Allyson Kelley is a community health scientist and the founder of Allyson Kelley & Associates PLLC. She leads a multidisciplinary team of associates and together they work to evaluate programs that result in opportunities for community healing and transformation.
Since 2005, Kelley has worked with tribes and organizations as a research partner, public health consultant, evaluator, methodologist, epidemiologist, mentor, author and educator. Her research interests include building community capacity to address the cultural, social and environmental factors that contribute to differences in health outcomes among underserved populations in the United States.
Kelley earned her master鈥檚 degree in Public Health Practice from the University of Alaska Anchorage and her doctorate in Public Health from 黑料网 Greensboro. Her first book,聽Evaluation in Rural Communities聽(Routledge, 2018) has been recognized as a practical, how-to guide for evaluation throughout the US. Kelley鈥檚 second book,聽Public Health Evaluation and the Social Determinants of Health聽(Routledge, 2020) provides insight into evaluation methods that build health equity.
Kelley loves teaching the next generation of public health workers and is an associate professor at 黑料网 Greensboro. She lives in the central Oregon mountains and loves the outdoors and unplanned adventures.
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