Colette McAfee

Experience

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  Douglas J Aveda Institute

  Jul 2008 - Apr 2010

  Guest Services Keyholder

  As a keyholder, I was responsible for opening and closing money registers, opening and closing the store, leading the team, interacting with my team and the guests, and mastering scheduling and time-management skills.

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  University of Michigan School of Public Health

  Sept 2010 - Apr 2012

  MPH Health Behavior and Health Education Student
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  Prevention Research Center

  May 2011 - Jul 2012

  Graduate Student Researcher

  One of the many projects conducted through the PRC/MI is the Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) project, which is the project that I worked on during my internship. YES is an after-school project for youth in grades 7-8 in which they complete a community project, and follow a curriculum for developing leadership skills, community pride, program planning, intergenerational communication, and cultural awareness. During this internship, I helped further develop the curriculum and prepare it for copyright, created multicultural variations of the curriculum for different populations, attended and helped facilitate the teacher training for the YES teachers and site coordinators, and surveyed youth from middle schools in Flint. With this work, I wanted to better my knowledge of community-based research, gain more experience in surveying and evaluation techniques, and expand my familiarity of working with populations of different ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities, which I feel was all accomplished by working with the PRC/MI on the YES project. Show less

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  University of Toledo

  Aug 2012 - Jul 2015

  • Demonstrated versatility and employed creative techniques in instructing by implementing interesting and engaging activities• Displayed leadership and reliability by informally mentoring another graduate teaching assistant, in addition to undergraduate students• Collaborated with professors, doctoral graduate assistants, MPH students, and undergraduates on research projects and community service

  • PhD Student in Health Education

    Aug 2012 - Jul 2015

  • Doctoral Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2012 - May 2015
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  Westminster University

  Aug 2015 - now

  - Teach a variety of public health courses at undergraduate and graduate level, including Principles of Public Health and Health Promotion (MPH), Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health (UG), Health Promotion and Education (UG), Public Health Capstone (Research) (UG and MPH), Public Health Practicum (MPH), Introduction to Public Health (UG), and Death and Dying from a Public Health Perspective (UG).- Mentor and advise undergraduate and graduate students on research projects- Present at national and local public health conferences- Develop course curriculum and objectives- Create and evaluate student assignments, including group work, presentations, papers, and exams- Prepare detailed lesson plans based on course objectives- Collaborate with public health professors on academic projects Show less

  • Associate Professor of Public Health

    Aug 2020 - now

  • Director, Baccalaureate Public Health Program

    Aug 2019 - now

  • Assistant Professor of Public Health

    Aug 2015 - Aug 2020