Health & Wellness Webinars in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Saturday, August 29, 2020, at 9:30 AM – Rural Healthcare Response to COVID-19 Threats and Options Presenter: Dr. Justine Maxwell, DrPH, MPH, Epidemiology, Tennessee Department of Health
Dr. Justine Maxwell, and epidemiologist by training, serves as an Informatician with the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) Office of Informatics and Analytics. In this role, she leads the strategic public health reporting and informatics unit supporting department-wide public health information system interoperability, cross-cutting informatics projects, and Tennessee’s drug overdose reporting program. Prior to this position, Dr. Maxwell served as an Epidemiologist within TDH’s Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness division.
Dr. Maxwell’s experience includes ten years of public health work in academic, private, and state government settings focused on improving surveillance activities and the timely delivery of quality data to support decision-making and improve health outcomes.
Dr. Maxwell holds a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and Human Biology from Emory University, a Master of Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in Health Information Technology from George Washington University, and a Doctor of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Kentucky. She is currently a PhD student in Health Informatics, Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.