Lisa Macon Harrison, MPH

Director, Southeast Public Health Leadership Institute
Deputy Director, NC Public Health Incubator Collaboratives
Research Associate, Center for Public Health Preparedness


NC Institute for Public Health
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Campus Box 8165
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
Phone: 919-843-5559
Fax: 919-843-5563
lisa_harrison@unc.edu

Lisa Macon Harrison has worked in research and practice for ten years at UNC managing projects in Public Health Preparedness, Workforce Development and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention through the Departments of Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Medicine and the North Carolina Institute for Public Health. Ms. Harrison's areas of expertise and leadership include:

• Assessing the competency of the public health workforce in core public health skills and emergency preparedness,
• Facilitating public health training and education in: Preparedness, Public Health Core Competencies, Epidemiology, Surveillance, Outbreak Investigation, and additional topics to ensure the workforce can respond to emerging health threats,
• Developing, disseminating, and evaluating training products according to assessed and specified need
• Conducting distance learning research and lifelong learning program development

Ms. Harrison received a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from UNC School of Public Health with a double major in Public Policy Analysis. She is currently completing her Masters in Public Health through the Public Health Leadership Program at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.