Jeffrey Taylor, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Central Administration
Phone: (517) 324-8302
Email: jtaylor@mphi.org

Jeffrey Taylor, Ph.D., has served as MPHI’s executive director since 1994. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle, and earned his doctorate at Michigan State University. Dr. Taylor is a Michigan Association of Health Plans Foundation board member and participates on advisory committees for the General Preventive Medicine Residency Program (University of Michigan) and the Area Health Education Center (Wayne State University). He has served on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation panel at the National Academy of Sciences-Institute of Medicine, which made recommendations for establishing a national accreditation program for state and local governmental health agencies. He has also served on additional national panels, one focused on expanding and communicating the role of hospitals in public health, and a second focused on establishing governance structures for accrediting state and local health agencies. He is also past president and a founding board member of the National Network of Public Health Institutes.

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Cynthia Cameron, Ph.D
Director of Corporate Planning
Central Administration
Phone: (517) 324-8315
Email: ccameron@mphi.org

After 13 years as director of the Systems Reform program, Dr. Cameron was dually appointed to director of Corporate Planning. In this capacity, she works with the Board of Directors and staff on strategic planning and training. Dr. Cameron also serves on the board of the National Network of Public Health Institutes. She received her Ph.D. in family ecology with a cognate in public policy analysis from Michigan State University.

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Heather White
Director of Human Resources
Central Administration
Phone: (517) 324-8309
Email: hwhite@mphi.org

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Limin Kinsey
Controller/Director of Finance & Contracts
Central Administration
Phone: (517) 324-8350
Email: lkinsey@mphi.org

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Sally Hiner
Director of Research Integrity and Institutional Review Board
Central Administration
Phone: (517) 324-7387
Email: shiner@mphi.org

Ms. Hiner has a long history of service as a panel member of both MPHI’s Institutional Review Board and Michigan State University’s Community Research Institutional Review Board. Since 2008, she has served as director of Research Integrity, and is responsible for the daily operations of the Office of Research Integrity and Quality Assurance. In addition to human subjects’ research protection, the office provides oversight and guidance to ensure compliance with regulations, policy, and procedure concerning privacy, confidentiality, data and research.

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May Yassine, Ph.D.
Program Director
Cancer Control Services Program
Phone: (517) 324-7308
Email: myassine@mphi.org

May Darwish-Yassine, Ph.D. has more than 20 years of experience designing epidemiological research and evaluation studies. Dr. Yassine has expertise in developing and integrating surveillance data to portray disease burden in populations. Her work supports evidence-based public health planning at the state level, and initiatives such as the Michigan Cancer Consortium and Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs. She has a special interest in analyzing disparity in disease outcomes and behavioral risk factors across population groups. Previous positions include directing the National Cancer Institute’s Data-Based Cancer Intervention Research Program at the Indiana State Department of Health and researching the epidemiology of type II diabetes mellitus during post-doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. She has taught chronic disease epidemiology, epidemiological principles and methods, and social medicine. Dr. Yassine received her Ph.D. in epidemiologic science from the University of Michigan, with a specialty in chronic disease. She also earned a master’s degree in epidemiology and a bachelor’s in environmental health from the American University of Beirut.

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Shannon Stotenbur Wing, MSW
Program Director
Center for Child and Family Health
Phone: (517) 324-7353
Email: swing@mphi.org

Program Director Shannon Stotenbur-Wing, M.S.W., has worked in the area of child welfare/human services for more than 15 years. Her experience includes state-level child welfare policy and child abuse investigations within the Department of Human Services. Ms. Stotenbur-Wing has extensive experience training professionals on child abuse and maltreatment, child death scene investigation, collaborative child abuse investigations, infant and child mortality, and community outreach and prevention. She earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice at Ferris State University and a master’s degree in clinical social work with a specialty in child welfare at Michigan State University.

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Clare Tanner, Ph.D.
Program Director
Center for Data Management and Translational Research
Phone: (517) 324-7381
Email: ctanner@mphi.org

Dr. Tanner received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. She has been with MPHI since 1999, and has served in a leadership role since 2001. Dr. Tanner has extensive experience in coordinating quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation projects across multiple sites. Skills include: facilitation of objectives and methods among researchers at multiple universities and departments; assessing needs and drafting policy recommendations across public service systems; research and sampling design; writing survey questions; assessing data needs based on existing resources, reliability and validity assessment; and statistical analysis. Dr. Tanner’s experience in database management includes collecting data from different sources, standardizing and reformatting data, and building database structures. Projects include design of an ongoing data collection and reporting system on primary care services, financial indicators, and quality indicators across safety-net primary care health centers nationwide, funded by W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. A project funded by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration involves collection and standardization of electronic billing data from a sample of community health centers, and serves as a forum for standardization and national reporting of quality indicators. In the public service arena, Dr. Tanner facilitated a consensus process, including multiple state and local agencies, private providers and consumers, to assess the long-term care system for individuals with traumatic brain injury.

