Dr. Jamie Hart, Intercultural Health Practice Area Lead at HSR, is recognized for planning, designing, and facilitating high-level meetings to identify barriers and develop concrete steps to achieve systems change. Dr. Hart currently serves as Project Director for the Homeless Policy Academies Initiative and offers training and technical assistance for a systems change project jointly funded by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development that brings together State teams of policymakers and practitioners to integrate their various systems to improve access to mainstream services for persons who are homeless.
While at HSR, Dr. Hart has facilitated numerous expert panel and workgroup meetings on topics including cultural competency in service delivery to people who are homeless and have mental illnesses or co-occurring disorders, transforming care for trauma survivors in the public mental health system, and discharge planning for criminal justice, behavioral health, primary care, and foster care systems. She also served as Deputy Project Director and Lead Trainer for a collaborative project funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Health Resources and Services Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Through this project, Substance Abuse and Infectious Disease: Cross-Training for Collaborative Systems of Prevention, Treatment, and Care, she provided training and technical assistance to enhance the knowledge and skills of providers as well as to foster the integration of services and build capacity at the local level. Dr. Hart also has served as the Director for several Office of Population Affairs assessment projects on the integration of HIV prevention in family planning clinics and the use of couples-based services to address reproductive health care issues.
Prior to coming to HSR, Dr. Hart worked as in instructional consultant at the University of Michigan, where she conducted classroom observations and consultations with individual faculty members, conducted training sessions and orientation sessions for faculty and teaching assistants, and designed and coordinated curriculum revision projects in various University departments. She holds a master's in health behavior and health education, along with a master's and doctorate in United States history, with a specialization in African-American history, all from University of Michigan. Her dissertation research focused on reproductive health and access to health care for African-American women.
