Our Team
Principal Investigators
Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health; Director, The Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center
S. Jan Behrman Collegiate Professor of Reproductive Medicine; Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School; Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Literature, Science and the Arts; Director, MICHR Community Engagement
Steering Committee
The Michigan CEAL Steering Committee is composed of community partners who live and work in Genesee, Kent, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties.
Executive Director and Founder, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation (DHDC)
Bruce McCoy
CEO, Bibleway Outreach Ministries
Camille Johnson
Director of Development & Communications, Eastside Community Network
INSIGHT - Institute on National Social Inequities and Gaps in Health and Health Treatment
Charo Ledon
Founder and Co-Coordinator, Buenos Vecinos
CEO, Bridges into the Future
Administrator, Community Based Organization Partners
Director of Outreach, Genesee Health Plan; Founder and CEO, National Center for African American Consciousness
Chief Executive Officer, Community Health and Social Services, Inc. (CHASS)
Jo Ann McCollum
President, New West Willow Neighborhood Association
Executive Director, Health Net of West Michigan
Co-Director, Healthy Flint Research Coordinating Center; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Michigan Medicine
Community Health Educator, Spectrum Health
Executive Director, Friends of Parkside
Translational Research Team
The Michigan CEAL Translational Research Team is composed of University of Michigan-affiliated researchers who are dedicated to community-based participatory research.
Program Staff
Arthi Ramakrishnan, MS, CCRP
Program Manager, Michigan CEAL; Research Operations Manager, Women’s Health and Reproductive Disparities Collaborative
Tricia Piechowski, MPH, MSW, MA
Program Manager, Michigan CEAL; Program Director, Community Engagement Program at the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)
Mary Beth Damm
Center Manager, Detroit URC
Program Manager, CEAL/CIVIC
Karen Calhoun
Program Manager, Michigan CEAL; Community Engaged Research Program Officer, Community Engagement Program at the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)
Kirsten Trzeciak
Coordinator, Michigan CEAL and CIVIC; Clinical Research Coordinator Intermediate, Women’s Health and Reproductive Disparities Collaborative