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Holly C. Felix, PhD, MPA Assistant Professor |
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| Dr. Felix
combines a unique background in public health
program practice with health services and public
health research. Prior to embarking on an
academic career, Dr. Felix worked in local
government for many years, administrating
“non-traditional local government” programs such
as ones which offered substance abuse and gang
prevention, intervention and treatment services
(among others) to city residents; and served in
the administration of a community-based
organization which provided social services
(e.g. home delivered meals, non-emergency
medical transportation, and adult day care) to
senior citizens. Dr. Felix has taken this real
world experience and applied it to her research
efforts which currently include the evaluation
of the Arkansas Women’s Health Waiver, the
evaluation of the Community Connector Project,
and a study examining referral practices of
family planning providers and referral
follow-through of family planning clients in
Arkansas and Alabama. Dr. Felix aims to focus
future research on the long-term care system,
with special focus on home and community-based
alternatives to institutionalization and the
impact of obesity on the long-term care system. Dr. Felix’s real world experience, especially from local government with its citizen input through elected representatives and community task forces, has also been critical to the development of her orientation toward in community-based participatory research (CBPR) and program development/evaluation. Because of this orientation and her interest in the policy process, Dr. Felix, for her dissertation research, conducted an historical analysis of the factors and events which led to the development of the first dedicated CBPR initiative within NIH. Dr. Felix also serves as an Associate in the Office of Community-Based Public Health, which facilitates the use of CBPR among faculty, staff and students in their teaching, service and research activities. Dr. Felix graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a PhD in public policy, health policy specialization. She has a Master of Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. |
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