Alexandra Lightfoot, EdD

Director, CBPR Core
University of North Carolina
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
1700 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, CB#7426
Chapel Hill, NC
USA 27599-7426
Email: alexandra_lightfoot@unc.edu

Biographical Sketch: Alexandra Lightfoot, EdD, is the Assistant Director for the Community-Based Participatory Research Core and for the Kellogg Health Scholars Program at the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Principal Investigator on the FOY + ImPACT study we will talk about today. Melvin Jackson, MSPH, is Co-Principal Investigator based at Strengthening The Black Family. He is Community Mentor to Briana Woods, PhD, who is a Kellogg Health Scholar postdoc at UNC, working as Co-Investigator on the study. Linda Riggins, BA, is Project Coordinator based at Strengthening The Black Family.

Papers:
1006.0 CBPR charrettes: Harnessing community expertise to advance equity in community-academic research partnerships from an academic perspective 3021.0 Role of faith-based settings in African American adolescent HIV prevention 3378.0 Performing for prevention: Assessing the feasibility of an arts-based HIV prevention approach for adolescents in the US south 3378.0 College student sexual health educators comment on their participation in an arts-based intervention for high school students: A qualitative analysis 4063.0 Evaluation of an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention to enhance relevance in African American faith settings 4293.0 Youth working to improve young lives through research and advocacy 5150.0 Collaborating to address medical systems changes in cancer care with community initiation and accountability