Mobile Health Map/Harvard Medical School
Moovjam is very proud to be affiliated with the Mobile Health Map Project of Harvard Medical School
Mobile Health Map is the result a longstanding collaboration among leaders within the mobile health clinic industry, their sponsoring agencies, and the Mobile Health Clinics Network (MHCN).
Co Principal Investigators
Nancy E. Oriol, MD
Dr. Nancy Oriol is currently dean for students and an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and director of faculty development for the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1979 and trained in anesthesia at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1984 to 1997. Dr. Oriol was director of the Division of Obstetric Anesthesia at the Beth Israel Hospital, where her research included pioneering the walking epidural, a technique for pain relief for women in labor; designing a device to resuscitate newborns; and inventing a data-processing system that detects fetal distress. She was a member of the national task force that established the Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia.
Dr. Oriol, a 2009 recipient of the American Medical Association’s Excellence in Medicine Award, has received numerous other honors, including several Harvard Medical Student Teaching Awards, the YMCA Black Achiever’s Award, the Massachusetts Medical Society Special Award for Public Service, the Dr. Louis Sullivan Award for contributions to the delivery of quality health care to black men, and the New England Women’s Leadership Award in Health. She was also selected for inclusion in Footsteps: Profiles of Forty Remarkable Health Care Leaders, Stephen E. Gordon, editor, Puritan Press 2004. For her role as founder of the Boston-based Family Van, Dr. Oriol received the Pri-Med 15th Anniversary Award and the 2006 Mobile Healthcare Leadership Award.
Anthony Vavasis, MD
Dr. Anthony Vavasis completed his undergraduate and medical school training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He completed his residency training in family medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N. Y., in 1994. While in residency, he focused on learning to work in underserved urban communities. During that time, the HIV epidemic was at its peak in the Bronx. As a result, he developed skills in providing primary care to both indigent families and patients infected with HIV.
Dr. Vavasis now serves as program Clinical Director for the Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) program affiliated with the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City. HOTT provides free or low-cost health care to LGBT and other high-risk adolescents and young adults. Dr. Vavasis’s primary interest in health care is in integrating the principles of harm-reduction theory into the practice of medicine. He has spoken on this topic extensively and has participated in numerous panels related to HIV testing and prevention for young people. He also serves as the advisory board chair for the Mobile Health Clinics Network.
Research Team
Jennifer L. Bennet
Jennifer Bennet, executive director of The Family Van mobile health care clinic, has dedicated her career to organizations with a focus on social and economic justice. She joined The Family Van in 2005 with the goal of building the organization’s capacity. A pioneer in the growing trend in public health practice, mobile health clinics like The Family Van successfully reach people who typically do not or cannot access primary health care. Since 1992, The Family Van has worked to provide medical services and life-enhancing education to the residents of Boston’s most vulnerable neighborhoods.
Prior to joining The Family Van, Ms. Bennet served as the chief development officer at the nonprofit Center for Women & Enterprise, where she spent six years and founded the Community Entrepreneurs Program. This program has successfully trained thousands of low-income women in the basic business, economic-literacy, and life-management skills they need to launch their own micro-enterprise. Ms. Bennett’s diverse background also includes positions in operations, community relations, business development, management, and crisis intervention at both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
John S. Brownstein, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
In addition to his teaching position, Dr. John Brownstein has joint appointments in the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Division of Emergency Medicine. He is also vice chair of the International Society for Disease Surveillance. Dr. Brownstein’s research interests are in the development of methods and applications for public health surveillance, including HealthMap.org, an Internet-based global infectious-disease intelligence system. Dr. Brownstein has advised the World Health Organization, the Institute of Medicine, the US Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, and the White House on real-time public health surveillance.
Paul Cote, Consultant
Paul J. Cote, Jr. is an expert in health finance and policy. Since 1991 he has served in various senior policymaking positions in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including deputy commissioner, acting commissioner, commissioner, assistant secretary and chief of staff at the departments of Mental Health, Social Services, Health Care Finance and Policy, Public Health, and Executive Office of Health and Human Services, respectively. In between these stints in government service, Mr. Cote has held a variety of senior management positions and worked as an independent consultant on health and human service issues for the states of Massachusetts, Iowa, Virginia, Nebraska, and Illinois. He continues as a consultant on these issues for multiple organizations.
