RWJF Health Policy Research Scholar

Rumana is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Research Scholar, where she co-designs as the Principal Investigator (PI) with CHWs and Racial Justice Leaders using systems and design thinking, improvement science, and implementation science methodologies.

• Aim 2: National CHW Racial Equity Workshop at pre-American Public Health Association Conference
• Reviewer for Patient Centered Outcomes Research

pre-APHA CHW Summit, 2017, Hosted by IMPaCT, UPenn

RWJF HPRS Summer Institute

Activist Research on CHWs and Racial Equity

Co-PI: Abdul Hafeedh bin Abdullah

Co-design team includes national CHWs and CHW ally leaders:

• RWJF HPRS Mentor: Melvin Jackson
• CHW & People with Lived Experience Co-design team
• Estrus Tucker, Racial Justice Leader, RWJF, We in the World
• Mae-Gilene Begay, CHW, Director of Public Health, Navajo Nation
• Noelle Wiggins, CHW Ally, PI Common Indicators Team funded by CDC
• Angie Kuzma, CHW, OR CHW Association
• Sergio Matos, CHW, Founder of National CHW Association
• Maylynn Warne, National Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative, Pawnee Nation
• Teresa Campos-Dominguez, CHW, Multnomah County
• Eric Bruno, CHW, NY Presbyterian Hospital
• Dr. Dannie Ritchie, CHW Ally, Brown University, Community Initiatives of RI

Previous pre-APHA CHW Summit:
pre-APHA CHW Summit, 2017, Hosted by IMPaCT, UPenn

CHW Sustainable and Equitable Payment

• Recommended Sustainable Payment Methods for Community Health Workers that Align with PPACA SIM-CT community health research report [PDF] - Jennifer Grasso, Rumana Rabbani, Rongrong Wang, Ahsan Malik. Yale School of Public Health, Spring 2014.
• Implementation and Sustainment of the Community Health Worker Workforce: Evaluation of Metrics and Alternative Payment Models for Community and Clinical Services; APHA Scientific Session