Partner Spotlight

	Alice J. Hausman, PhD, MPH – PCVPC Research Core Co-Director. Alice has translated her background in anthropology and population sciences to program planning and evaluation of community health programs. Although she has performed research in a variety of fields, including youth violence prevention, emergency preparedness, and public health practice, community-based participatory research is an underlying, unifying theme of her work...read more.
	Nicole Vaughn, PhD – PCVPC Communication and Dissemination (C&D) Core member and Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of the Centerpiece Project. As a research health psychologist with a focus on reducing health disparities, Nicole has extensive experience in community-based participatory research (CBPR) with ethnic minority groups. She brings this expertise to her role as Co-PI of PCVPC’s Centerpiece Project. In this role, Nicole is integrally involved in the project by directing the Community Mobilization Team (CMT), which works to foster and build relationships with the intervention sites across West and Southwest Philadelphia...read more.
	Thomas Ten Have, PhD, MPH – PCVPC Information Core Co-Director. Tom’s background was primarily in the design and analysis of behavioral intervention studies in the areas of mental health, AIDS, and asthma, where the focus is on treatments for current disease. In addition to bringing his expertise to PCVPC projects, Tom learned much from being a PCVPC member, particularly in working with the community to design studies and refine research messages based on their perspective...read more.
	Nicole Thomas, MBA – PCVPC Community Liaison Coordinator. Nicole is actively involved in PCVPC’s Research and Communication and Dissemination Cores, working on both Small Study 1: Living Health in Philadelphia and the Centerpiece Project, as well as developing communication tools such as community issue briefs, workshops, and symposia. She also serves as a critical, intra-Center link by regularly participating in meetings across all four Cores of PCVPC...read more.