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Courtni Jeffers, MS, MPH, Ed.D.

She/her/hers
Assistant Director Thesis Advising, Graduate Programs in Public Health
Assistant Clinical Professor, Graduate Programs in Public Health

Location

Innovation Hall
Portland Campus for the Health Sciences
Eligible for Student Opportunities

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.  

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

Awards and Accolades

  • Moderator, President's Forum, Maine's Homelessness Crisis (2024)
  • Maine Ideas Challenge, Social Innovation Award (2022)
  • Post-Graduate Fellow, Center for Social Difference, Columbia University (2017)

Expertise

  • Academic advising
  • Adult learning
  • Collaborative research
  • Communications
  • Data analysis
  • Economic justice
  • Environmental justice
  • Evaluation design
  • Evaluation research
  • Facilitation
  • Health behavior models
  • Health disparities
  • Health education
  • Health literacy
  • Health program evaluation
  • Health promotion
  • Humanities
  • Impact evaluation
  • Learning strategies
  • Marketing
  • Narrative intervention
  • Online learning
  • Organizational leadership
  • Participatory research
  • Patient centered care
  • Population health
  • Public health
  • Public health ethics
  • Public health management
  • Public health research
  • Public health systems
  • Qualitative research
  • Quantitative research

Board Certifications and Licenses

CITI Training

Post-Doctoral Training

Certificate in Compassionate Leadership