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D Jean McClelland MLS

D Jean  McClelland MLS

Program Director for Community Based Health Information Resources

Health Promotion Sciences Department

jmcc@arizona.edu

1295 N. Martin Avenue
Drachman Hall A202
PO Box: 245209
Tucson AZ 85724
(520) 626-8228

https://lib.arizona.edu/people/jean-mcclelland

Biography

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.

Research Synopsis

Jean McClelland now collaborates primarily on evidence synthesis projects in public health. She has worked extensively as a program evaluator on projects including the Kidenga App for community education and surveillance of mosquito-borne illnesses (dengue, chikungunya, Zika, etc.); development of non pharmaceutical interventions and public health messaging about respiratory illness, mosquito- borne and other communicable illnesses; integration of Community Health Workers (CHWs) or Promotor@s de Salud into the clinical system of care in community health centers, particularly for patients with diabetes and/or hypertension. She has been PI on community assessments and program evaluation contracts to address mobile advocacy response to victims of domestic violence, as well as access to care issues for refugees resettled to Tucson; for 15 years she provided technical assistance for Coordinated Community Response to victims of domestic and sexual violence, working with task forces in seven southern Arizona counties focusing on capacity building for key service providers in ensuring the rights of immigrant survivors, funded by the US Department of Justice; coordinated the REACH 2010 evaluation of a comprehensive diabetes prevention project with Migrant Health Promotion, working towards reduction of health disparities in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Challenges to Farmworker Health project in Yuma, focusing on health effects of farm work in an anti-immigrant political climate and militarized border context, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); the Building Healthy Neighborhoods project with the Drachman Institute at the University of Arizona, working with Empowerment Zone neighborhoods in Tucson to address healthy lifestyles in connection to the built environment, funded by US Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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