Lakia Maxwell, MSCH

Lakia Maxwell, MSCH is the TRANSPORT Program Manager and Project Administrative Officer at the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center (BHDC), at Downstate Health Sciences University. She received a Master’s in Community Health at Hofstra University in 2016. Ms. Maxwell joined The Brooklyn Health Disparities Center in 2014 and served as Research Education Coordinator. In that capacity, Ms. Maxwell provides support for the Center’s Executive Team in submission of NIH and other grant proposals. She manages the financial expenditures and scholar recruitment processes of the TRANSPORT Endowment Program. She has developed and maintained web based and social media communications, brochures, pamphlets among many other products. Ms. Maxwell is engaged in program planning and designing, as well as the implementation of research activities. She is also the Center’s Internship coordinator for high school, undergraduates, graduate, and medical school students. Additionally, Ms. Maxwell is the CREST Program Coordinator to which she brings expertise in coordinating project activities, managing schedules, and ensuring project deliverables are completed on time and within budget. Furthermore, Ms. Maxwell provides Program Evaluation, Survey Design, Graphic Design, Logic Model Development, SMART Goal and Objective Development, as well as Budget and Timeline Development in her roles. She has also assisted with and has a passion for both Community Based Participatory Research and Community Engaged Research. Through her passion for community health, Ms. Maxwell also served as a professor at SUNY Empire State College where she taught “Introduction To Community and Public Health”. Here, she really enjoyed teaching the next generation of public health professionals.