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Program Office Staff
Terrell W. Zollinger, Dr.P.H.
 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.
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
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