Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Lassiter D

Nebraska Center for Healthy Families Project, Doris Lassiter Consulting, LLC, USA

Biography

Mrs. Lassiter worked as a Major Markets Executive in the health insurance industry for over 15 years prior to serving as director of the Omaha Housing Authority’s FirstStep Community Integrated Service System  Infant Mortality Project in 1992. Mrs. Lassiter established the first Healthy Start Initiative in Nebraska, an Infant Mortality Reduction Program that continues to this day under the leadership of Charles Drew Community Health Center. She served as Director for Nebraska’s Healthy Marriage Initiative and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs.

Publications

The Center for Promoting Health and Health Equality’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Program

African-Americans in Douglas County, Nebraska, experience above-average incidence of death and disability from chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease. Current screening and education services are independent and poorly available to minority citizens. Despite communities’ progress in addressing health disparities, barriers preve... Read More»

Kosoko-Lasaki O, Stone JR, Smith J, Brown RL, Harris T, Sanders R, Jackson S, Lassiter D, McMorris K, Issaka S and Klimowicz J

Research Article: J Community Med Health Educ 7:530

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000530

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