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Haydee Encarnacion-Garcia
Professor of Public Health
Education
- PhD, Health Behavior, Indiana University
- MS, Health Promotion, Indiana University
- MPH, Epidemiology, University of Puerto Rico
- BS, Health Education, University of Puerto Rico
Career Highlights
I have over 20 years of experience working in public health practice settings for over twenty years, including federal government (HHS), academia, private sector, and community-based organizations. I have administered health science programs in higher education, and have worked for public health workforce development focusing on enhancing public health services to reduce health disparities. As a public health researcher, my scholarly work focuses on health literacy as a social determinant of health.
Featured Work
I have developed community curricula and toolkits to train community health workers (Promotoras de Salud). In 2021, I was a grant recipient of the HRSA Northeast Indiana Program with the project entitled: "Health Literacy Attainment and Community Health Workers (Promotoras de Salud): A Public Health Grassroots Intervention."
Biography
I was the Program Director and Associate Professor of the Indiana Wesleyan University, Graduate Program in Public Health (from July 2015 until June 2023).
I served as a Public Health Analyst (2004-2013) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Chicago Regional Office. I was assigned as a state leader for Indiana and Ohio and community-based programs in the Chicago area. I served as HHS’s regional liaison in establishing strong collaboration with statewide stakeholders, such as the State’s Primary Care Office. I worked directly with HRSA-university grantees and community health centers (Section 330 Public Health Act) to ensure compliance with the USDHHS Bureaus' requirements. The Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program mainly implements workforce development educational activities to expose pre-college students from diverse ethnic backgrounds to primary care and public health disciplines.
I served as a Dean and Associate Professor of the School of Health Sciences in one of Puerto Rico’s community college institutions. I worked as a Research Associate and Community Prevention Specialist at the IU School of Public Health in Bloomington. I am a Certified Health Educator Specialist (CHES), serving on numerous diversity/inclusion committees at community and university levels, as well as, a member of the Peer Corps of the Higher Learning Commission.