November 8, 2022: Capacity Building and Delivery Infrastructure Workgroup

Yoko Meusch, MA, is a Program Associate for the Center for Healthy Aging at National Council on Aging. Yoko provides technical assistance to U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL) grant-funded community-based organizations promoting and implementing evidence-based Falls Prevention and Chronic Disease Self-Management education programs. In addition, she is a program administrator for Aging Mastery Program®, an NCOA’s signature program for aging well. 

Yoko holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Studies from the University of Maryland Global Campus and a Master's Degree in Health Communication from Johns Hopkins University. 
She is originally from Japan and is bilingual. 

Sarah designed and launched the Center for Parkinson’s Disease and won the 2019 Degenerative Diseases Special Interest Group Service Award in recognition of her “tireless pursuit of improving the lives of individuals with [PD] who live on the East End of Long Island.” She oversees seven PD-specific wellness programs, all currently implemented remotely, with over 250 participants. She is a co-PI on the 2022-2025 ACL Falls Prevention Grant.

Kristi has over 10 years of experience coordinating health promotion programs, leading the efforts that earned the 2020 Safe States Injury Prevention Program of the Year Award. She chairs state and national hospital-based/trauma center injury prevention subcommittees. She served as a Regional Coordinator for previous ACL Falls Prevention grants before becoming a co-PI for the 2022-2025 cycle.