Academic Faculty
Anita Farel, MSW, PhD, anita_farel@unc.edu
A faculty member in the department of MCH, SPH, for 18 years, Dr. Farel specializes in program and policy development for children with special health care needs and their families. She has worked with state Title V programs to improve the ability of program staff to collect, analyze and use data. She is currently directing a project that focuses on conducting such training using the World Wide Web. Dr. Farel assists in the review, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum modules for the MCH Public Health Social Work Leadership Training Program.
Sharon Holmes, MSW, sholmes@email.unc.edu
Ms Holmes is the Director of the UNC-CH School of Social Work Part-time Program in Durham. She devotes her time on the project to the development and implementation of a plan for minority recruitment. In addition to that role, she joins other faculty in working with issues related toward program level cultural competency. Ms Holmes has had experience working in MCH as the Coordinator of a county Adolescent Parenting Program and as a member of several advisory groups for MCH agencies.
Jane Perkins, JD, MPH, perkins@healthlaw.org
Jane Perkins is a staff attorney at the National Health Law Program, a civil rights organization working for justice in health care on behalf of low-income people. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Social Work, where she teaches health policy. Ms. Perkins focuses on managed care, health care for poor children, Medicaid, and discrimination in the delivery of health care. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles on the legal aspects of these issues and has engaged in extensive litigation concerning them. She also provides legal assistance and training to consumer advocates and health care consumers.
Kathleen Rounds, PhD, MPH, MSW, karounds@email.unc.edu
Chair of the Health Concentration and Director of the MCH Leadership Training Program, Dr. Rounds teaches courses on development. In addition to advocating for continuing education for public health social workers, she was the Project Director for "Beyond Year 2010: Public Health Social Work Practice". Dr. Rounds is the evaluator for Horizons Program, a perinatal substance abuse program; as well as Co-PI on a project evaluating the North Carolina Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative. She has also been involved in several community-based interdisciplinary health efforts.
Training Site Faculty
Mary Linker, MSW, MPH
Ms. Linker graduated from UNC-CH Dual Degree Program for Social Work and Public Health in 1994. Since that time she has worked at the Chatham County Health Department in several positions. Ms. Linker has worked as a Maternity Care Coordinator (MCC). She has also supervised the Maternal Outreach Worker (MOW) program and acted as Team Leader for the MCC, MOW, and Child Service Coordination (CSC) programs. As the Social Work Supervisor, she created the Family Outreach Services Division, which now has nine programs and a staff of 16. She is currently the Director of Family Outreach Services at the Chatham County Health Department. Recently, Ms. Linker has implemented an intensive home visiting demonstration project (Healthy Families Chatham) and an Adolescent Parenting Program.
Connie Renz, MSW
Ms Renz directs the Horizons Program, a perinatal substance abuse program, and teaches Family Violence as an Adjunct Clinical Instructor at the School of Social Work. Ms. Renz has been a field instructor for over ten years and has extensive experience in the fields of child abuse, violence against women, perinatal substance abuse, and outreach programs for pregnant and postpartum women.
Julia Searl Rusert, PhD, LCSW
As a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Social Work Section Head of The Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning (the University’s LEND Program), Dr. Rusert provides considerable experience as a Program field instructor. Her area of expertise is children with special health care needs and disabilities.
Sarah Verbiest, MSW, MPH
As the Director of the Eastern Branch of the NC March of Dimes, Ms Verbiest is an experienced field instructor, providing excellent opportunities for trainees to develop skills in working with coalitions, designing, marketing and implementing programs, writing and reviewing grant proposals, and program evaluation. Ms Verbiest is a graduate of the Dual Degree Program at UNC-CH.
Web Development
Michael Best, michael@bestware.us
Michael Best is a computer software consultant who has worked with the School of Social Work on a number of projects.
Trainees
Kathy Colville, kathyc@email.unc.edu
Kathy Colville grew up in Kentucky and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature from Brown University. After college, she was a Bosch Foundation Fellow at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität in the northeast corner of Germany; a Public Ally at Mary Phillips High School in Raleigh, NC; and directed the community center at Githens Middle School in Durham, NC. She also completed a year-long teaching fellowship at Eagle Rock School (Estes Park, CO), a tuition-free, residential high school designed to address the national problem of high school drop-out rates. She is currently a Schweitzer Fellow working with the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office’s Domestic Violence Unit on a project to improvement law enforcement’s response to family violence. She also likes to swim, bake, and grow orchids.
