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Ashanti Health Consultants Four Upperbrook Court, Parlin, NJ' 08$S9 1201) 721-3059 Ashanti Health Consultants is a firm providing consulting services to hospitals, public agencies, edticational institutions, HMOs, consumer and professional organizations. Services include: program development, conference presentations, research and evaluation, training/education and information, dissemination on health care issues/probllems of low- income and minority populations. Prior to the creation of Ashanti Health Consultants, Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, President, worked in the public health field as a consultant; administrator, evaluator, researcher,. and planner. She has been employed by Columbia University School of Public Health~ the University of Connecticut Medical School, Rutgers University School of Law,. the City of New York, Bureau of Maternity Services and Family Planning, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Oxfam America, the Crime and Justice Foundation, and the Agency for International Develbpment. Ms. Nsiah holds a M.P.H. from Yale University in Health Administration, a B.A. from Brandeis University in African and Afro-American Studies and Politics,, and is currently a doctorate candidate in Health Policy and Management with a concentration in research and evaluation at The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Ms. Nsiah has actively participated as a task force and board; member in many civic, professional, national and community organizations, and institutions. She has spoken nationwide on health issues relating to low-income and minority populations.

Ashanti Health Consultattts Four Upperbrook Court. Parlin, NJ 08859: 12011 721-3059 PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS PRESENT POSITION: Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson is President of Ashanti Health Consultants. In this capacity, she is responsible for consulting to hospitals, public agencies, HMOs, academia, consumer, and professional organizations on health care for low-income and minority populations. EXPERIENCE: Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson has actively participated in developing programs, conducting researchi evaluation, designing and implementing health education programs, and training/' workshops. She has also presented extensively at conferences, symposia, seminars and meetings. In addition, she has access to health education materials about and designed for low-income and minority populations. Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson has particular expertise in reproductive, maternal, and child health. EMPLOYMENT: Prior to forming her corporation she was: • Senior Research Associate at Columbia University Schooll of Public Health.. • Co-principal Investigator on a nationwide research project funded by the Ford Foundation to identify innovative health care program models for low-income and minority populations. • Member of a consulting team conducting research and policy analysis on reproductive hazards in the workplace, abortion, fetus as patient, the new reproductive technologies and prenatal screening and diagnosis. Her particular task was to analyze these issues as they relate to low-income and minority populations, as well as to develop policy recommendations. and critique legal proposals. This project was initiated out of Rutgers Law Schoolt and the Rutgers University Institute for Research on Women. • Director for Reproductive Health for the State of Massachusetts. • Consultant to the Crime and Justice Foundation in Boston to develop and implement a health education program geared toward incarcerated black women. • Associate in Resource Development for Oxfam, America, an international development agency. - Policy analysis consultant to the Agency for Internationall Development. • Consultant to Yale New Haven Hospital's Hill Health Center, acommuruty health center serving.a primarily black population. • Consultant to the University of Connecticut Medical School and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey on a

Ashanti Health Cansultants Page 2 EMPLOYMENT: (Cont.) • projeet' to increase access to medical genetic services to low- income, minority and immigrant, populations. Cbnsultant to New Jersey Public Policy Research Inst2tute to EDUCATION: • OFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: • write an article on Pediatric AIDS in the Minority Community. Ms. Nsiah Jefferson holds a bachelors degree in Afro-American and African Studies and Politics from Brandeis University. She received a Masters in Public Health with a concentration in, Health Administration from Yale University School of Medicine. She is currently doctorate candidate in Health Policy and Management with a concentration in research and evaluation at The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. In addition, she has taken numerous courses and attended seminars on health-law; ethnicity and health; reproductive health and fundraising. Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson has been affiliated with: Reproductive Hazards Working Group • Committee for Responsible Genetics • Trans Africa • The American Public Health Association • Task Force of the National Black Women's Health Project • Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Task Force on • cervical cancer Massachusetts State Legislature Breast Feeding Task Force • Coordinating Council of the Hayrnarket People's Fund • Served on the Board of Directors of: ARDS: The Philadelphia Black Women's Health Project The Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center North Inc. - A Philadelphia WIC Agency She is currently a Committee Member of the National Subcommittee on Low-Income Issues of the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, and on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of Middlesex County, New Jersey. Citations for Outstanding Service to the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus and was nominated Outstanding Young Woman of the Year in 1986. N C 1<17 PUBLICATIONS: Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson~ has published a number of articles on low- income and minority health issues. The articles have W ~ concentrated on policy,, legal, and program development. C?'