Darien A. DeLorenzo, CEO and Executive Director, Mobile Health Clinics Network
In 2005, Darien DeLorenzo founded the Mobile Health Clinics Network (MHCN), a nationwide membership-based association of mobile health care providers. Under her leadership and with contributions from a cadre of mobile health care providers nationwide, MHCN has grown to more than 300 members, and its mission is supported by an expanding coalition of national health care partners. The association’s outreach includes regional MHCN chapters and special interest groups. MHCN continues to host the highly regarded Annual Mobile Health Clinics Forum.
Prior to her tenure at MHCN, Ms. DeLorenzo was president of the Medical Marketing Association, representing marketing executives nationwide from a broad spectrum of health care fields, including nonprofit organizations and corporations. She has held executive positions in health care marketing, conference management, and program development for more than 40 years. Ms. DeLorenzo began her career in New York City with leading advertising agencies that specialize in producing global marketing campaigns for clients with health care products and services. Early on in her career, she founded DeLorenzo Media Services, providing marketing consultation to nonprofit organizations, including the American Hospital Association, the California Medical Association, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Caterina Hill, MSc
Caterina Hill is Research and Evaluation Manager at the Family Van and Research Associate at Harvard Medical School’s Global Health and Social Medicine Department.
Caterina specializes in enabling non-profit organizations to demonstrate their impact through quantitative and qualitative research. She has a Masters at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. Since joining the Family Van team, she has led research demonstrating the impact of mobile clinics for prevention in underserved areas in the U.S. Before coming to Harvard she led an African Center Health and Population Service Research project with 90,000 participants in South Africa and a National HIV study in the UK for the Health Protection Agency. She has also worked with SMCF Ethiopia with the goal of improving community health for its nation’s children.
As an educator she co-leads the training of student’s volunteers in The Family Van’s model of community screening and counseling as well as precepting scholarly projects. While in South Africa she assisted with the design and implementation of a course for the University of Witwatersrand and lectured at the University of Zululand. She also has a passion for mental health and wellness and is a certified HIV counselor.
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD
Isaac (Zak) Kohane is director of the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program and is the Lawrence J. Henderson professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also co-director of the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics and director of the HMS Countway Library of Medicine. Dr. Kohane leads multiple collaborations at Harvard Medical School and its hospital affiliates in the use of genomics and computer science to study diseases (particularly cancer and autism) through the perspective of biological development. He also has developed several computer systems to allow multiple hospital systems to be used as “living laboratories” to study the genetic basis of disease while preserving patient privacy. Among these, the i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) National Computing Center has been deployed at more than 18 academic health centers internationally.
LEARN Quebec
Moovjam is proud partner of LEARN, an educational foundation that:
- offers e-learning services and support to all English school boards, private schools, community organizations and the private sector in rural and urban settings
- supports and promotes pedagogical collaboration and innovation using information technology and works to model best practices
- publishes quality learning materials to support educators who are implementing competency-based practices in the classroom
Canadian Education Association
The Canadian Education Association (CEA) is a cross-Canada network with a strong membership base of leaders in the education, research and policy, not for profit and business sectors. We are committed to education that leads to greater student engagement; teaching that inspires students and teachers and that causes all students to learn; and schools that ensure both equity and excellence in pursuit of the optimal development of all students.
CEA is cultivating a national voice for change with a research-based transformation agenda. Our Programs & Initiatives are influencing decision-makers across the country to think differently about how we provide public education.
Organisation members
- Acadia University School of Education
- Alberta School Boards’ Association
- Association des cadres scolaires du Québec
- Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens
- Association des enseignantes et des enseignants francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick (AEFNB)
- Association of Director Generals of English School Boards of Quebec
- Association of Independent Schools and Colleges in Alberta
- Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
- Brock University, Faculty of Education
- Canadian Association of Communicators in Education
- Canadian Association of Immersion Teachers
- Canadian Association of School Administrators & Superintendents
- Canadian Association of Student Activity Advisors
- Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
- Canadian Educational Resources Council (CERC)
- Canadian Home and School Federation
- Canadian International School of Beijing
- Canadian Museum of Nature/Musée canadien de la nature
- Canadian Society for the Study of Education/ Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation (CSSE)
- Canadian Teachers’ Federation/Fédération canadienne des enseignantes et des enseignants
- Centre franco-ontarien de ressources pédagogiques
- Curriculum Services Canada
- Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)
- Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
- Federation of Independent School Associations in BC
- Fédération québécoise des directions d’établissement d’enseignement
- Galileo Educational Network
- La Fédération des commissions scolaires du Québec
- League of Educational Administrators, Directors and Superintendents (LEADS)
- Let’s Talk Science
- Library of Parliament
- Manitoba Education Research & Learning Information Networks (MERLIN)
- Manitoba School Improvement Program Inc.
