Experience

de Beaumont Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President and Chief Executive Officer

  • Mar 2018 - Present

• Chief Program and Strategy Officer

  • 2012 - Feb 2018

  • Established a vision for Foundation grant-making and impact of part grant maker and part think tank supporting nonprofit partners through traditional grants but also developing and implementing programs and research projects (http://goo.gl/qmvszU)• Developed and implemented national programs to fill key gaps in public health knowledge and promote improved collaborative relationships across sectors to promote improved health outcomes• Conceived and co-developed a project to align more than 30 public health leadership groups to identify cross-cutting training needs (see Thinking beyond the silos: Emerging priorities in workforce development for state and local government public health agencies (http://goo.gl/V4fjR3) • Media Outreach – Conducted interviews with Inside Philanthropy, the Nation’s Health, healthcare informatics, Hospital and Health Networks Magazine, Measure of Everyday Life, Public Health Newswire, APHA TV (For examples see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXEKcqHaFrY, http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2014/11/24/what-this-new-funder-collaborative-says-about-the-state-of-p.html) • Public speaking – 24 invited presentations, trainings, plenaries, and keynotes (For example see Creating the Healthiest Nation through System Change at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RbtirhRAE0)• Writing – Co-authored 22 peer-reviewed publications, co-authored 8 book chapters, and edited 1 book. Contributed thought leadership through several platforms: Huffington Post, Primary Care Progress Notes, KevinMD.com, Healthcare Leadership Blog at HCLDR.org, ASTHO’s StatePublicHealth.org, and Health Affairs Grantwatch Blog (See What do bridges and public health have in common? at http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/02/bridges-public-health-common.html; The privilege of choice at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-castrucci/the-privilege-of-choice_1_b_9646318.html)



Georgia Department of Public Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• MCH and WIC Director

  • 2010 - 2012

  • Implemented strategies to prevent potential fraud in Georgia’s WIC program by actively engaging participating vendors and applying analytic techniques to existing data to identify potential policy strategies (http://goo.gl/oP71n3) • Authored Georgia’s nationally recognized Title V MCH Services Block Grant Five-Year Needs Assessment that engaged more than 180 community stakeholders including Medicaid enrollees, parents of children with special health care needs, and providers in 16 focus groups and culminated in a statewide meeting to prioritize maternal and child health needs (http://goo.gl/VD4ySN) • Fostered a relationship with the Georgia Women’s Legislative Caucus resulting in two presentations (June 2010, February 2011) to increase legislative attention to critical maternal and child health issues• Pioneered a strategy to use geospatial tools and available data to target public health and clinic health interventions to improve infant health outcomes at the sub-state level and more efficiently utilize limited resources (http://goo.gl/FaeAOc)• Expanded the reach of public health messaging through radio, television, and print media interviews and appearances (e.g., http://dph.georgia.gov/blog/2013-09-04/dph-partners-919-fm-wclk-promote-better-health-wider-audiences) • Provided statewide leadership in the field of maternal and child health through 7 invited presentations, trainings, plenaries, and keynotes; 1 report; 2 peer reviewed publications



Texas Department of State Health Services

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director I

  • 2006 - 2009

  • Completed two statewide comprehensive needs assessments as part of the state’s successful Title V and Title X grant applications leading to continued and increased funding• Initiated and oversaw development of and updates to agency position statements including the DSHS Position Statement on Infant Feeding (http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/wichd/lactate/position.shtm) and Statewide Child Fatality Review Team position statements on fire burns, child suicide, water safety, motor vehicle safety, and safe sleep (https://www.dshs.texas.gov/mch/child_fatality_review.shtm) • Partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local partners in Mexico to lead a collaborative, bi-national analysis of data collected through the Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project (http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2008/oct/toc.htm)• Developed and implemented a statewide breastfeeding attitudes and practices survey through the Texas WIC program to inform breastfeeding promotion practices in local WIC agencies (http://goo.gl/ggzs6c and http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/wichd/nut/neplan.shtm)• Collaborated with the University of Texas School of Public Health led to implementation of a surveillance system to monitor physical activity and nutrition among 4th, 8th, and 11th grade students (https://goo.gl/EZ6nZ5)• Conducted legislative bill analysis, responded to legislative requests for information, testified at legislative committee hearings, and developed legislative implementation plans • Partnered with the Department of Family and Protective Services to apply analytic techniques to primary and secondary data to improve the safety of early care and learning centers and health outcomes of children who were the victims of abuse and/or neglect• Provided statewide leadership in the field of maternal and child health through 15 invited presentations, trainings, plenaries, and keynotes; 10 reports; 17 peer reviewed publications



Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • 2004 - 2006



Temple University - School of Social Work

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Adjunct Instructor

  • 2004 - 2006



City of Philadelphia – Department of Public Health

• United States
• Government Administration
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Assistant Division Director

  • 2003 - 2005

  • Doubled the number of supervised staff through a strategic re-organization of staff resources• Conceptualized, wrote, and implemented request for proposals processes to select providers to implement citywide home visiting and case management services• Standardized budget practices and measurement/data collection procedures across home visiting programs• Developed and executed a research agenda addressing broad topics in urban maternal, child and family health policy and perinatal epidemiology• Conducted a natural experiment of the impact of lactation consultants on infant breastfeeding rates among all births and those births subject to a neonatal intensive care unit admission (see Castrucci BC et al. Availability of lactation counseling services influences breastfeeding among mothers of infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2007;21(5):410-5; Castrucci BC et al. Comparison of breastfeeding rates in an urban birth cohort among women delivering infants in hospitals that employ and do not employ lactation consultants. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2006;12(6):578-85.)) • Designed an enhanced data collection tool for infant death scene investigations• Engaged political leaders by presenting natality and mortality data by city council district • Implemented more rigorous evaluation methods to assess the impact of contracted activities and identify and implement any necessary programmatic alterations• Drafted and presented a board of health regulation to make births reportable to the local department of health



Consultant (Self-Employed)

• Tobacco Control Research Consultant for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • 1999 - 2003



Brooklyn College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructor

  • 2000 - 2002



Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Program Intern

  • 1998 - 1999