Community Advisory Board
The Community Advisory Board (CAB) includes community members and community-engaged researchers from North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. These individuals represent the community at all levels of clinical and translational research within the Great Plains IDeA-CTR Network, offering advice and solutions essential to our programming success.
The CAB gathers and prioritizes regional health issues and generates ideas for community-engaged research projects. In addition, the CAB provides input on ways to best measure and track health outcomes, their impact on the community, and the best strategies to share research findings beyond the confines of a typical research journal.
Amy Behnke, JD
Chief Executive Officer,
Health Center Association of Nebraska
Susan Bockrath, MPH
Executive Director
Nebraska Association of Local Health Directors
Jason D. Coleman, PhD, MSPH
Director and Professor, School of Health and Kinesiology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Tommy Dennis
Outreach Coordinator
Nebraska Aids Project
Arielle Deutsch, PhD
Assistant Professor and Research Scientist
University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Avera Research Institute
Gretchen Forsell, MPH, RDN
Executive Director
Northern Nebraska AHEC
Abby Gold, PhD, MPH, RD
Extension Specialist
University of Minnesota Extension
Center for Family Development
Jed Hansen, PhD, APRN, FNP-C
Executive Director
Nebraska Rural Health Association
Regina Idoate, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Donald Jurivich, DO
Professor
University of North Dakota, School of Medicine and Health Science
Judy Martin, MS
Retired Deputy Director
Nebraska DHHS Division of Public Health
Susan Mayberger, MA
Executive Consultant
Mentor NE
Dave Palm, PhD
CAB Chair, Associate Professor, Director of The Center for Health Policy
University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health
Connie Reimers-Hild, PhD, CPC
Founder and Chief Futurist
Wild Innovations
Josie Rodriquez, MSHCA
Administrator
Nebraska DHHS, Office of Health Disparities and Health Equity
Valita Mi'oux'sah Stabler
Elementary Teacher
Omaha Public Schools
Naresh Sundar Rahan, PhD, MS
Chief Data Officer
CyncHealth
Yesenia Valenzuela
Community Relations Coordinator
City of Omaha
Mona Zuffante, MPH
Public Health Administrator
Winnebago