Center Staff
M. Jo Edwards, Ed.D. Adams Chair of Excellence in Health Care Services
Director, Center for Health and Human Services
615-898-2905
Dr. Edwards holds the Adams Chair of Excellence in Health Care Services at MTSU and serves as the Director of the Center for Health and Human Services. She is the principal investigator on current and former projects serviced through the center: Yes I Can! Diabetes Self-Management Program, Tennessee Anti-Tobacco Advocacy Initiative, Tennessee Comprehensive Cancer Control, Prevention Through Understanding: Investigating Unexpected Child Death, and previously STOP (Student Tobacco Outreach & Prevention), Career Mapping, and SMART Mothers Are Resisting Tobacco. She has produced the 4th edition of Allied Health in Tennessee: A Supply and Demand Study. As the founding director and now consultant to the Tennessee Institute of Public Health, she coordinates the development of the County Health Profiles.
Jeannie S. Paul, B.S. Executive Assistant Adams Chair of Excellence
615-494-8919
jeannie.paul@mtsu.edu
Ms. Paul provides administrative support to the Adams Chair of Excellence and the
Center for Health and Human Services. She also provides technical and fiscal support
to grant project managers. In addition, she assists with coordinating the logistical
arrangements for events, conferences, and meetings.
615-847-3081 (M,T, Th,F), 615-898-5493 (W)
cindychafin@comcast.net or cynthia.chafin@mtsu.edu
Ms. Chafin's areas of interest include maternal/child health, community health and wellness, healthy lifestyles, and obesity prevention. Currently, she manages the Tennessee Comprehensive Cancer Control project . Previously, she managed the Yes I Can! Diabetes Self-Management project, and Smart Mothers are Resisting Tobacco , a prenatal tobacco cessation and prevention program, and the Career Mapping and Folic Acid projects . In 2007, she founded the Community Health Collaboratives, LLC.
Jill Thomas, B.A. Program Manager, SIDS Death Scene Investigation
615-494-8685
jill.thomas@mtsu.edu
Ms. Thomas's areas of expertise are youth tobacco prevention and education and cervical cancer prevention. Currently, she manages the SIDS Death Scene Investigation Project . Previously, she managed the Student Tobacco Outreach Prevention (STOP) Project in the Middle Tennessee region; organizing all STOP tobacco training hosted by MTSU, as well as the STOP/GEAR UP youth summit collaboration.
Gail H. Hardin,
MSCHES
Anti-Tobacco Advocacy Initiative
615-904-8342
gail.hardin@mtsu.edu
Gail's interests include social marketing, health literacy, tobacco use prevention
and cessation, and cancer and diabetes education. Currently Gail serves as Program
Manager for the Tennessee Anti-Tobacco Advocacy Initiative. Prior to joining the Center
for Health and Human Services, Gail worked in Psychology research at Vanderbilt University
and was regional Partnership Program Manager for the National Cancer Institute's Cancer
Information Service.
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