Noelle Wiggins, EdD, MSPH

Director
Multnomah County Health Department
Community Capacitation Center
10317 E. Burnside St.
Portland, OR
USA 97216

Biographical Sketch: Noelle Wiggins is the founder and manager of the Community Capacitation Center (CCC) at the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, Oregon. From 1990-1995, Noelle served as the Director of La Familia Sana (The Healthy Family), a Community Health Worker (CHW) program based in Hood River, Or. From 1986-1990, Noelle trained and supported CHWs in a rural, conflictive area of El Salvador. Noelle served as Assoc. Director of the National Community Health Advisor Study and is a Past President of the Oregon Public Health Association. Noelle holds a BA in History from Yale University, an MS in Health and Social Behavior from the Harvard School of Public Health, and an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction from Portland State University.

Papers:
3231.0 Community capacitation center: Preparing community health workers for their role as agents of social change: 4100.0 Transformation from the outside in: How CHWs are being integrated into Oregon's coordinated care organizations