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Terrell W. Zollinger, Dr.P.H., M.S.P.H.
Dr. Zollinger serves as the Director of Evaluation for the Indiana Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) project and Co-chaired the Committee on Research and Evaluation for the National AHEC Organization. He directed the evaluation for the Indianapolis Healthy Babies Campaign (funded by Marion County Health Department), the Tobacco Free Youth Initiative for Marion County (funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), the Indiana Prenatal Substance Use Prevention Program, the Indiana Children's Special Health Care Services Program, and the “Tobacco, It’s Gonna Cost You” media campaign (all funded by the Indiana State Department of Health). He was the director of comprehensive community health assessment projects for Marion, Hamilton, Johnson, Morgan and Hendricks Counties. He also conducted a state-wide needs assessment for Alcohol, Tobacco and Drug Using Pregnant Women (funded by the Indiana State Department of Health). Dr. Zollinger serves as consultant to the Indiana Minority Health Coalition's Racial and Ethnic Minority Epidemiological Center and was the technical advisor for a comprehensive obesity assessment of Marion County residents (funded by a grant from the Fairbanks Foundation to the Marion County Health Department). He has directed the evaluation of Learning Well school-based clinics since they were organized in 2000. Dr. Zollinger led the research team that developed the American Fitness IndexTM for the American College of Sports Medicine and is an invited member, American College of Sports Medicine American Fitness Index Expert Panel: Building National Health Promotion Guidelines for Communities. He also directed a needs assessment of HIV/AIDS affected individuals in central Indiana. Dr. Zollinger also serves as a research consultant to hospitals, health departments, managed care organizations and other health related organizations. Dr. Zollinger is a past president and former member of the board of directors for the Indiana Public Health Association. He is a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the American College of Epidemiology and the American Public Health Association. Dr. Zollinger is also a Fellow of the National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education. Dr. Zollinger has authored or co-authored over 60 publications in nationally recognized journals, over 200 technical reports, and over 125 conference presentations. He has also served as the principal or co-investigator of 75 funded grants and contracts.. |
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Terrell
W. Zollinger is Professor, IU School of Medicine, Department of
Public Health; Director of the Epidemiology Division; Director of
the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology; Associate Director, Bowen
Research Center; Director Indiana Center for Health Workforce
Studies, and adjuct professor of Family Medicine. Dr. Zollinger earned an M.S.P.H. in Biostatistics in 1976
and a Dr.P.H. in Epidemiology from Loma Linda University in 1980. He
was appointed to the American College of Epidemiology as a
credentialed member in 1983. His fields of specialization include
health professions workforce studies, health services research,
maternal and child health research, health disparities, tobacco use,
obesity and other risk factor research, and program evaluation.