Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Health Behavior
4444 Forest Park Ave
St. Louis,
MO
USA
63108
Email:
cbrownso@dom.wustl.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Carol Brownson, MSPH, served for seven years as Deputy Director for the Diabetes Initiative National Program Office at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in Saint Louis. In that capacity, she provided technical assistance and support to 14 project sites, which included conducting self management training, facilitating development of tools to improve self management support in clinics and communities, leading workgroups on community health worker interventions, and developing community supports for diabetes self management. During that time, she also collaborated with the Missouri Primary Care Association on a self management quality improvement project with 17 FQHCs. Ms. Brownson is currently part of the Evaluation Team for Better Self-Management of Diabetes, a program of the Missouri Foundation for Health. She has contributed to numerous publications on self management support and recently served on an international roundtable on chronic disease self-management. Previously, she worked for 16 years in chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs at the Missouri Department of Health.