Assistant Librarian | Program Director, Community Based Health Information Resources
Jean McClelland has worked as a program evaluator and community-based collaborative researcher in Arizona's rural and border communities since 1990, providing technical assistance, resource and workforce development related to chronic illness, violence, systems change, health disparities and social justice for programs serving traditionally marginalized people, including immigrants, farmworkers and refugees. At present, Jean McClelland provides technical assistance to the North Country Health Care in Flagstaff, AZ, and the Neighborhood Outreach Access to Health clinics in Maricopa County to train community health workers CHWs) and provide qualitative evaluation for the integration of CHWs into their hypertension and diabetes clinical care teams. She has recently headed uthe qualitative evaluation efforts for the Kidenga Apfor community education and surveillance of mosquito-borne illnesses including dengue, chikungunya and Zika) and a non pharmaceutical interventions and public health messaging effort addressing flu, mosquito- borne and other communicable illnesses. She is responsible for the content management of the college's Outreach link on the website, in support of the Community Engaged Practice and Scholarshio CEPAS) committee, and its service learning opportunities. She has led three annual interprofessional service learning experiences in Ambos Nogales, with the most recent two and current August 4-6, 2017) bringing together students from the four AHSC colleges, and health professions students from three academic institutions in Sonora, Mexico, focusing on community engagemed approaches to health equity. In addition, she is faculty on the Border Health Service Learning Institute, now in its 10th year, which will take place in Douglas, AZ and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico in August 11-16, 2017. She continues to serve as co chair of the Refugee Primary Care Work Grouand co chair of the Pima County Immigrant Victims of Violence Task Force.