Director of Community Health Interventions and Research
KELLY MCCABE
Professional Summary
| Kelly McCabe joined SUHI in 2020 and currently serves as Director of Community Health Interventions & Research, providing leadership for SUHI’s community health worker (CHW) interventions and research development, along with efforts to integrate and evaluate CHW interventions within Sinai Chicago. Kelly develops, designs, implements, and evaluates intervention research, focusing on health system integration and leads grant writing and management, developing research and funding plans, data analysis, and dissemination activities. She has over 20 years of experience in health equity work, public health grant management, and community-based research including designing, implementing, and evaluating research programs aimed at addressing health inequities in underserved communities.
Prior to joining SUHI, Kelly worked at the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she directed federally funded clinical research studies testing and implemented an HIV intervention for African American women and their teenage daughters. She served as Co-Investigator on a pilot research study to expand the intervention to a younger cohort and was a Sub-Investigator on a randomized control trial in South Africa. Most notably, her Peace Corps experience in Paraguay was formative and motivated her to pursue a career rooted in community health. |
Education
- M.S.P.H., Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2006
- B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology/Spanish language, Northwestern University, 1999
