New Maine Area Health Education Center Network director announced
The Center for Community and Public Health (CCPH) is pleased to announce that Gail Dana-Sacco, Ph.D., will become the new director of the Maine Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network as of March 1, 2011. The Maine AHEC Network is part of UNE's Center for Community and Public Health, located within the College of Graduate Studies. Dr. Dana-Sacco will also hold a tenure track position as assistant professor with the Graduate Program in Public Health, also part of CCPH.
The mission of the Maine AHEC Network is to alleviate health workforce shortages in rural and underserved areas of Maine. Dr. Dana-Sacco will lead the Network in continuing to develop and implement strategies to recruit individuals from under-represented minority populations or from disadvantaged or rural backgrounds into health professions. She will also conduct research related to rural health workforce development and how these findings can be used to improve existing initiatives, federal and state work force policies or implement new programs.
Her work will be accomplished in collaboration with a broad array of academic and community partners and will focus on providing rural-based training and education to individuals pursuing careers as health professionals, or to individuals already employed as health professionals in rural and underserved areas of Maine. In addition to her responsibilities as Director of 91直播视频AHEC program she will teach 鈥淐ommunity-based Participatory Research鈥 in the Masters of Public Health program.
Dr. Dana-Sacco holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an M.P.H. in Health Promotion and Education from Loma Linda University and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Maine.