Kira
Rodriguez,
M.H.S.
Senior Research Associate
University of New England
Kira Rodriguez is a Senior Research Associate with the University of New England's (UNE) Center for Excellence in Public Health and has served as the Program Evaluator for UNE's Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Research (CAIEP) since 2014 . Ms. Rodriguez is also the lead evaluator for two HRSA funded health workforce programs at UNE: the Maine Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the Maine Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) training programs. She received her BA in Psychology from Brown University and her Master of Health Science (MHS) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Knowledge Exchange (KE) series seeks to fill gaps in topics not typically found in traditional health curriculum, underscoring social determinants of health and the voices of people with lived experience. In our lightening talk we will provide background on how KEs originated, the faculty buy-in they now receive, and the ways in which they successfully expose students from across professions to each other’s knowledge and expertise. To illustrate the KE model, we will describe an event that explored the critical intersection of oral health and recovery from substance use disorder (SUD),…