- Senior Outreach Specialist for the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute (WAI), University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Biography
Through a partnership between the Center and WAI, Ms. Green-Harris collaborates with multiple entities to increase awareness and provide education about the impact of Alzheimer's disease in the African American community. She provides leadership and governance to guide and build the capacity of a newly developed WAI Milwaukee office, and coordinates a solid outreach and research program designed to provide resources and recruit minorities into research that is culturally specific to African-Americans in the Milwaukee area.
She has worked in minority health for over 15 years in the areas of HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, SLE Lupus, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Her experiences include community outreach, training and leadership development, grant administration and management, coalition building, and creating and sustaining statewide advisory teams and councils. She has been a grant reviewer for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and has served on statewide health steering committees and boards.
