Lori Carter-Edwards, PhD, MPH, oversees the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine’s strategic efforts to engage with community partners in the city of Pasadena and across the wider Los Angeles County area, working with stakeholders in the non-profit, healthcare, government, faith-based-and social services sectors. A nationally recognized expert in community engaged research, Dr. Carter-Edwards previously served as Associate Professor in the Public Health Leadership Program at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health; as Director of the Community and Stakeholder Engagement (CaSE) Program with the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS); and as Co-Director of the Academic Career Leadership Academy in Medicine. She has 25 years of experience conducting observational studies, interventions, and programs—including numerous grant-funded projects—with emphasis on social determinants of health associated with cardiovascular-related risk factors and outcomes in African American faith communities. She has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and books.
Lori is currently the national co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Task Force for the national Consortium of the Clinical Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS). She holds that position given her adjunct faculty appointment at UNC Chapel Hill, home of the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS). She is also the faculty lead for the Equity Evidence Academy series with the Rapid Acceleration in Diagnostics for Underserved Populations (RADx-UP), an NIH-funded initiative to address COVID-19 testing and testing technologies in communities of greatest impact in the United States.