Celebrating community voices: Hamilton’s new role at WashU aims to boost public health and research in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, MO – Ebony Hamilton has been selected as a Fellow in Cohort VIII of the Community Research Fellows Training Program at Washington University.
The Community Research Fellows Training Program (CRFT) is a comprehensive 17-week public health research training course through the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities at Washington University School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center. The program is modeled after WashU’s master’s degree in public health curriculum and provides an introduction to public health research. Lectures are led by faculty from WashU and other institutions, including Saint Louis University, and local community health focused organizations. The lessons feature lectures, hands-on activities, and thought-provoking discussion groups. Topics covered include public health and health disparities research methods and ethics, structural racism, health literacy, community health, clinical trials, cultural competency, policy research, grant writing, and community organizing.
Hamilton is a Maternal Child Group Coordinator, Community Health, with Affinia Healthcare, a community health center in St. Louis. In this role, she is responsible for managing the daily operations of Affinia Healthcare’s Group Care Pregnancy and Parenting programs, following the EleVATE model. A certified doula, Hamilton also serves as a key liaison between internal departments and external organizations that require information or collaboration related to Affinia Healthcare’s group care programs. Her responsibilities include maintaining the program database to accurately track participant outcomes, benchmark data, and other grant required metrics.
Hamilton earned her bachelor’s degree in Health Science at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. She has worked at Affinia Healthcare for two years.
About Affinia Healthcare
Affinia Healthcare is an award-winning, nationally accredited community health center, providing affordable primary and preventive health care for St. Louis, Missouri, area residents. Affinia Healthcare is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and is accredited through The Joint Commission and National Committee of Quality Assurance organizations. Established in 1906 as the Holy Cross Dispensary, Affinia Healthcare today serves over 43,700 people per year, of whom more than 90 percent have incomes under 100 percent of the federal poverty level. Approximately 70 percent of patients served are Black or African American, 11 percent are Hispanic/Latinx, and over 4,000 are un-housed.
The Affinia Healthcare Foundation helps support the mission of our community health center by providing funding to serve the unmet healthcare needs of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised in our community. The Foundation depends on a wide array of funding sources and individual donor contributions to fund the care for these communities. To make a donation to the Affinia Healthcare Foundation, please visit www.affiniahealthcare.org/donate. For more information about Affinia Healthcare, call 314-814-8700, or visit www.affiniahealthcare.org
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