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| Education and Training | |
| RN | Massachusetts General Hospital Scnool of Nursing |
| MPH | Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University |
| DNSc | School of Nursing, Columbia University |
| Research/Clinical Interests |
| public health, informatics public health workforce and infrastructure health information technology organizational management emergency response and preparedness information visualization |
| Selected Publications |
| Keeling, JW, Pryde, J, Merrill, JA. (April 2012, published ahead of print). The influence of management and environment on local health department organizational structure and adaptation: a longitudinal study using network analysis. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice |
| Gershon, RM, Magda, LA, Riley, HEM, Merrill, JA. 2011. Mass fatality preparedness in the death care sector. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 53(10):1179-86 |
| Merrill, JA, Keeling, JW, Wilson, RV, Chen, TV. 2011. Growth of a scientific community of practice: Public health services and systems research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 41(1): 100-104 |
| Merrill, J, Keeling, J, Carley, KM. 2010. A Comparative Analysis of Eleven Local Health Department Organizational Networks. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 16(6): 564-76. |
| Merrill, J, Meier, BM, Keeling, J, Jia, H, Gebbie, KM. 2009. Examination of the relationship between public health statute modernization and system performance Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 15(7):292-98 |
| Merrill, J, Keeling, J, Gebbie, KM. 2009. Toward standardized, comparable public health systems data: a taxonomic description of essential public health work. Health Services Research, 44 (5) Part II: 1818-41 |
| Merrill, J, Hripcsak, G. 2008. Case Report: Using social network analysis within a Department of Biomedical Informatics to induce a discussion of academic communities of practice Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 15(6):780-82 |
| Merrill, J, Bakken, S, Rockoff, ML, Gebbie, K, Carley, K. 2007. Description of a method to support public health information management: Organizational network analysis. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 40(4):422-28. |
| Aboela, S, Merrill, J, Carley, KM, Larson, E. 2007. Social network analysis to evaluate an interdisciplinary research center. Journal of Research Administration, 38(1): 61-75. |
| Honors & Awards | |
| 2011 | National Quality Forum Steering Committee on National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Population Health |
| 2010 | Institute on Systems Science and Health (ISSH) supported by National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 2006 | Public Health Scholar, Pfizer Medical and Academic Partnership (MAP) Program |
| 2006 | Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine |
| 2005 | Doctoral Consortium on Organizational Issues in Informatics Annual Symposium, American Medical Informatics Association |
| 2005 | Center for Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) Summer Institute, Institute for Software Research International, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2002 | Pre-Doctoral Training Award, National Institute of Nursing Research, Columbia University School of Nursing |
| 2000 | Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Alpha Zeta Chapter, Columbia University School of Nursing |
| Committees | |
| 2011 | Steering Committee, National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Population Health, National Quality Forum |
| 2011 | National Advisory Committee, Centers of Excellence in Public Health Workforce at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health and the University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| 2010 | Steering Committee, New York Public Health Practice- Based Research Network, Office of Public Health Practice, NY State Department of Health |
| 2009 | National Advisory Committee, Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2008 | Co-Chair Public Health Informatics Track, 2008 American Medical Informatics Association Spring Congress |
| Professional Memberships | |
| 2002 | American Medical Informatics Association, Public Health WG; People & Organizational Issues WG |
| 2001 | AcademyHealth, Public Health Systems Research Interest Group |
| 1999 | American Public Health Association, Public Health Nursing Section |
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