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Dianna D. Carroll, PhD, MS

Senior Health Scientist, Division of Human Development and Disability, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dianna Carroll, PhD, MS, is an epidemiologist with CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and is a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service. She is team lead for the Disability Research and Epidemiology Team whose focus is surveillance and research of health risks and behaviors among adults with disabilities. Dr. Carroll’s team also manages Disability and Heath Data System (DHDS), a web-based data tool providing state-level data on the health of adults with disabilities. Her current work focuses primarily on physical activity among adults with disabilities.

She joined CDC in 2006 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and worked in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity until joining the Division of Human Development and Disability in 2012. Prior to joining CDC, she spent more than a decade working in health services research and mental health research at the VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Carroll received her doctoral degree from the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center School of Public Health.

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Jevettra Devlin, MPH, CHES

Project Manager, Interagency Office of Disability and Health, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Jevettra Devlin is the project manager for the Interagency Office of Disability and Health housed at the University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She earned her master of public health degree in physical activity and public health from the University of South Carolina and her undergraduate degree in dance from Howard University in Washington, DC.

After completing her master’s degree, Devlin accepted a fellowship with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) as an epidemiologist at Fort Jackson for two years. During her fellowship, she studied the incidence of admission of basic trainees to the Physical Training and Rehabilitation Program during initial entry training. After this fellowship, she worked briefly with the South Carolina Interagency Office of Disability and Health before accepting an epidemiologist position with the Navy and Marine Epidemiology Data Center in Portsmouth, VA. Her area of focus in this position was occupational and environmental epidemiology.

Devlin is a member of the National Physical Activity Society and is a certified health education specialist (CHES). Her research interests are improving community health and decreasing obesity through research partnerships and community organizing.

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Candice Lee, MSA

Project Coordinator, Disability Health Unit, Michigan Department of Community Health

Candice Lee is the project coordinator for the Disability Health Unit (DHU) at the Michigan Department of Community Health. DHU’s mission is to make existing public health programs accessible and welcoming to people of all abilities, and to address the disparities in health between people with disabilities and people without. She has been with the Michigan Disability Health program since its inception in 2008.

Lee has been a PATH Master Trainer since 2008. In partnership with the Michigan Arthritis Program, DHU has worked to make PATH programs more accessible and welcoming to people of all abilities. Her prior experience includes human services and higher education. Lee earned her master of science in administration from Central Michigan University.

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Meghan Faulkner, MA

Community Health Associate, Arthritis Program, Michigan Department of Community Health

Meghan Faulkner works for the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) Arthritis Program as a community health associate. She provides technical assistance to partners across Michigan implementing and promoting evidence-based programs such as EnhanceFitness, a physical activity program designed to help older adults become more active and maintain independence, as well as Stanford University’s Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. Faulkner also works on partnership development and coordination and organizes arthritis and evidence-based program communication activities and publications. Before coming to MDCH, she served as a project manager, examining the public’s attitudes and opinions concerning informed consent when donating biological materials to biobanks.

She holds a master of arts in health and risk communication and a bachelor of science in dietetics, both from Michigan State University.

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