For the past eight years, Ms. Brown has worked with Stanly Regional Medical Center as a community health educator, while most recently serving as the department’s Health Promotion Coordinator for the last two years.

In addition to a B.S. in Biology as well as an Honors Degree from Belmont Abbey College, she holds a Master’s in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a certified instructor for the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine.

During her tenure, she has successfully developed and managed a workplace wellness program that began with Stanly Regional employees and has grown to involve 11 local businesses, in which over 1,200 people are enrolled. She was also instrumental in developing their local school wellness policy which was passed and implemented this year.

Along with working with many local health and wellness coalitions, she currently serves as President of the local County Manager’s Association and Vice-Chair of the county’s Healthy Carolinian task force – Partner’s in Health. She continues to gain an understanding of health promotion by attending both local and national conferences and am very active in advocating for Health Promotion legislation.

Since November of 2004, she has served as the North Carolina state representative for Health Promotion Advocates. She also began serving on the grassroots committee of Health Promotion Advocates in February of 2006. She was successful in gaining over 25 letters of support in the most recent campaign and have actively built North Carolinas list of Health Promotion Advocates. Most recently, I have been named as the regional contact for a newly-formed state group – North Carolina Coalition for Healthy Solutions.