Our Collaborators
Total Population Health, LLC
Karen Trierweiler is a master’s prepared nurse midwife and experienced public health professional. She is known for leading collaborative efforts to achieve measurable health improvements for women, children, youth, and families. She incorporates evidence-based practices, performance management, and quality improvement to promote program and organizational effectiveness.
Vijaya K Hogan Consulting, LLC
Vijaya Hogan is an experienced consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the philanthropy industry. She is skilled in clinical research, community health, and epidemiology. She brings strong community and social equity with a focus on maternal child health.
Amanda Cornett
Amanda Cornett is a system and organizational improvement consultant with over 15 years of experience. She has worked with non-profit, local, state and federal public health, and health care organizations to create a collective vision and implement strategies to achieve the vision. She has served as an instructor, facilitator, technical assistance provider, and coach; all with the purpose of guiding and supporting organizations as they transform and continuously improve. Her commitment is to provide tailored assistance to meet the individual needs of each organization and to maximize their impact. Ms. Cornett is passionate about building collaborative teams and helping them move to action. She encourages teams to use an adaptive mindset to quickly test and learn what strategies fit best within their current context, resources, and unique challenges. She views her role not as the problem solver, rather as a coach and facilitator, who asks the right questions to help those on the front line explore and identify their own solutions.
Colleen Bridger Consulting, LLC
Colleen Bridger provides short/medium term, targeted services to help those who help others. She started her career in 1990 working with a Migrant Farmworker Clinic in Eastern North Carolina, transitioned to a researcher with international development organizations and North Carolina’s Division of Public Health, led local health departments in NC and San Antonio and even started a non-profit (the Institute for Child Success) in South Carolina. While in San Antonio Colleen Bridger also served as an Assistant City Manager overseeing Health, Human Services, Parks and Recreation, Immigration and Equity. The thing she loved best about all those jobs was problem solving for the common good. While her background is largely public health focused, she’s found that using a public health approach is incredibly effective in addressing most complex problems. At Colleen Bridger Consulting, LLC, the most effective process to address complex problems involves: 1) giving voice to those affected; 2) determining existing resources/identifying important gaps; 3) activating social networks to fill those gaps and 4) developing and clearly communicating the plan for how to get from where we are to where we want to be.
Lucas Griffin
Lucas Griffin builds the capacity of clients in using data to drive decision-making through culturally responsive, community-centered solutions. As an advocate for asset-based approaches towards public health challenges, he is proficient in using network mapping, participatory research methods, and equitable community engagement practices to support change agents in leveraging their greatest strengths: the people. With experience in applying culturally responsive evaluation frameworks, Results-Based Accountability (RBA), and geographic data visualization software, Lucas has worked with local health departments, nonprofit leaders, and federal partners to improve health outcomes across historically underserved communities, particularly through the COVID-19 Pandemic. As a former Rural Interprofessional Longitudinal Scholar at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, he has also worked to build local capacity, workforce, and collaboration across rural communities in NC and VA. Lucas received his MPH from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2022.
WE Public Health
Women's Leadership is crucial to solving society's toughest health and social challenges. That's why WE has assembled a collective of talented solopreneurs, small businesses, strategists, researchers, and creatives. WE is proud of their collaborative approaches, strong connections, and the diversity of professional and lived experience that each collaborator brings to the work. WE all have something to contribute. WE all have something to learn. This is our Collective Wisdom.
