Naima T. Wong, PhD, MPH

Program Officer
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Research and Evaluation
Route 1 and College Road East
PO Box 2316
Princeton, NJ
USA 08543-2316

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Naima Wong is a Research Associate with the Georgia Health Policy Center in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her work at the Center consists of a diverse portfolio of projects including providing local evaluation for a national cross-site initiative on environment and policy change to promote healthy eating and active living funded by Kaiser Permanente and serving as a technical assistance consultant to grantees of the HRSA Office of Rural Health Policy. She is also part of a team working with the CDC to design a national framework for implementing health in all policies in the US. Several of her projects also include strategic planning, needs assessment, designing research protocol, implementation, and program design for clients that range from community based organizations to national public health networks. In addition, Naima has research experience and training in the areas of youth empowerment, social determinants of health equity, community based participatory research methods, and media advocacy. She has specific interests in working with communities on social justice issues and further understanding how the application of empowerment theory can support health equity. Naima earned her PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan-School of Public Health in 2008, and her Master’s in Public Health from the same department in 2002. She also holds a BA in Psychology from Spelman College.

Papers:
4404.0 Building an interdisciplinary field: Where we are and where we need to go