L. Michele Issel, PhD, RN

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Curriculum Vitae:Curriculum Vitae 2018
Research Interests:Community-based perinatal services, Medicaid prenatal case management, program evaluation, public health workforce development, public health nursing, dosage of community interventions.
Website (a little outdated, but some day, I’ll return to blogging):“One Professor’s Life: This is Public Health”
Teaching Specialty:Doctoral education, program planning and evaluation, philosophy of science.
Education:
PhD, University of Washington, School of Nursing;
MN, University of Washington;
BSN, Sonoma State University;
ADN, College of the Redwoods.
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Currently funded project.

Recently completed funded projects.

  • Evaluation of the Mecklenburg County Smoke Free ordinance encompassed parks and worksite.
  • The Keeping RNs to Improve and Strengthen Population Health (KRISP) project, funded by HRSA, BHPr, addresses the shortage of public health nurses..
  • The Best Practices to Preserve MCAH Performance in Local Health Departments: Learning from the Economic Downturn is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project aims to develop best practices for preserving services and programs to meet the needs of pregnant women, infants, children and adolescents.
  • Served as the faculty mentor to Dr. Joshua Vest, under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Health Services and Systems Research Dissertation and Junior Faculty Award. They completed a research project, Effective Public Health Data Sharing for Local Decision Making, which has implications for monitoring immunization status of children.

International Work.

  • 2016 invited presentation at University of Hamburg “Engaged Health Care Management Research: Looking for Scholarship and Science”
  • 2012 invited presentation in Italy at the Associazione Italiana di Economia Sanitaria (AIES), Annual Conference on the topic of American Health Care Reform: Implications for Health Care Management, Health Policy and Health Economics,
  • 2013 keynote presentation Management Approaches to Advancing the Practice of Public Health Nurses at the 3rd International Public Health Nursing Conference in Galway, Ireland.

Updated September 2018.