Kenya Love
- Doctoral Student
- Research Areas: Public Policy, Public Administration Theory
Additional Information
Bio
Kenya Love is a public health practitioner who has spent over 13 years in local government. Before coming to UNMC Center for Reducing Health Disparities, she served as a Robert Wood Johnson Evaluation Fellow for the National Cancer Institute’s, Office of Science Planning and Assessment, and as a Community Health Planner II at the Douglas County Health Department. In this role, she developed and oversaw the Douglas County Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), workforce development and strategic planning initiatives. As the Community Health Program Manager for the Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Love’s focus is to improve population health in the North Omaha residents.
As an expert, Ms. Love manages and facilitates community groups to assess health from multiple lenses, including need and impact, evidence, and dissemination. The culmination of these activities is used to inform and design programs, and content for materials to share progress, get input, and/or facilitate necessary conversations to further advance the health of Black/African Americans who reside in North Omaha. Her interests include creating healthy communities by identifying new ways of engaging community and addressing social determinants of health through collaboration, sustainable inclusivity, and shared power. Additionally, her broad range of public health experience includes, but is not limited to 1) Program planning 2) Program implementation 3) Culturally responsive evaluation 4) Participatory Action Research.
Education
M.P.H. in Community Health Education, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
B.S. in Community Health Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Honors and Awards
Additional Information
Bio
Kenya Love is a public health practitioner who has spent over 13 years in local government. Before coming to UNMC Center for Reducing Health Disparities, she served as a Robert Wood Johnson Evaluation Fellow for the National Cancer Institute’s, Office of Science Planning and Assessment, and as a Community Health Planner II at the Douglas County Health Department. In this role, she developed and oversaw the Douglas County Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), workforce development and strategic planning initiatives. As the Community Health Program Manager for the Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Love’s focus is to improve population health in the North Omaha residents.
As an expert, Ms. Love manages and facilitates community groups to assess health from multiple lenses, including need and impact, evidence, and dissemination. The culmination of these activities is used to inform and design programs, and content for materials to share progress, get input, and/or facilitate necessary conversations to further advance the health of Black/African Americans who reside in North Omaha. Her interests include creating healthy communities by identifying new ways of engaging community and addressing social determinants of health through collaboration, sustainable inclusivity, and shared power. Additionally, her broad range of public health experience includes, but is not limited to 1) Program planning 2) Program implementation 3) Culturally responsive evaluation 4) Participatory Action Research.
Education
M.P.H. in Community Health Education, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
B.S. in Community Health Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Honors and Awards