Mary Quandt serves as Program Coordinator for the Technology Assisted Care Continuation for Substance Use Treatment (TACC) and Housing initiatives. To this role she brings skills and experience in research, grant writing, coalition-building, and evaluation. Prior to BHN, Mary worked with the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation (WWHF), where she piloted a new standard-of-care texting intervention to reduce prenatal substance use and to provide support for breastfeeding mothers. She also helped coordinate a state-wide collaboration of nurse educators, engaged vulnerable populations in participatory program development, and applied rigorous research methods to evaluation of WWHF programming. From 2013 to 2015 she served in the U.S. Peace Corps (Albania), where she worked with diverse stakeholder groups – from village clinics to the Ministry of Public Health – to implement USAID-funded trainings for rural nurses on breast and cervical cancer screening. Mary received her Master of Public Health from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and her Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was selected to be a 2019 Fellow of the New Leaders Council, the leading progressive leadership development institute for young professionals in the United States. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Program and volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri.
Presentation(s):
Technology Assisted Care Coordination Texting & Telecoaching for Recovery