Faculty/Staff Christine E. Ley, PhD, MPH, MSW

Associate Professor

Graduate School of Public Health
216 Parran Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Phone: 412-624-3162
Fax: 412-624-5510
E-mail: chrisley@pitt.edu

RESEARCH

My research interests are in maternal and child health, community health for the rural and urban underserved, rural health, and continuing education for community health professionals.

TEACHING

I teach BCHS 2599 Public Health Approaches to Women’s Health.

SERVICE

I regularly serve on review panels in the area of primary care and community health for the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, e.g., technical advisory panel for the evaluation of Healthy Start, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, rural interdisciplinary training objective committee, Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, Preventive Medicine Training, Urban Maternal and Child Health Leadership Perinatal Periods of Risk for the Allegheny County Health Department, the American Public Health Association social work section, and the Center for Minority Health health disparities committee on infant mortality.

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Articles/Abstracts:

• Ley, CE, Carr Copeland, V, Squire Flint, C, White, JS, Wexler, S.  “Community-based Perinatal Depression Services for African American women:  The Healthy Start model”  Journal of Social Work and Public Health, 2008, Vol. 24(6) (in press)
• Ley, CE, Carr-Copeland, V, Squire Flint, C.  “Healthy Start Program Participation:  The Consumers’ Perspective”  Journal of Social Work and Public Health, 2008,   Vol. 24(4). (in press)
• Ley, C, "Preconception Chronic Disease Management for African American Women”, Preconception Care Annual Conference, Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 2007, Oakland, CA.
• Ley, C, "Sustainability Strategies", Annual Centers for Disease Control STEPS Meeting, June 4-6, 2007, Seattle, Washington.
• Ley, C, "Reducing Health Literacy Disparities", Annual Centers for Disease Control STEPS Meeting, June 4-6, 2007, Seattle, Washington.
• Ley, C, "Academic-Community MCH Partnerships:  The Healthy Start Model", Association for Maternal Child Health Programs (AMCHP), March 3-7, 2007, Arlington, VA.
• Ley, C, "Promoting Responsible Fatherhood: Healthy Start Inc.", National Healthy Marriages Conference, DHHS, Administration on Children & Families, December 13-15, 2006, Washington DC.
• Ley, C, "Multi-Site, Multi-Level Web Based Data Collection", Steps to a HealthierUS Cooperative Agreement Workshop, June 27-29, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Ley, C, "Building MCH Competencies with the Healthy Start Model", Annual National Healthy Start Meeting, June 14-16, 2006, Arlington, VA.
• Ley, C, "Increasing Diversity in Rural Community Health Leadership: the Healthy Start Consortia Model", 29th Annual Conference for National Rural Health Association, Reno, Nevada.
• Ley, C, "Addressing Population and Environmental Rural Health Disparities:  The PA-DE AHEC Model", 29th Annual Conference for National Rural Health Association, Reno, Nevada.
• Ley, C, "Improving Rural Population Health with Employer-Health Provider Community Collaboratives", 29th Annual Conference for National Rural Health Association, Reno, Nevada.
• Ley, C, "Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Healthy Start Learning Community for Continuous Competency Improvement (CCI)", Annual Meeting of the Association for Maternal and Child Health Programs,  March 3-9, Arlington, VA.
• Ley, C, "Strategies for collaboration between Area Health Education Center Programs and AIDS Education and Training Center", Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania/ MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center Consortium Meeting, Nov. 8-9, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Ley, C, "Public private partnerships for rural health promotion", Pennsylvania Public Health Association Conference, October 24-28, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Ley, C, "Public health partnerships for continuing professional education", Pennsylvania Public Health Association Conference, October 24-28, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA.
• (Ley, C, Flint, C) “Building a comprehensive service system for rural Appalachian African American pregnant women and their families,” 11th Annual Rural Minority and Multicultural Health Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 2005.

• (Ley, C, Flint, C, & Hall, A) “Eliminating Child Health Disparities by a Partnership of Parents, Neighbors and Communities: The Pgh./Allegh. Co. Healthy Start Model.” 2nd International Conference on Patient and Family Centered Care, San Francisco, CA, February 2005.