Managing in Turbulent Times: Emerging Leaders in Public Health

Alumni

Coreen B. DomingoCoreen B. Domingo, BA, MPH, DrPH (ABD)

Program Manager, Baylor College of Medicine, Health Services Research Division, The Houston Center for Quality of Care & Utilization Studies

 

Area of work: Health Services Research

Coreen Domingo is the Program Manager for the Houston-EXCEED (EXcellence Centers to Eliminate Ethnic/racial Disparities) program; a 5-year, Baylor College of Medicine administered, $7.8 million federally funded research initiative spearheaded by the Agency for Health Research & Quality (AHRQ) to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in health care in U.S. populations.

In addition to managing the program budget and other day-to-day tasks associated with the research program, Ms. Domingo, also oversees the research dissemination component and is the community liaison between the EXCEED program and various community stakeholders.

Ms. Domingo's professional experience is varied but has primarily been in the non-profit, social service industries and in health promotion and health services research. Her research interests focus on the global impact of HIV/AIDS, issues of sexual identity and gender, issues of family violence/sexual assault, ethnic and racial disparities in health care particularly as seen in minority populations, and the role of doctor-patient communication on health care outcomes.

Personal Information:

Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Ms. Domingo now resides in Houston , Texas and has been part of that community for a number of years. She volunteers with a number of different organizations, mostly HIV/AIDS related. With a Bachelor's in Psychology and a Master's in Public Health, Ms. Domingo is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas , School of Public Health, in Houston, Texas.

What I would like to get out of this program:

Through this fellowship, I look forward to developing the leadership skills suitable to responding to the continually expanding and challenging field of public health and to learning strategies for implementing sound, proactive business practices that help make the most efficient use of limited resources. Within today's reality of dwindling health care and research dollars and competing priorities, I believe the cultivation of these skills to be part of the essential imperative for all public health practitioners.