Excellence and Experience
About
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 Co-Founder team of Ranelle and Diana draws on a combined 60+ 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.
Additionally, Parasol prides itself on thoughtfully curated project teams of Subject Matter Experts (SME's) with decades of federal, state, and local experiences.
Public health touches all communities, workplaces, and families. At Parasol Health Consulting, we bring an umbrella of experts and services to ensure your organization is covered for today and also for the future.
Ranelle
Co-Founder
Dr. Ranelle Brew has a combined 28 years of higher education, leadership, management, online teaching, research, training, and public health practice.
Meet Our Subject Matter Experts
Blake Tyler McGee
PhD, RN, MPH
Dr. McGee brings over two decades of national and international experience with clinical research, training, evaluation, education, and direct public health service.
Anthony (Tony) Fiore
MD, MPH, FIDSA
Tony Fiore is an Infectious Diseases physician and medical epidemiologist who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 26 years.
Loren N. Collier
RNC, BSN, MPH, IBCLC
Loren Collier 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.
Hammad Ali
PhD, MPH, MBBS
Dr. Ali 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 Chavez
DVM
Dr. Chavez brings decades of specialized federal select agent and environmental field and laboratory inspection experience to technical training and response planning, including large animal veterinary expertise.
LaBrina Jones
DM, MPH
Dr. Jones has served as a government official in preparedness and response operations, strategy, policy, and communications for over 20 years.
Melody Stevens
MPH
Melody Stevens is a seasoned public health official in national policy. She is also a Human Centered Design, facilitation, and partnerships strategy content expert.
Samia Saeb
MPH, CCRP
Samia Saeb is a public health professional with a passion for women and children’s health and over a decade of experience in patient-centered outcomes research, community-based participatory research, dissemination and implementation science, and healthcare quality improvement.
Emily Cheng
MPH
Emily Cheng is a bilingual evaluator with international experience, bringing cross-cutting knowledge to enhance program effectiveness, data use, and strategic decision-making, driven by a passion for advancing women’s and children’s health and preventing violence.
Melissa Jennings
MPA
Melissa Jennings 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 Goff
MPH
Robert Goff has 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 Fluegeman
MPH
Steph Fluegeman 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.
Katie Jourdan
MPH, CHES
Katie Jourdan is a health promotion leader with extensive experience in youth development, strategic planning, and communications. She has worked across tribal health, local public health, and higher education, leading initiatives in needs assessment, program design, implementation, and evaluation to advance community well-being.
Chelsea Ludington
MPH, CIC
Chelsea Ludington is a CIC-certified healthcare quality improvement leader with over a decade of experience across healthcare, public health, and academia, bringing a broad, systems-level perspective to improving clinical outcomes. She pairs expertise in service line strategy and infection prevention with a collaborative, data-driven approach to align teams and drive sustainable improvement.
Jean Breny
PhD, MPH
Dr. Breny, is a nationally recognized expert in Photovoice methodology and a Professor of Public Health at Southern Connecticut State University, with over 25 years of experience using participatory, visual research to advance health equity. She is co-author of Photovoice for Social Justice: Visual Representation in Action and has led numerous community-based Photovoice projects exploring topics from COVID-19 racial disparities to safer sex practices and body image. As a former President of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), Dr. Breny combines deep methodological expertise with a proven ability to translate research into actionable strategies for community and organizational change.
Karen Carera
PhD
Polly Hager
MSN, RN
Polly Hager is a nationally awarded and published cancer control and prevention expert having worked at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and Michigan Public Health Institute for nearly three decades. Polly's nursing credentials have afforded her state level, senior consulting roles.
Anjali Borad
MPH
Anjali Borad specializes in quality improvement, program implementation, performance measurement, and health equity. She is multi-lingual and brings experience across community-based healthcare, behavioral health, disability services, pediatric care, and rural health. Anjali brings a practical, implementation-focused perspective to improving access, quality, compliance, and outcomes for complex and underserved populations.
Maureen Klein,
MPH Candidate at Columbia University
Maureen Klein is a global health practitioner with field and research experience across sub-Saharan Africa, spanning the Peace Corps, USAID, the Population Council and Acumen. Her work focuses on closing the gap between health policy and on-the-ground delivery. She brings an implementation-grounded perspective to questions of strategy and access.
Dr. Ranelle Brew
EdD, MS, Co-founder
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
Co-founder
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.