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AmeriCorps


Staff

Kimberly M. Walker
Principal Investigator

Kimberly Walker is the Associate Director of the Center for Health Policy and the Principal Investigator of NC CAF.  Mrs. Walker is responsible for assisting the Director with Center policy and procedure development and interpretation, serving as a departmental liaison within Duke University, and representing the Center with external partners.   She works with CHP faculty and senior staff around development of unified research agenda and visibility of the CHP nationally and internationally.

Her current training and development projects include facilitation and curriculum revision of the Duke University Peer Education Training Sites (PETS) program.  HIV infected persons participate in an intensive three-tiered training program which develops their communication and professional knowledge and skills in preparation to serve as a peer educator/counselor in local Infectious Disease clinics.  Mrs. Walker also acts as a facilitator for the Women’s Health Education Consultants (WHEC).  WHEC trains medical, graduate nursing, and physician assistant students how to conduct humanistic pelvic and breast exams. She is also involved in HIV Testing and Prevention Counseling training for SC DHEC and project management for the African American Colorectal Cancer Prevention Program for the American Cancer Society.

Ms. Walker, is a founding partner of TrainingWorks, Incorporated.  She has provided skills development for professionals since 2000.  She specializes in team building, cultural competency, minority health and health inequalities.   Her interests include public health training, especially in the African American community utilizing adult education principles and art therapy.  She is a Psychology and African American Studies graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC.

 

Beth Stringfield
Program Director

Beth joined the North Carolina Community AIDS Fund in December 2008 as the first full time staff member and has worked to launch the regranting and AmeriCorps programs. She has been in the field of HIV since 1998, as a direct service provider and administrator. Before her work in HIV, she was an AmeriCorps member through Public Allies.

 

Matthew Toth, MSW
Project Coordinator

Matt Toth works on a number of different projects advancing the goals and objectives of the Health Inequalities Program of the Center for Health Policy. Last spring he co-authored a White Paper on HIV and STD treatment and Prevention services for PLWHA in Guilford County.  In September 2009 he took on Project Coordinator responsibilities for the North Carolina Community AIDS Fund and is responsible for helping coordinate NC CAF’s initial AmeriCorp program and assists in the evaluation of grantee projects.   Matt received a Masters in Social Work from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2008 and has clinical social work experience in the hospital setting. He is a former Jesuit Volunteer where he taught recreation/physical fitness class to 1st through 5th graders in New York City.

 

 
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