- Memorial University of Newfoundland, Faculty of Education
- National Film Board of Canada
- Newfoundland & Labrador School Boards’ Association
- Newfoundland & Labrador Teachers’ Association
- Nova Scotia School Boards Association
- Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association
- Ontario College of Teachers/ L’ordre des enseignantes et enseignants de l’Ontario
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association
- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE)
- Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC)
- Ontario Public School Boards’ Association
- Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
- People For Education
- Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta
- Queen’s University, Faculty of Education
- Roots of Empathy
- Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Education
- Taking IT Global
- University of Alberta, Campus Saint-Jean
- University of Alberta, Faculty of Education
- University of Calgary, Faculty of Education
- University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education
- University of Manitoba, Faculty of Education
- University of Prince Edward Island, Faculty of Education
- University of Regina, Faculty of Education
- University of Saskatchewan, College of Education
- University of Victoria, Faculty of Education
- Université de Montréal, Faculté des Sciences de l’éducation
- Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté d’éducation
- Vancouver Island University, Faculty of Education
- York University, Faculty of Education
- Aislinn Education & Safety Foundation
- Coalition for Music Education of Canada
- Conseil pédagogique interdisciplinaire du Québec (CPIQ)
- Manitoba School Boards Association
- Mount Saint Vincent University, Faculty of Education
- Abraar School
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
- IBNA (International Baccalaureate North America)
- Manitoba Association of School Superintendents
- Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
- Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
- Canadian Wildlife Federation
- Association of Nova Scotia Educational Administrators (ANSEA)
- Manitoba Association of Parent Councils (MAPC)
- Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones
- LEARN
- Society for Educational Visits and Exchanges in Canada (SEVEC) / Société éducative de visites et d’échanges au Canada (SEVEC)
- Nova Scotia Teachers Union
- Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION)
- Nova Scotia Teachers Union
- Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION)
- Early Childhood and School Services
School board members
- Avon Maitland District School Board
- Battle River School Division No.31
- Brandon School Division
- Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board
- Burnaby School District No. 41
- Commission scolaire du Littoral
- Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon
- Conseil scolaire acadien provincial
- Conseil scolaire Centre-Nord No. 2
- Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales
- Conseil scolaire du Nord-Ouest No.1
- Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique
- Delta School District No. 37
- Eastern Townships School Board
- Edmonton Public School Board
- Evergreen School Division
- Fort McMurray Catholic Board of Education
- Grande Yellowhead Regional Division No. 35
- Halifax Regional School Board
- Hanover School Division
- Holy Family Catholic Regional Division No. 37
- Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
- Lakehead District School Board
- Lakeland Catholic Board of Education No. 150
- Lester B. Pearson School Board
- Lethbridge School District No. 51
- Lloydminster Public School Division No. 1753
- Lord Selkirk School Division
- Nechako Lakes School District No.91
- New Frontiers School Board
- Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board
- North Okanagan-Shuswap School District No. 83
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
- Portage La Prairie School Division
- Prairie South School Division No. 210
- Red River Valley School Division
- Regina School Division No. 4
- Richmond School District No.38
- River East Transcona School Division
- Riverside School Board
- Sahtu Divisional Education Council
- Saskatoon Public School Division No. 13
- School District 2
- Sea to Sky School District No. 48
- Seven Oaks School Division
- South Slave Divisional Education Council
- St. Albert Protestant Separate School District No. 6
- St. James-Assiniboia School Division
- Sunrise School Division
- Swan Valley School Division
- Toronto Catholic District School Board
- Toronto District School Board
- Vancouver Board of Education No.39
- West Vancouver School District No. 45
- Western School Division
- Winnipeg School Division
- Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 1
- Chignecto-Central Regional School Board
- Pembina Trails School Division
- Renfrew County Catholic District School Board
- Rocky View Schools
- Saanich School District No. 63
- Edmonton Catholic Separate School District No. 7
- Foothills School Division No. 38
- Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools
- Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
- Kamloops/Thompson School District No. 73
- Louis Riel School Division
- New Westminster School District No. 40
- Prairie Valley School Division No. 208
- Rolling River School Division
- School District of Mystery Lake
- The Greater Victoria School District No. 61
- York Region District School Board
- Commission scolaire de la Région de Sherbrooke
- Sudbury Catholic District School Board
- Sun West School Division
- Prince Rupert School District No. 52
- Commission scolaire des Sommets
- Conseil des écoles fransaskoises
- Conseil scolaire Centre-Est No. 3
- Conseil scolaire de district des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest
- Horizon School Division No. 205
- Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE)
- Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l’Ontario
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