Venice Haynes, PhD

meet Venice Haynes, PhD

Venice Haynes, PhD, MSPH is a social scientist with over 15 years of public health experience. She currently serves as the  Senior Director of Research and Community Engagement at United States of Care where she leads the people-centered research and listening approaches to drive state, federal, and private sector policy change. Her body of work is centered on elevating voices of populations marginalized by the health care system and addressing health inequities and health disparities using qualitative and community-based participatory approaches. She also has extensive experience in community capacity building, health communication, implementation science, and evaluation of public health programs, and brings these experiences to academia as an adjunct faculty instructor at Emory Rollins School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Tennessee State University, her Master of Science in Public Health from Meharry Medical College, and her PhD in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior from the University of South Carolina.