Erin Cox, eccox@email.unc.edu
After receiving a BA in Psychology, Erin Cox worked for a breast cancer research project at Georgetown University while volunteering as a victim advocate with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She then went on to pursue graduate degrees at UNC in the Schools of Social Work and Public Health with a concentration in maternal and child health. Last year as a social work intern, she was a home visitor for a child abuse prevention program at the local health department. She provided parent education and case management for young at-risk families. Erin spent the summer as an AHEC fellow, where she created a resource directory for public schools to access training on child and adolescent mental health topics. Currently, she serves as a co-coordinator of SHAC (a free, student-run community health clinic), where she trains and manages social work volunteers. She is also involved with a SHAC outreach project that is working to establish a teen health clinic. Her experiences are varied, but her primary interests include adolescent health and teenage pregnancy prevention.
Lisa Glenn, lzeytoon@email.unc.edu
Lisa Glenn is a dual degree student in social work and maternal and child health. Her focus in her graduate studies has been on the environmental influences of childhood overweight and obesity and various preventive methods. She spent part the summer of 2005 consulting to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, helping the Nutrition and Physical Activity Unit to assess the causes of, and possible solutions for, an ailing statewide obesity prevention coalition (the Partnership for Healthy Weight). Prior to going back to graduate school, Lisa spent more than four years working as a consultant for a negotiation and relationship and conflict management consulting firm, Vantage Partners, a spinoff of the Harvard Negotiation Project. She also spent the first two years following her college graduation doing research for Abt Associates, a social and economic policy research firm. Lisa graduated from Dartmouth College in 1998. She hopes to pursue a career related to childhood overweight and obesity prevention.
Dari Jigjidsuren, dari@email.unc.edu
Dari Jigjidsuren is a native of Mongolia. Before coming to the United States to study at UNC, she worked for nine years in Mongolia as a program coordinator, translator, researcher, and consultant for a number of educational and health-related organizations, including the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, Save the Children-UK, and the International Step by Step Program. She earned a bachelor’s in Teaching Russian and English and a master’s in linguistics from the School of the Humanities in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Kati LeTourneau, kati.letourneau@gmail.com
Kati LeTourneau grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her bachelor's in sociology and anthropology, with a concentration in Latin American studies, from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota (the town of cows, colleges and contentment). She spent several years in Chicago and then the gulf goast of Florida, where she began working for Planned Parenthood. She is currently working on a masters in social work and a masters in public health, with a concentration in maternal and child health, at UNC. Kati hopes to pursue a career advocating for reproductive justice. Outside interests include riding her motorcycle, hiking, and kayaking with her dog and partner.
Chris Ormsby, ormsbyc@email.unc.edu
Chris Ormsby received a BA in psychology in 1996 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after which he served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Taroudant, Morocco. Upon returning to the United States, Chris coordinated a family support program for women, youth, and children impacted by HIV/AIDS, after which he worked as the director of a HIV prevention program targeting women and youth. Prior to returning to UNC, Chris spent six months in Kitale, Kenya, working on a HIV program development project with a nonprofit NGO, focusing on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, adolescent peer education, and HIV voluntary counseling and testing. Chris is currently pursuing master’s degrees at UNC in the School of Social Work and the Department of Maternal and Child Health in the School of Public Health. His current work and research interests include adolescent sexual and reproductive health, birth outcome disparities, international women’s health, sexual violence, and the integration of HIV/AIDS prevention and family planning programs in less-developed regions.
Crystal Russell, cerussel@email.unc.edu
Crystal Russell grew up in Chicago and graduated from Duke University in 2004. She is working toward a dual degree in social work and public health with a concentration in maternal and child health. Her main interests include the prevention of adolescent pregnancy and curbing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. She is also interested in promoting healthy pregnancies and nurturing mother-child relationships among female prisoners.
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