Bridging Possibilities & Solutions.
Connecting people and resources to affect positive change.
Mission: to provide quality consultative services to organizations seeking to enhance their capacity, programming, and services to promote health equity.
Expertise
- Community outreach and engagement
- Health advocacy
- Leadership development
- Policy development
- Health equity principles and practice
- Program development and implementation strategies
- Resources development
Services
- Organizational needs assessment
- Policy and program development
- Resources development
- Leadership training
- Board development and training
- Strategic planning
Selected peer-reviewed publications.
Throughout her career, Dr. Pullen-Smith was strategically positioned within local and state level public health systems to address the historic and significant disparities in access, treatment and health outcomes for Blacks and other racial/ethnic minorities. Documentation has been a key strategy to affect change.
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Engaging Faith-Based Communities: A Public Health Leadership Perspective
Carter-Edwards, L., Pullen-Smith, B., Whitt-Glover, M., Emanuel, C., Toms, F.D., & Wilson, C. In Lead the Way: Principles and Practices in Community and Civic Engagement (Revised 2nd Ed.), Cognella Academic Publishing, 287–317, 2022.
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Engaging Faith-Based Communities: A Public Health Leadership Perspective (1st Ed.)
Carter-Edwards, L., Pullen-Smith, B., Toms, F.D., Whitt-Glover, M., & Wilson, C. In Lead the Way, Cognella Academic Publishing, 263–281, 2014.
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Medical Care Costs for Diabetes Associated with Health Disparities Among Adults Enrolled in Medicaid in North Carolina
Buescher, P.A., Whitmire, J.T., & Pullen-Smith, B. State Center for Health Statistics, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, August 2009.
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Community Health Ambassadors: A Model for Engaging Community Leaders to Promote Better Health in North Carolina
Pullen-Smith, B., Carter-Edwards, L., & Leathers, K. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, November 2008 (Supplement), S73–S81.
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Public Health Initiatives to Prevent and Detect Chronic Kidney Disease in North Carolina
Pullen-Smith, B., & Plescia, M. North Carolina Medical Journal, May/June 2008, 69(3), 224–226.
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North Carolina's Response to the Challenge of Health Disparities
Pullen-Smith, B. North Carolina Medical Journal, November/December 2004, 65(6), 359–362.
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Clinical Management of Communication Disorders in Culturally Diverse Children
Contributing author.