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Bio
Rebekah Lewis is the director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health. She is a senior-level program evaluation specialist with more than 15 years of experience in health and higher education settings. In her prior role at the Ottawa University Heart Institute, she provided program evaluation and qualitative research expertise for a variety of women’s cardiovascular disease prevention projects at the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Centre.
Previously, she served as the program evaluation lead for health professions in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University and held positions as a course lecturer and research associate at McGill and the University of California’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health.
Her work has been featured in the Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, Contraception, and the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, among other publications. Her current research focuses on improving primary prevention of cardiovascular disease among high-risk women.
She received a master of public health from Boston University School of Public Health in 2001.