly ten years of public health experience and is currently a Principal Change Management Consultant at NYSTEC. Jamie’s career began as a legislative intern at the New York State Association of County Health Officials before transitioning into a full-time employee, focusing on maternal child health and early intervention. In her career, Jamie has had the opportunity to support public health at the county and state level as well as in the non-profit sector working in association management. Her experience has included policy analysis, community health work, grant writing, educational event coordination, business analysis, training, communications, and finally, change management. Jamie is dually certified in change management through Kotter Inc. and Prosci and is the Vice President of the Metro and Eastern NY chapter of the Association for Change Management Professionals. Jamie holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Public Health from the State University of New York at Albany and a Master of Science in Forensic Mental Health from Sage Graduate School.