Jean McClelland currently serves as the “embedded” liaison librarian to the entire college of public health, as an Assistant Librarian with the Arizona Health Sciences Library. She has a joint appointment in Health Promotion Sciences where, up until 2018 she worked as a program evaluator and community-based collaborative researcher in Arizona's rural and border communities. She engaged in this prior work 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. She has worked closely with community health worker initiatives, and for many years provided technical assistance to coordinated community response teams addressing sexual assault and intimate partner violence in Arizona’s seven southern counties. She has also led numerous Rural Service-Learning courses in the Globe-Miami-San Carlos region, and numerous Binational, Interprofessional Service-Learning experiences at the US-Mexico border for students in the Arizona Health Sciences and in partner universities and colleges in Sonora, Mexico.

Education

2003, MLS, Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona

1990, BA, Sociolinguistics and Women Studies, University of Arizona

Collaboration & Training Interests

Health information literacy; access to healthcare; One Health; climate change; community-based, participatory research; vulnerable populations; social justice, advocacy and policy; occupational health and safety.