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Christopher Wojcik, MPH
Associate Director
Center for Data Management and Translational Research
Phone: (517) 324-8394
Email: cwojcik@mphi.org

Mr. Wojcik received a master’s degree in public health with a concentration in environmental health and epidemiology in 1996 from the University of Michigan. He has been with MPHI since 1997, and currently serves as associate director of the Center for Data Management & Translational Research. Mr. Wojcik has served in a variety of roles at MPHI, including senior data analyst on data-intensive projects at federal, state, and local levels. He has also played an integral role in many research and evaluation projects, providing expertise in project management, sample design, survey development, and data collection and management.

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Julia Heany, Ph.D.
Program Director
Center for Healthy Communities
Phone: (517) 324-7349
Email: jheany@mphi.org

Program Director Julia Heany, Ph.D., provides scientific, fiscal, and managerial oversight of the Center for Healthy Communities. She completed her doctorate in community psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2005. She is principal investigator on several studies and projects, including: evaluation of Michigan’s Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting, funded by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration; Community Health Needs Assessment and Health Improvement Planning for Kent County, MI; Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Communities Organized to Respond and Evaluate, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Zero to Three Secondary Prevention Evaluation. Research interests include identifying ways that communities can support family health and wellbeing by studying interconnections between multiple levels of the human ecological context. She has worked in the areas of law enforcement’s response to violence against women, prevention of child maltreatment, and child and family policy. Expertise includes empowerment evaluation and community-based research using multi-method, multi-level design. She works with clients and partners to shape research and evaluation projects, designs research and evaluation plans, designs instruments and data collection procedures, manages data collection, conducts statistical analyses, and disseminates results. Dr. Heany has also taught higher education courses, including Psychology of Women, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, and Introduction to Psychology.

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Elaine Beane, Ph.D.
Senior Program Director
Center for Nursing Workforce & Policy
Phone: (517) 324-8373
Email: ebeane@mphi.org

Dr. Beane has more than 35 years of public health-related experience in teaching, project management, and development. She has been with MPHI since 1990, and built and directed the first MPHI unit with data systems capacity. She also served as director of programs and operations for five years, and was responsible for oversight and quality assurance for all programs, as well as management of human resources, operations, and technology systems. Dr. Beane currently consults and provides technical assistance on issues and programs related to nursing workforce policy, health policy, and public health institute development. Dr. Beane has taught at several Michigan universities and consulted with state agencies. Projects have been funded by large foundations, such as W. K. Kellogg and Robert Wood Johnson, as well as state and federal agencies. Professional interests include systems analysis, game theory, and demographics. Dr. Beane holds a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Stephanie Halfmann, M.S., R.D.
Program Director
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Phone: (517) 324-7311
Email: shalfma@mphi.org

Stephanie received a master’s degree in distance education with a cognate in nutrition from Michigan State University in 2004, and became a registered dietician in 1996. She provides expertise in social marketing campaign development and implementation, is certified in focus group facilitation, and has extensive experience with nutrient analysis database usage.

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Jeffrey Weihl, MA
Senior Program Director
Interactive Solutions Group
Phone: (517) 324-8325
Email: jweihl@mphi.org

Program Director Jeff Weihl, MA, is responsible for daily operations, ongoing performance, and business development of the Interactive Solutions Group, including MPHI’s practice in healthcare informatics, health data interchange, and online learning services. Mr. Weihl has more than 10 years of experience managing healthcare-related information technology projects for state government, more than five years of experience in communication/outreach with Michigan Medicaid provider groups on uniform billing conversion, and national implementation of electronic transaction standards for immunization data registries.

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Theresa Covington, MPH
Senior Program Director
National Resource Center for Child Death Review (Policy and Practice)
Phone: (517) 324-7332
Email: tcovingt@mphi.org

Senior Program Director Teri Covington provides technical assistance to help states and communities conduct comprehensive investigations and case reviews of child deaths and serious injuries. Ms. Covington manages a number of efforts to develop strategies to prevent child death and injury across a broad spectrum of causes. She serves on many national child health advisory boards and provides consultation to national organizations on maternal and child health and injury prevention. She developed and managed the Michigan Child Death Review Program and Michigan Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program for ten years prior to assuming national responsibilities. In this capacity, she facilitated a process to establish statewide protocols for investigation of sudden and unexplained infant deaths. She also established adolescent school-based health centers, comprehensive teen parenting programs, early childhood intervention services, young father support services, and child abuse and neglect community education programs. Ms. Covington earned a master of public health at the University of Michigan.

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Cynthia Cameron, Ph.D
Senior Program Director
Systems Reform
Phone: (517) 324-8315
Email: ccameron@mphi.org

Program Director Cynthia Cameron, Ph.D., is active in the effort to reform Michigan’s health and human service systems to better meet children’s and families’ needs. Early work centered on evaluating prevention programs at local and state levels. She currently provides oversight and management services to facilitate the work of regional, state, and local groups of diverse partners to develop and implement collaborative strategic plans. An area of interest is expanding consumers’ input in reforming services systems. She has employed more than 25 parents of children with special needs to assist in project development and implementation. She is currently director of the Region 4 Genetics Collaborative, which involves more than 120 partners in seven states. She also works with boards of directors on strategic positioning and provides consultation services to public health institutes and non-profit and governmental entities. In addition to her program director duties, she is also MPHI’s director of Corporate Planning. Ms. Cameron received her Ph.D. in family ecology with a cognate in public policy analysis from Michigan State University.

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