AIM for CHangE Partners and Team Members

AIM for CHangE is working with partners at the state and university levels:

• The Mississippi Public Health Institute leads coalition development and maintenance efforts.
• The University of Mississippi Medical Center provides expertise on health-related matters.
• The MSU Social Science Research Center leads our evaluation efforts.
• Project faculty at MSU are from the Departments of Agricultural Economics; Food Science, Nutrition, and Health Promotion; Kinesiology; Landscape Architecture; and the Center for Government and Community Development.

Project Team Members – June, 2019

Dr. David Buys, MSPH, CPH
Project Codirector
State Health Specialist, MSU Extension Service
MSU Department of Food Science, Nutrition, and Health Promotion
P.O. Box 9805
Mississippi State, MS 39762
[email protected]
662-325-3060 (office)
662-769-9830 (cell)

 

Dr. Angela Robertson
Lead Evaluator
Research Professor and Associate Director of the MSU Social Science Research Center
1 Research Blvd., Suite 103
Starkville, MS 39759
[email protected]
662-325-7797 (office)
662-312-0822 (cell)

 

Dr. Connie Baird-Thomas
Evaluator
Assistant Research Professor
MSU Social Science Research Center
153 Mississippi Parkway
Canton, MS 39046
[email protected]
601-407-2742 (office)

 

Dr. Elizabeth Canales
Coinvestigator
Assistant Extension Professor
MSU Department of Agricultural Economics
MSU Extension Service
P.O. Box 5187
Mississippi State, MS 39762
[email protected]

 

Dr. Megan Holmes
Coinvestigator
Assistant Professor
MSU Department of Kinesiology
Mailstop 9575, McCarthy Gymnasium
Mississippi State, MS 39762
[email protected]  
662-325-2963 (office)
308-641-3576 (cell)

 

Dr. Curtis Lacy
Extension Delta Region Coordinator and Extension Professor
MSU Extension Service
Delta Research and Extension Center
P.O. Box 69
Stoneville, MS 38776
[email protected]
662-686-3268 (office)
 

 

Dr. Joshua Mann, MD, MPH
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor and Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine
John D. Bower School of Population Health, UMMC
2500 N. State St.
Jackson, MS 39216
[email protected]
601-815-8988 (office)

 

Peter Summerlin, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP
Coinvestigator
Assistant Professor
MSU Department of Landscape Architecture
P.O. Box 9725
Mississippi State, MS 39762
[email protected]  
662-325-3668 (office)
601-260-5200 (cell)

 

Leah Kemp
Director of the Carl Small Town Center
MSU Extension Service
240 Giles Hall
Mississippi State, MS 39762
[email protected]
662-325-8671 (office)

 

Alexis H. Hamilton
Extension Agent, AIM for CHangE
MSU Extension Service
Sharkey, Issaquena, Washington, and Sunflower Counties
614 Pine Street
Rolling Fork, MS 39159
[email protected]
662-769-2283 (office)

 

Yolanda Pruitt M.S., CHES
Program Manager
AIM for CHangE
MSU Extension Service
1 Research Blvd
Mississippi State, MS 39762
[email protected]
662-325-4293 (office)

 

 

 

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Keltra Chandler M.S.
Extension Associate II
AIM for CHangE
MSU Extension Service
1 Research Blvd
Mississippi State, MS 39762
[email protected]
662-325-4324 (office)