Parasol Health Consulting (PHC) was founded on a mission to provide curriculum design, strategy, and training programs to meet current and future demands of the health care industry.
The (PHC) team draws on a combined 50+ years of experience in areas of health education, promotion, wellness, workforce development, and strategy. We excel at designing trainings and programs to fit an evolving workforce.
Public health touches all communities, workplaces, and families. At Parasol Health Consulting, we bring an umbrella of services to ensure your organization is covered for today, and also for the future.
1. An Independent Player
2. Critical Thinking
3. Pro communication skills
4. Strong leadership skills
5. Multi-tasking and punctual
6. Resourcefulness
Dr. Ranelle Brew has a combined 23+ years of higher education, management, online teaching, research, and public health practice experience.
Diana Yassanye began practicing public health 28 years ago. She thrives when providing organizational leadership and partnership coordination.
Dr. McGee brings over two decades of national and international experience with clinical research, training, evaluation, education, and direct public health service.
Tony is an Infectious Diseases physician and medical epidemiologist who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 26 years.
Loren is a highly experienced healthcare, epidemiology professional, and Army Officer veteran with a proven track record of success in leadership, scientific rigor and applied public health practice.
John Donovan has been working as a public health practitioner for almost 15 years and for the last 13 years has led and provided support around all things connected to communications while at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Hammad is a passionate public health leader with 16 years of experience spanning 15 countries. His extensive achievements encompass leading and overseeing the implementation of diverse research and non‐research projects.
Greg brings decades of federal select agent and environmental inspection experience to technical training and response planning, including large animal veterinary expertise.
Dr. Jones has served as a government official in preparedness and response operations, strategy, and policy for over 20 years.
A seasoned public health official in national policy, Ms. Stevens is also a Human Centered Design, Facilitation, and Partnerships Strategy expert.
Melissa is a bilingual performance and evaluation consultant certified by INIFAC as a Virtual Facilitator and is SCRUM Master Certified. She holds formal post-graduate training in nonprofit management, performance measurement, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, and human-centered design.
Robert’s 20 years of dedicated service in public health emergency preparedness have culminated in a proven track record as a respected leader, presenter, and consultant. His innovative exercise designs have significantly improved the effectiveness and realism of emergency response planning.
Steph is known for her expertise in transforming complex data into compelling visual narratives. She is passionate about teaching others how to use data visualizations to showcase their data and inspire change, with over 15 years in public health evaluation, trainings, and data design and storytelling.
Jennifer is a global epidemiologist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer with more than 14 years of international experience in maternal and child HIV prevention, child mortality surveillance, and applied data analysis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Ranelle Brew has a combined 25+ years of higher education, management, online teaching, research, training, and public health practice experience. Dr. Brew’s passion is the design, implementation, and evaluation of projects in Public Health, with specific training in health education, promotion, and prevention. She has worked in public health positions in federally funded research, clinical care, and health and wellness. Most recently she’s led the design of a startup Master of Public Health program, earned tenure and full Professor, Department Chair, and Program Director status in higher education.
She has designed full degrees in health professions and public health program curricula, certificates, trainings, workshops, and badges. She has facilitated and trained faculty in hybrid, weekend executive, and online courses. She is the author of instructor materials for F.A. Davis Publishing for Medical Terminology, Simplified, and a published children’s book entitled Healthy Days.
Melding academics and research, her interests include diversity pipeline programs in health professions, breastfeeding, disability and accessibility, after-school wellness programming, and global health. She has directed an annual summer health professions workforce development project since 2009, which won a 2018 Michigan Hometown Health Hero Award for its pipeline and diversity impact in the community as well as the 2020 National Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), Clarence E. Pearson Award. She has been instrumental in creating 100’s of community-based partnerships, including Lowell Community Wellness, where she co-led 5+ years of after-school wellness camps for elementary and middle school students and adults in the Lowell Public School system winning a 2021 Michigan Hometown Health Hero Award.
