OAA Title III-D Coordinator Convening: Tribal Elder Outreach Strategies with ACL Resource Centers

Kathleen Cameron, BSPharm, MPH, has more than 25 years of experience in the health care field as a pharmacist, researcher, and program director focusing on falls prevention, geriatric pharmacotherapy, mental health, long-term services and supports, and caregiving. Cameron is Senior Director of the NCOA Center for Healthy Aging, where she provides subject matter expertise on health care programmatic and policy related issues and oversees the Modernizing Senior Center Resource Center.

Britteny Howell is an associate professor in the Division of Population Health Sciences, director of the Healthy Aging Research Laboratory, coordinator of the Occupational Endorsement Certificate Program in Gerontology, and co-director of the National Resource Center for Alaska Native Elders at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is an anthropologist, a credentialed professional gerontologist, a certified dementia practitioner, and a registered yoga teacher who has lived in Alaska for nearly 15 years. Her research focuses on healthy lifestyle modifications to improve aging outcomes in the Circumpolar North.

Cole Ward is an outreach coordinator for the Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks.

Cole works with the National Resource Center for Native American Aging (NRCNAA) where he assists in completing the NRCNAA Needs Assessment Surveys. His responsibilities fall under acting as a liaison between CRH and various tribes. Cole also worked previously for the NRCNAA as a project coordinator. 

Originally from Grand Forks, Cole earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's degree in sociology from the University of North Dakota.