2010 Out of the Box Prize - International Panel of Judges
The Community Tool Box team is deeply grateful to those serving on the Out of the Box Prize International Panel of Judges.
Their expertise, and generosity with their time, is much appreciated.
Rima Afifi
Dr. Rima Afifi serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Education of the Faculty of Health Sciences, at the American University of Beirut. She is engaged in a variety of community-based participatory research projects, including a youth health and development project with a Palestinian refugee Camp in Beirut (funded by Wellcome Trust of the UK).
Kaston Anderson
Kaston Anderson Jr., MA, is a doctoral student with the KU Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas. His interests include exploring social determinants of health and development, and evaluating the efficacy of interventions used in community-based participatory research to determine best practices that will effect improvements in population-level outcomes.
Robert Aronson
Dr. Aronson is an Associate Professor of the Department of Public Health Education at UNCG. He received the Master of Public Health degree from the Department of Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 1986, and the Doctor of Public Health degree from the Department of International Health at the Bloomburg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University in May 1997. His current focus is on understanding the causes of health disparities experienced by African American males, and identifying effective intervention strategies for this population across the social ecology.
Monika Arora
Dr. Monika Arora, PhD, M.Sc., PGD (Epidemiology), is the Head of Health Promotion and Tobacco Control and adjunct Assistant Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India in New Delhi, India. She is involved in designing, implementing, managing and evaluating intervention programs, large scale group randomized trials as well as qualitative research on chronic disease prevention through health promotion among children and communities in India.
Faten Ben Abdelaziz
Dr. Faten Ben Abdelaziz serves as a Regional Adviser for Health Education at the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region in Cairo, Egypt. She manages a programme which addresses various issues such as risk behaviors, marketing of food and beverages targeting children, capacity building of health educators at a field level and community mobilization.
Fabricio Balcazar
Dr. Fabricio Balcazar is a Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development, and Director of the Center for Capacity Building on Minorities with Disabilities Research, at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His research uses systematic approaches for promoting the empowerment of minorities and under-served populations, including Latinos with disabilities and their families.
Bill Berkowitz
Dr. Bill Berkowitz is a community psychologist who has been writing and teaching about, creating, and directing neighborhood and community service programs for more than 30 years. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology since the 1970s at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and at other universities. He is author of Community Impact, Community Dreams, Local Heroes, and The Spirit of the Coalition (with Tom Wolff). Since the mid-1990s, he has also been a core team member, lead editor, and writer for the largest single source of community development information now in existence, the Community Tool Box.
Natalie Brown
Natalie Brown (MA) recently completed her degree in Community Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON. She went on to begin her own consulting business Common Thread Consulting, where the common thread of all work is addressing issues of social justice through the application of community-based research and participatory facilitation methods. Additionally, Natalie is the Coordinator for the Alliance for Children and Youth in the Waterloo Region, a collaborative organization working at the community level to address child and family well-being across the region. Natalie is interested in applying critical thinking and reflection as research tools to understand and address community and systemic issues of inequality.
Vicki Collie-Akers
Vicki Collie-Akers, M.P.H., Ph. D., serves as a Research Associate at the KU Work Group. Vicki completed her Masters in Public Health, with a concentration in Behavioral Science and Health Education, at Saint Louis University. Vicki’s research interests include preventing chronic disease, childhood obesity and reducing health disparities.
Donna Dinkin
Donna Dinkin is a Global Public Health Leadership Consultant and an Action Learning Specialist and Coach. She is recognized for her expertise in designing, implementing and evaluating leadership development experiences for mid- to senior level human service professionals. Dr. Dinkin has recently led or been involved in several initiatives that were designed to help people, organizations and communities build sustainable leadership capacity through the use of strategic action learning team projects.
Madhumita Dobe
Dr. Madhumita Dobe is the Secretary General at the Indian Public Health Association (IPHA), the largest public health organisation in India with more than 5,000 members from a variety of disciplines. She is also Director - Professor of Public Health of the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata.
Stephen Fawcett
Dr. Stephen Fawcett is Director at the KU Work Group for Community Health and Development, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. He is also Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Kansas. Dr. Fawcett has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a visiting scholar at the World Health Organization in Geneva. Since the mid-1990s, he has been a project director and core team member the Community Tool Box.
Vincent Francisco
Dr. Vincent Francisco is Associate Professor with the Department of Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Francisco is primarily interested in research in community development, especially for empowerment of marginalized groups. He has considerable experience in the research and evaluation of community-based intervention programs focusing on adolescent development, reduction of risk for HIV/AIDS, teen substance abuse, assaultive violence, teen parenthood, and chronic/cardiovascular diseases. Since the mid-1990s, he has been a core team member the Community Tool Box.
