Courtni Jeffers, M.S., M.P.H., Ed.D.

I have a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, a Master of Public Health from George Washington University, and a Doctorate in Education. 
In addition to teaching in the Graduate Programs of Public Health at UNE, I teach in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University and facilitate narrative medicine workshops for healthcare systems and clinics in Maine. 
My passions lie at the intersection of population health and individual well-being. My collaboration and work aim to reflect the ethical responsibility to both the content and the context of individual and community stories to reduce health disparities and further health equity. My expertise lies in, storytelling, panel moderation, social drivers of health, social marketing, program evaluation, narrative competency, health literacy, and equipping others to give and receive accounts of self to further individual and community healing through narrative and cultural humility. I believe strongly in the power of building reciprocal sustainable relationships and the re-balancing of the power dynamics in higher education through the co-construction of learning spaces. 

I grew up in Indiana, spent some time living in NYC, and am now living in and loving Maine.