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Courtni Jeffers, MS, MPH, Ed.D.(c)

Assistant Director Thesis Advising, Graduate Programs in Public Health

Location

Innovation Hall
Portland Campus

I have an Master of Science in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, an Master of Public Health from The George Washington University. I am currently a doctoral candidate in the UNE Ed.D. program. In addition to teaching in the Graduate Programs of Public Health at UNE I teach in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University as well as facilitating narrative medicine workshops for healthcare systems and clinics in Maine. 

My passions lie at the intersection of population health and individual well-being and my collaboration and work aims to reflect the ethical responsibility to both the content and the context of individual and community stories. My expertise lies in social marketing, program planning and evaluation, narrative competency, health literacy, and equipping others to give and receive accounts of self in order to further individual and community healing through narrative and cultural humility.

Credentials

Education

Doctor of Education
University of New England
2024
Master of Public Health
George Washington University
2019
Master of Science in Narrative Medicine
Columbia University
2017
Bachelor of Arts in Medical Humanities
Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis
2015
Bachelor of Arts in Biology
Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis
2015

Expertise

  • Collaborative research
  • Communications
  • Data analysis
  • Evaluation design
  • Evaluation research
  • Health behavior models
  • Health disparities
  • Health education
  • Health literacy
  • Health program evaluation
  • Health promotion
  • Humanities
  • Marketing
  • Narrative intervention
  • Population health
  • Public health
  • Public health administration
  • Public health ethics
  • Public health management
  • Public health research
  • Public health systems
  • Qualitative research
  • Quantitative research

Board Certifications and Licenses

CITI Training