Community Advisory Board
The Community Advisory Board 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 board gathers and prioritizes regional health issues and generates ideas for community-engaged research projects. In addition, board members provide 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.
Board Members
Jentry S. Barrett
Engagement Zone Coordinator, Campus; Nebraska Extension, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jason D. Coleman, PhD, MSPH
Director, Professor, School of Health and Kinesiology, University of Nebraska Omaha
Gretchen Forsell, MPH, RDN
Executive Director, Northern Nebraska Area Health Education Center
Jed Hansen, PhD, APRN, FNP-C
Executive Director, Nebraska Rural Health Association
Donald Jurivich, DO
Professor, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Science
Josie Rodriguez, MSHCA
Administrator, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Office of Health Disparities and Health Equity
Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, OneWorld Community Health Centers
Terra Uhing, MS
Executive Director, Three Rivers Public Health Department
Yesenia Valenzuela
Community Relations Coordinator, City of Omaha Mayor's Office
Mona Zuffante, MPH
Public Health Administrator, Winnebago Public Health Department
