# overview
I am a seasoned public health practitioner with a majority of my professional experience focused on community capacity building and evaluation, with a specialty working in and with rural and underserved communities.  My academic evaluation work is deeply rooted in utilization-focused evaluation principles, ensuring data collected is relevant and useful to programs for quality improvement purposes and documenting program impact. As such, my evaluation principles and employment of a participatory collaborative approach allows me to adapt to a variety of public health topics and settings. My research and evaluation philosophy lens is applicable and appropriate for funders, project sites, and consumers, and is reflected the project designs to ensure usability of information for program improvement and data driven decision-making. My evaluation experience ranges from local to national projects including evaluation of the Evaluation of the Collaborative Approaches to Well-being in Rural Communities Project funded by the Hogg Foundation, evaluation of the Texas Tele-forensic Remote Access Center funded by the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime, and the state funded Telehealth Center for Sexual Assault Forensic Medical Examination (Center). Other previous collaborators include the Texas A&M School of Nursing, The Texas A&M Department of Recreation and Tourism Sciences, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Texas Healthy Adolescent Initiative, DSHS Office of the Attorney General, Texas Department of Family & Protective Services Prevention & Early Intervention Program, the National Rural Health Association, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Prevention Research Centers program, and local governmental/community organizations, and foundations. Additionally, the past two decades, my community-based work has required the ability to build relationships with a variety of individuals, as well as successfully provide deliverables for diverse audiences with actionable data for community health services planning, development, and execution. My extensive work in rural and underserved communities includes participation and/or leadership over ten community health assessments, one of which is a long-term study of the Brazos Valley, Texas, with assessments conducted in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022. My expertise in assessment for rural communities is prefaced with the intent to use assessment as a foundation for community-based work to establish community health status and social determinants of health which may influence health status, and I have co-authored a book chapter on this topic.

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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Pdmp, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

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8.1 Organisation And Delivery Of Services

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Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, U.s.

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Differences in the attitudes towards the opioid crisis between metropolitan and rural counties in Central Texas: Secondary data analysis using cross-sectional data.

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Health assessment in rural communities: a critical organizing and capacity-building tool

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Rural Health Education and Community-based Programs

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Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health, Southwest Rural Health Research Center

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Utilization of an interorganizational network analysis to evaluate the development of community capacity among a community-academic partnership.

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An Examination of the Workforce in Rural America

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Texas A&M University School of Public Health, Southwest Rural Health Research Center

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Utilization of an Interorganizational Network Analysis to Evaluate the Development of Community Capacity Among a Community Academic Partnership

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Using community-based methods to create a geospatial asset map of physical activity spaces in Pasadena, TX.

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Assessing diabetes practices in clinical settings: precursor to building community partnerships around disease management.

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Evaluating Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Interventions: Lessons Learned From CDC's Prevention Research Centers.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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Prevalence of anxiety and depression in South Asia during COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Interorganizational network changes among health organizations in the Brazos Valley, Texas.

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Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Disseminate a Mass Media Campaign Into Rural Communities.

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The Use of Interorganizational Network Analysis as a Tool for Evaluating Community-Based Coalitions and Partnerships

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Shared-Use Decisions Among Administrators of Physical Activity Facilities in Pasadena, TX.

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Society's Attitude Toward Spousal Physical Abuse: Findings from the Philippines National Demographic and Health Survey, 2022.

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Implementing A second-hand smoke intervention in two Texas colonias: The case of Sabemos: Por respeto, no se fuma aqui.

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THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY NURTURE IN ADOLESCENT INTEREST IN COLLEGE ATTENDANCE

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Increasing Access to Physical Activity Within Low Income and Diverse Communities: A Systematic Review.

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Increasing access to care for Brazos Valley, Texas: a rural community of solution.

# publications[].publisher
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)

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Texas Remote Assistance Center (Tex-TRAC):<br />Improving Care, Access and Quality of Sexual Assault Forensic Exams using Telehealth

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United States Department of Justice - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; School of Public Health; 1266 TAMU

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Cauley, Daunte' Armond (2021-12). Addressing Rural Health Needs: The Impact, Challenges, and Barriers to Community Health Resource Centers. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Myint, Wah Wah (2023-05). Exploring Support for Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence. Doctoral Dissertation.