Carla Clasen, MPH, RN
Co-Director, Center for Healthy Communities
Program Director, Research and Evaluation
Telephone: (937) 775-1119
Email: carla.clasen@wright.edu

As well as serving as Co-Director, Ms. Clasen is Program Director for Research and Evaluation at the Center for Healthy Communities. In this capacity she develops and implements evaluation procedures for the Center's grant projects. She is also available, when requested, to serve in a consulting role to Center partners in planning and conducting evaluations. In addition, Ms. Clasen assists in the design and implementation of programs that support the Center’s health promotion, health education, advocacy, research, and scholarship activities.

Ms. Clasen is a registered nurse who obtained a Bachelor’s of Nursing Science from the University of Mississippi. She obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas in 1992.

She has been a member of the American Public Health Association since 1990.

Carla Clasen (standing) speaking at the
Center for Healthy Communities
Annual Meeting, June 2005

Recent Publications:

Meyer, C., Brun, C., Yung, B., Clasen, C., Cauley, K., & Mase, W. (2004).
Evaluation of social marketing efforts designed to increase enrollment in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, 12 (2), 87-104.

Clasen, C., Meyer, C., Brun, C., Mase, W., and Cauley, K. (2003). Development of the Competency Assessment Tool – Mental Health, an instrument to assess core competencies for mental health care workers. Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 27 (1), 10-17.

See the Professional Journal Articles page under Publications for more articles.

Selected Presentations:

Community Health Workers: Bringing Health Closer to Home, poster, 23rd National DHPE/CDC Conference on Health Education and Health Promotion, Minneapolis, MN, May 2005

Statistics 101, invited presentation, Health Sciences Research Conference, Mercer University, Macon, GA, March 2004

An Eight Year Experience in Teaching Medical Students in an Urban Public School Setting, presentation, 23rd Annual Conference, Generalists in Medical Education, Washington, DC, November 2003

Results of Establishing an Integrated Referral System for Health Uninsured, poster, Academy of Health Annual Research Meeting, Nashville, TN, June 2003