Karen E. Peters, DrPH

Dr. Peters holds joint appointments as an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health, Assistant Professor in the UIC Graduate College of UIC. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and is Director of Research and Evaluation in the National Center for Rural Health Professions, College of Medicine - Rockford. In addition, she holds a faculty affilitations with UIC's Institute for Health Research and Policy in the Illinois Prevention Research Center and in the Center for Research on Health and Aging where she is Co-Investigator. She possesses extensive experience in evidence based community health intervention development, implementation, evaluation and diffusion, most recently in the areas of cardiovascular disease, arthritis and oral health among minority and rural populations. Her area of expertise is tanslation of population-based health promotion and disease prevention interventions to practice.