Dr. Brew is passionate about global health and has developed and led annual global and domestically focused-public health service-learning trips since 2008. She’s traveled to and has partnerships in Nairobi, Kenya, Ghana, West Africa, Beijing, China, Tacloban City, Philippines, Manenberg, South Africa, Athens/Ikaria, Greece, Nicoya Coast of Costa Rica, and Sardinia, Italy as examples. Her current global research focuses on the five Blue Zones locations, studying centenarians. In 2023, she was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Specialist accolade for her extensive global research.
Ranelle has presented, authored, and co-authored over 100 papers, posters, and presentations on public health topics. She has facilitated workshops, been a speaker and keynote speaker, mentors graduate and doctoral level students, and leads and chairs numerous public health boards and workgroups.
Dr. Brew serves in the public health community extensively. She has served as a President of the Michigan Public Health Association (MPHA) from 2013-2015, President of the Great Lakes Chapter of the Society of Public Health Education (GLC-SOPHE) in 2019, and is an active member 20+ year member of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and social co-chair for the Public Health Education Health Promotion section, and a national member of the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE), Advisory Board member and Chair of the Kent County Early Health Careers programs, National Kidney Foundation Board of Directors, and the Grand Rapids Junior League.
Dr. Brew’s Doctoral and double Master’s degrees are from Columbia University, Teachers College in Education, and Health Sciences respectively. Her doctoral research included Adolescent Asthma Health Education in New York City public schools through collaboration between New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University.
Diana Yassanye began practicing public health 27 years ago. She thrives when providing organizational leadership and partnership coordination. She is experienced in formulating scalable partner strategies and directly engaging partners in public health, academia, and healthcare. She is a trainer, educator, partnership-builder, and strategist. During her federal career, she also became one of the few experts in the vital niche of public-private partnership conflicts of interest and ethics.
Her activities at CDC included broad-reaching innovation to leverage other sectors and disciplines for public health. She has been involved in multiple national and international public health emergency responses including H1N1, Hurricane Sandy, Zika, Ebola, Operation Allies Welcome Afghan evacuation, and COVID-19. Her last federal response was helping build and eventually leading the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, including 21 pharmacy groups and 41,000 pharmacies providing COVID vaccine in their communities, reaching 90% of the population within 5 miles of their homes.
She lead efforts to apply technology and social tech. She was the lead for the HHSignite-funded microtasking pilot called CDCology, linking university students to CDC projects, which secured $20k for the demonstration activity. She and a small team created the first sanctioned LinkedIn group and social media policy municipalities, and 20 full and part-time health departments/districts. She has been involved in preparedness projects ranging from alternative countermeasure dispensing models to climate change and public health.
Her first chapter was a decade working on HIV prevention (Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR; Camp Adventure, Izmir, Turkey; Free AIDS Counseling, Treatment, and Support (FACTS), Paris, France; AIDS Education and Training Centers, Newark, NJ) and STEM/Health curriculum development nationally and internationally at grassroots organizations and NGOs (Girls Inc., NY, NY; Curiouser & Curiouser: Scientific Events for Youth, NY, NY).
Diana has a B.A. in Childhood Education from Cal State Northridge and an M.S. in Health Education from Columbia University Teachers College. When she is not building a stronger health ecosystem, she is at the softball field, cheering on her teenage daughter, reading science fiction, cooking Moroccan and middle eastern specialties, listening to podcasts while tending the native pollinators in her garden, or on bike rides with her husband.
Versatile professional with extensive leadership experience and training in biomedical informatics and data management, combined with solid history of developing and delivering advanced technical solutions for complex healthcare spaces. Proven track record to grow the capabilities of the team and leading systems implementation healthcare information technology projects. Strong ability to manage and analyze data, learn quickly, and adapt to rapidly changing environments. Solid presentation, verbal, and written communications skills and ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations. Problem solver with exceptional attention to detail and sound understanding of statistical methods used to enhance existing or planned analytical infrastructure.