Nick Freudenberg
Dr. Nick Freudenberg serves as Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter College. For more than 25 years, Dr. Freudenberg has developed, implemented, and evaluated interventions and policies to promote health and prevent disease in low-income communities and among vulnerable populations in New York City, such as those returning from jail back into community life. He has also served as editor of Cities and the Health of the Public.
Joseph Galano
Joseph Galano, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of William and Mary since 1977and a core faculty member in the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology. He is committed to applying psychology and working directly with communities to address social problems and to improve the human condition. Dr. Galano was awarded Fellow status in the Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27). In recognition of his career accomplishments, the American Psychological Association honored him with the 1996 Distinguished Contribution to Practice in Community Psychology award. Dr. Galano’s greatest professional satisfaction has been to help prepare the next generation of preventionists. He has helped hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students become involved in community service and public health careers. In 2010, he received the College of William and Mary's Thomas Ashley Graves Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching.
Lark Galloway-Gilliam
Ms. Lark Galloway-Gilliam, M.P.A., is Executive Director of Community Health Councils in Los Angeles. She plays an active role in debate and policy development on such issues as disparities in health between ethnic communities, access to care and health care coverage, and financing for the uninsured. Galloway-Gilliam has more than 25 years of experience in nonprofit management, community organizing, strategic planning, public policy and administration.
Cesáreo Fernández Gomez
Cesáreo Fernández Gomez, PhD, and Master in Addictions, is a Spanish psychologist (in Industrial and Clinical Psychology). During the last 15 years, he has been a researcher and scientific research assistant for several European and national associations working in mental health and substance abuse. He is author and co-author for more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and chapters on mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment.
Alexis Hamill
Alexis Hamill, M.A., is a fifth year clinical-community psychology doctoral student at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She has interests in psychosocial rehabilitation, rehabilitation psychology, and art. Her research focuses on empowerment in the Deaf community and the role of group identification in the movement from marginalization to empowerment.
Dawn Henderson
Dawn Henderson, M.Ed., B.S., is a fourth year doctoral student in Psychology at North Carolina State University (concentration in Community Psychology). She has volunteered in numerous positions with the following organizations: Society for Community Research and Action (proposal reviewer), Society for Research on Adolescence, National Associate of African American Honors Program (Vice Presiden), NC Democratic Society, Habitat for Humanity, NOrth Carolina Friends of Black Families Initiative, and Literacy Volunteers of America. Dawn's general research interests surround how organizations function as transformative entities and promote positive psychosocial development among youth.
Mark Homan
Dr. Mark Homan is a faculty member and former chair in the Social Services Department at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of the community development text, Promoting Community Change, now in its 5th edition. For over thirty years, he has worked with diverse populations and communities on a broad range of issues, including neighborhood stabilization and empowerment, hunger, reproductive rights, children with special health care needs, community mental health, family planning, and community development.
Mininder Kaur
Mininder Kaur is a physician whose work in community health and development is inspired by her great grandfather’s mission " If you want to change society educate the girls." Trained in India, she has volunteered in medical missions in Zimbabwe and South Africa; and for the last five years in Haiti, as economic development director and health promotion advisor of Sonje Ayiti, an NGO working in the region of Limonade, Haiti.
Marilyn Metzler
Marilyn Metzler is Senior Analyst for Social Determinants of Health Equity in the Office of the Director, Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Melissa Nemon
Melissa has a PhD in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University and a Masters degree in Community Social Psychology from the University of Masschusetts Lowell. Melissa is currently the Vice President of Community Impact at Granite United Way in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she is responsible for the granting, research, and evaluation process.
Erin Paavola
Erin is a Community Psychology Graduate at National Louis-University, who is currently conducting an evaluation of a community metropolitan crisis line. Her research interests include: international child human rights, youth mental health, issues surrounding youth obesity and wellness promotion, access concerns for disabilities, and community aspects of disaster preparation and response. She has professional and clinical experience working in non-profit agencies and mental health hospitals focused on helping families and children who have medical and psychiatric issues of concern.
Adrienne Paine-Andrews
Dr. Adrienne Paine-Andrews is a professional community psychologist who has deep experience in supporting and evaluating community health initiatives. She is a past recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Practice Award of the Society for Community Research and Action.
