Experience

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Associate Professor

  • Dec 2022 - Present



NC OSHERC

• United States
• Research Services

• Deputy Director

  • Jul 2021 - Present

• Director of Outreach and Continuing Education

  • Jan 2019 - Present



Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design and Worker Well-being

• Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Co-Director, Outreach Core, Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design and Worker Well-being

  • Sep 2021 - Present



Staley Consulting Services

• Consultant and Owner

  • 1998 - Present

  •Teach safety preparedness workshops to nurses and other health workforce members •Lead workshops on occupational health and safety to construction and general industry •Provide expertise as safety assessor of homes and businesses •Teach safety preparedness workshops to nurses and other health workforce members •Lead workshops on occupational health and safety to construction and general industry •Provide expertise as safety assessor of homes and businesses



Kent State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Office of Public Health Practice and Partnerships

  • 2010 - Jan 2019

  Provided active leadership role collaborating with colleagues to build the College of Public Health, with particular focus on creating bachelors, masters, and doctoral level degrees in public health. also engaged in research examining integrated health care, SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment) involving high risk populations for alcohol, substance abuse, and depression issues. Additionally conducted research in pre-hospital care with the emergency response community (e.g., firefighters, EMS, law enforcement) to prevent adverse health outcomes and increase operational readiness. Show less

• Graduate Studies Coordinator

  • Apr 2016 - Jan 2017

  Coordinate the Department of Health Policy and Management’s graduate studies program, with full Master's and Doctoral level curricula in Health Policy and Management.

• Undergraduate Programs Coordinator

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

  Direct and coordinate the Department of Health Policy and Management’s robust and growing undergraduate program, with a full curriculum and 300+ students in the Health Services Administration concentration alone. Additionally, responsible for modifying and creating new concentration offerings in Allied Health, Preparedness and Prevention, and expanded BSPH to MPH pathways.



University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Faculty Instructor

  • Jun 2009 - 2011

  Instruct health care and emergency management professional students how to apply cost benefit/effectiveness analysis to community related disaster programs and issues. Additionally, I am currently developing a financial management course for executive health administration graduate students

• Project Coordinator, First Responder Applied Research Initiative (FIRARI)

  • 2006 - Sep 2009

  •Coordinate multidisciplinary biometrics project comprised of faculty from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. •Projects involve development of 1) a competition pilot intervention for firefighters, 2) a firefighter “smart vest” black box system to measure physiological and environmental parameters while engaged in an emergency response event so as to aid debriefing or after action"hot washes" following a response event, and 3) an updated oxygen monitoring system for improved time determination of SCBA use left for a scene response. Show less

• Instructor, Community Preparedness and Disaster Management, School of Public Health

  • Sep 2007 - Jun 2009

  •Teach students awareness and ability to design a cost benefit analysis•Instruct students in the application of cost benefit analysis to disaster management •Restructured Cost/Benefit Analysis Module at program director’s request

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • May 2008 - May 2009

  • Performed as Principal Investigator- "Get Firefighters Moving" Competition Behavioral Intervention Study in which I developed and implemented an occupational health program intervention to improve physical fitness, decrease adverse cardiac and injury outcomes, and improve health care utilization and operational readiness in firefighters• Developing and conducting research on occupational injury and violence prevention, with emphasis on stress, PTSD, and substance abuse as it applies to firefighter health and safety; Also examining youth workforce safety, workplace stress, child maltreatment, and domestic violence outcomes • Served as Investigator on the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation Parents and Working Teens Labor Safety Study, examining occupational health and safety practices of working teens • Create large research proposals, including co-writing an $841,000 adolescent worker safety project and $979,000 FEMA project on firefighter health and safety• Conducted analysis of original and secondary data sets using the quantitative software packages SAS and STATA, and qualitative software Atlas.ti Show less

• Teaching Assistant, Community Preparedness and Disaster Management

  • 2003 - 2009

  •Facilitate four course certificate program consisting of six modules each; includes community and public health security, natural and man-made disasters, and emergency management systems. Also includes extensive instruction on emergency planning and implementation, and analytic methods. •Work with professors to provide full range online instruction, including live sessions•Assist all cohorts of students with planning, management, and logistical issues throughout their entire program, including the Certified Emergency Manager training Show less



UNC Chapel Hill

• Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor

  • 2005 - 2009