Key Competencies include:
Project Management | Data Security & Analysis | Technical Solutions | Data and System Integration | Strategy Statistical Methods | HIPAA | Best Practices | End-User Experience | Consulting
Tony is an Infectious Diseases physician and medical epidemiologist who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 26 years. His roles included serving as Branch Chief for the Epidemiology Research and Innovations Branch from 2015-21 where he led a team of 40 scientists focused on healthcare associated infections and antibiotic resistance. He retired as a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service. He has worked with state and local health departments on outbreak investigations, disease surveillance system expansion, and staff training programs. Tony trained as an Infectious diseases clinician and served as a volunteer at the Atlanta VA Hospital’s Viral Hepatitis clinic from 1997-2018. He has a B.A from Johns Hopkins University, an M.D. from the University of Maryland, and an M.P.H. from Emory University. Medical training includes internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship from the University of Maryland, and a preventive medicine residency at CDC/Georgia Department of Public Health.
He is an experienced leader in mentoring and training public health professionals in a variety of settings including:
Loren N. Collier, RNC, BSN, MPH, IBCLC is a highly experienced healthcare, epidemiology professional, and Army Officer veteran with a proven track record of success in leadership, scientific rigor and applied public health practice.She is skilled in statistical software, data analysis, and public health communication. She excels when leading teams of epidemiologists in conducting research on public health issues such as maternal and child health, chronic disease prevention, and health equity.
Loren served as an Army Registered Nurse for six years, where she received numerous awards for her leadership and clinical excellence. She was regularly recognized as exemplary in inpatient and operative care and facilitated Joint Commission accreditation surveys.
Some of her achievements include:
Loren holds a Master of Public Health in Applied Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Loren has published several peer-reviewed articles and presented her research at national conferences.
John Donovan has been working as a public health practitioner for almost 15 years and for the last 13 years has led and provided support around all things connected to communications while at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This includes leading communications campaigns and working in tandem with partners internal and external to CDC, pivoting depending on the best available evidence.
He has experience gathering the best available evidence through research and evaluation on a variety of topics and adjusting as needed in a highly fluid public health environment. First in 2008 as a research assistant with Fox Chase Cancer Center, collecting data through in-depth interviews with family members of melanoma victims and identifying potential avenues of cancer prevention. And at CDC, leading Vaccine Confidence and Demand focus groups with vaccination partners, assessing their current strategies connected to vaccine confidence and demand and pivoting as needed based on contextual factors, disease prevalence, vaccination rates, and the overall best available evidence. He started at CDC as an Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) fellow focused on research and evaluation of suicide prevention programs across a variety of states, evaluating what worked and what didn’t in their efforts connected to suicide prevention.
During his time in the federal government, John has also supported CDC by developing and nurturing a variety of partnerships and creating and implementing communications and overall communications strategy based on information needs/gaps. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were numerous challenges in getting information on COVID-19 vaccines (and the vaccines themselves) to Americans. In this vein, John led the CDC “Atlanta Arts Pilot”, a public-private partnership in 2021 between CDC, Georgia Department of Public Health, CORE Georgia, and local arts organizations Dashboard and Living Walls to reach novel groups of Georgians to get them vaccinated against COVID-19. These efforts included the development and placement of physical banners and projections at 9 local businesses and an Atlanta United game that illustrated the value of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 and increasing access to these vaccines by setting up vaccination clinics at many of these sites.
John has a B.S. in biology from Ursinus College and an M.P.H. from Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health.Included as a subject matter expert for this project, John Donovan has built a career in health and federal communications and overall communication strategy evaluation. During his time at CDC, John has been responsible for crafting messaging for numerous audiences and topics ranging from violence prevention to radiation emergency preparedness to flu and COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Notably, John was senior health communication specialist on the CDC Public-Private Partnerships Team and led the development of the CDC seasonal flu communications campaign for healthcare providers and the public during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 flu seasons, which resulted in:
