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Andrea Mendoza brings to the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) years of experience in community-engaged research and as an accomplished public health practitioner committed to catalyzing positive changes in community health and outreach, especially in underrepresented communities. She graduated with a Master of Public Health in global health from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2021 and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Duke University in 2015.
Ms. Mendoza is a former community engagement specialist in the Center for Health Equity Research at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine. In her role, she recruited, trained, and supported study champions to share memory loss-focused information in their local communities. In addition, she has extensive experience working on projects broadly focused on improving the overall health and wellbeing of Latine immigrant communities.
As a project planner, she works closely with community members and organizations to oversee outreach and engagement initiatives, ensuring their effectiveness in reaching audiences. She manages the education, awareness, and communications unit for CERI, which includes developing a training series on best practices in translational science research and community engagement, developing wrap-around communications to disseminate outcomes of project implementation, developing newsletters, managing website content, tracking program deliverables, and overseeing the repository for community-engaged research at Duke through the CERI e-library.