Melissa Claire Boeke, MS

 

Professional Experience

 

Sole Proprietor                                                                                        January 2011 - Present

EpiMachine, LLC                                                                                                    Saint Paul, MN

•    Voluntarily serve as Chair of the Minnesota State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup 

 

Training and Technical Assistance Specialist II                                      January 2011 - Present

Education Development Center, Inc.                                                                    Waltham, MA

•    Currently provide epidemiological training and technical assistance to ten states and seven tribes for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies Central Resource Team

 

Manager of Epidemiology and Assessment Services            September 2007 – January 2011

Minnesota Institute of Public Health                                                           Mounds View, MN

•    Served as Epidemiologist for the Minnesota State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup and the Red Lake Nation Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup

•    Served as a member of the executive management team, and supervise two positions: Senior Research Analyst and Biostatistician

•    Provided epidemiological training and technical assistance to ten states and seven tribes for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies Central Resource Team

•    Served as Program Evaluator for: the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Regional Network; Project Harmony; Red Lake’s Creating Restitution and Following Traditions (CRAFT); and a Suicide Awareness Voices of Education prevention campaign

•    Managed a project involving an estimation of the human and economic cost of alcohol use in Minnesota for the Minnesota Department of Health

 

Project Assistant                                                                            September 2005 – May 2007

University of Wisconsin—Madison Population Health Institute                         Madison, WI

•    Assisted with needs assessments and program evaluation for the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (GLITC) HIV/AIDS Program and Honoring Our Children (HOC) Project.

•    Evaluated and assisted in the planning of the 2006 and 2007 American Indian Health and Science Symposiums as a member of the Native American Health Working Group.

•    Created the Population Health Institute’s monthly e-newsletter.

 

Project Assistant                                                                                  January 2007 – May 2007

University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Nursing                                          Madison, WI

•    Assisted with the creation of a survey instrument to be administered to Wisconsin health officers serving small jurisdictions, and their core public health system partners.

 

Education

 

Master of Science, Population Health Sciences                                                                  2007

University of Wisconsin                                                                                              Madison, WI

 

Bachelor of Arts, Women’s Studies                                                                                      1997

University of Minnesota                                                                                     Minneapolis, MN

 

Memberships

 

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)

 

Publications & Reports

 

Clarke J, Louricas M, Griffin T, Lewis R, Boeke M. The Human and Economic Cost of Alcohol Use in Minnesota. Minnesota Department of Health and Minnesota Department of Human Services, March 2011.

 

Boeke M, Griffin T, Reidenberg D. The physician’s role in suicide prevention: lessons learned from a public awareness campaign. Minnesota Medicine. Vol. 94; No. 1, January 2011.

 

Substance Use in Minnesota (SUMN). Boeke M. 2008.  Minnesota Department of Human Services, State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup.  www.sumn.org

 

Boeke MC, Zahner SJ, Booske BC, Remington PL.  Local public health department funding: trends over time and relationship to health outcomes.  Wisconsin Medical Journal. 2008 Feb; 107(1):25-32.

 

Kempf AM, Boeke MC, Booske BC, Remington PL.  Results from the 2006 Wisconsin County Health Rankings User Survey.  University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute Brief Report, Vol. 2; No. 2, August 2007.

 

Boeke MC, Booske BC, Remington PL.  Interpreting the Rankings for Menominee County.  University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute Special Report, 2006.