Immediate Past-President
Ella Greene-Moton has an extensive background in public health advocacy, public health policy, community-based participatory research and programming, spanning the past 40+ years in the City of Flint and surrounding areas. In addition, specific efforts in public health ethics have focused on providing an awareness at the community level, developing and elevating the community voice and advocating for community inclusiveness at the state and national Levels. Her areas of expertise include facilitating community/academic/practice partnership building and sustainability; developing, managing and evaluating community-based projects; and training programs for graduate students, community members, as well as middle and high school students partnering with community-based organizations, schools and public health agencies.
Ella joined the Flint Odyssey House, Inc. Health Awareness Center in 1995 and served as its assistant director from 1998-2005. She served from 2006-2019 as a community education coordinator and "Bridge" at the Center for Public Health and Community Genomics at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She currently serves as the Community Based Organization Partners Community Ethics Review Board administrator and the executive consultant and co-chair of the Flint/Genesee Partnership, Health in Our Hands project. She also serves as an independent community-academic consultant working with other academic institutions nationally that are engaged in community based participatory research with their local communities.
On the state, regional and national levels, Ella is a member of the Michigan Public Health Association Board of Directors and serves as the Michigan Affiliate Representative to the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association. She represents Michigan on the Great Lakes Public Health Coalition and serves as the Regional Representative for Region V on the Council on Affiliates. In addition, and along with five of her MIPHA colleagues, Ella serves as a Cohort 10 and 11 Fellow of the Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health Michigan Health Equity Team.