Sheetal Pandya
Sheetal Pandya has Masters in Health Science with a major in Health Education from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist. Ms. Pandya is currently pursuing Ph D in Behavioral Psychology with the Department of Applied Behavior Science at KU. She will be studying community psychology and has a strong interest in understanding effective community efforts to promote healthy behaviors. As a Research Assistant with the KU Research Work Group, she supports the documentation and participatory evaluation of substance abuse prevention efforts in Kansas through the Kansas Addiction and Prevention Services (KS AAPS). She also works with other related projects (including the Work Group's participation in a new NIH study of effective prevention efforts to reduce childhood obesity in 300 communities across the U.S.)
John Pierce
John Pierce is Affiliate Faculty and Research Associate in the Public Administration Department at the University of Kansas, and Research Professor at Washington State University at Vancouver. He previously served as Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Executive Director of the Oregon Historical Society, and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Washington State University. Pierce has authored, co-authored or co-edited numerous scholarly books and articles analyzing the social, political and cultural contexts for public knowledge and beliefs about environmental topics. His most recent work examines the cultural context for public views of alternative energy technologies, and the relationship of resilience and sustainability in U.S. urban areas.
Kumanan Rasanathan
Kumanan Rasanathan is a New Zealand public health physician who currently works for the World Health Organization in the Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights. He was a member of the WHO secretariat of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and one of the principal authors of the World Health Report 2008 on primary health care. His current work is focused on implementing action on the social determinants of health at global and national levels, particularly considering links to health systems, climate change, the current economic crisis and non-communicable disease. He has previously worked as a researcher, policy-maker and clinician in China, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Al Ratcliffe
Dr. Ratcliffe delivers community psychology services in natural community settings in Tacoma, WA. He is very active in trying to develop and strengthen services available to homeless persons and persons living in poverty.
Marti Rice
Ms. Marilyn Rice, M.A., M.P.H., is Senior Advisor in Health Promotion at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington. D.C. She is also Leader of the Health Determinants and Health Promotion Team in PAHO’s Area for Sustainable Development and Environmental Health.
Daniel Schober
Daniel J. Schober, MA, MPH is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, studying behavioral psychology. Dan is interested in participatory research with communities in the areas of health promotion, youth development, and violence prevention.
Jerry Schultz
Dr. Jerry Schultz is Co-Director at the KU Work Group for Community Health and Development, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. He works to build capacity of urban neighborhoods to solve local problems, understand systems change, and evaluate community health and development initiatives. Dr. Schultz is the recipient of the Distinguished Practice Award from the Society for Community Research and Action. Since the mid-1990s, he has been a core team member the Community Tool Box.
Tobias Schueth
Dr. Tobias Schueth, Dr. Med, DPHTM, is the country representative of the Swiss Red Cross in Kyrgyzstan. He is a public health physician who has worked for the last 15 years for community development and health in rural areas of South Asia and Central Asia. Since 2001 he and has developed there the countrywide Community Action for Health program, which has become a part of the national health reform in Kyrgyzstan.
Tom Seekins
Tom Seekins, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of Research at the Rural Institute on Disability, University of Montana. Areas of interest include rural employment and economic development, rural health, and rural community development - especially as these areas address issues of disability.
Robert Strack
Dr. Strack is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Public Health Education at UNCG. He earned his MBA from Indiana University followed by a PhD in Health Education and Behavior from the School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. He currently works with communities on issues of school health, teen pregnancy prevention, and Photo-voice as an agenda setting tool for youth.
Dr. Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar
Dr. Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar is Professor and head of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research focuses on the study of capacity building, empowerment, and participatory evaluation of community-based health interventions for people of color and people with disabilities.
Jomella Watson-Thompson
Dr. Watson-Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science and an Associate Director for the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on neighborhood development, healthy youth development, and prevention, including substance abuse and violence prevention.
Tom Wolff
Dr. Tom Wolff is a nationally recognized consultant on coalition building and community development, with over 30 years of experience training and consulting with individuals, organizations and communities across North America. His clients include federal, state and local government agencies, foundations, hospitals, non-profit organizations, professional associations, and grassroots groups. He is the author of The Power of Collaborative Solutions (2010), From the Ground Up: A Workbook on Coalition Building and Community Development (1997 with Gillian Kaye), and The Spirit of the Coalition (2000 with Bill Berkowitz). Since the mid-1990s, he has been a core team member the Community Tool Box.
Susan Wolfe
Susan Wolfe is the CEO of Susan Wolfe and Associated, LLC, a consulting firm where she applies community psychology principles to enhance organizational and community effectiveness. She lives and works in Duncanville, Texas.