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Judith-Jolie Mairs-Levy
Judith-Jolie Mairs-Levy
is an an accomplished professional with expertise in a mélange of disciplines, and wears many hats: She is a Cross-Cultural Epidemiologist, Integrative Public Health Scientist and Wellness Practitioner and Research Analyst, Health Sciences Expert, Medical Anthropologist and Technologist, Certified National Crisis Counsellor, Medical Writer, Doctoral Chair & Faculty, as well as a Cybersecurity and Health and Telehealth Educator. As such, she has developed and facilitated courses on related topics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Mairs has published articles in several medical and public health related journals, and also serves as reviewer and editor for several medical and business management journals. She is incredibly involved in her community and carves time out from her busy schedule for volunteering to improve her community. She is committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI&B), and is an executive board member for several organizational committees. Recently, Dr. Mairs was also appointed Commissioner by the Mayor, and now serves on the Montgomery County’ Senior Citizens Council Commission. She also serves on the Montgomery County’ City of Rockville’s Community Caregiver Grant Program Application Review Panel. Such diverse combination of skills set and experience, affords her a unique and multi-faceted understanding of the management and daily operations of traditional health care as well as tele-health, hospital systems and related budget and finance, community grassroots programs geared towards prevention, and improvement in health and living conditions, successful and sustainable construction, LEED + Lean health infrastructure, health insurance system and operations, the need for cultural competency, sensitivity and diversity in health care and other settings, health care reform, and comparative healthcare systems. At St. Christopher's Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, she collaborated with Dr. Judith McColgan (M.D.) on the development of a critical curriculum for medical pediatric residents, geared to improving their knowledge, attitudes and how to detect, suspect, and report cases of child abuse, as they deliver care. She was integral to several successful grant proposals for implementation of community child-abuse outreach, and others for health and wellness programs. Dr. Mairs was a critical member of the National Dissemination Task Force on Best Practices for individuals living with HIV/AIDs; a multi-sited, HRSA-funded project with the Einstein School of Medicine and one of the Nation’s ‘Special Projects of National Significance’ (SPNS). She is currently involved with a similar initiative with the City of Philadelphia, Department of Public Health. She was also instrumental in the implementation of the first mobile Syringe Exchange Program in New Jersey at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ); related logistical development of brochures for the Camden Syringe Access Program Blood Borne Pathogens Exposure Control Plan Template; and in 2007, she collaborated with The Department of Human Services (Division of Addiction Services) to develop the New Jersey Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment. Dr. Mairs is a recognized expert in a plethora of disciplines and fields of study and practice that explore topics including but not limited to HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s, Autism, built environments and food security, the challenges of the marginalized and underserved, disease prevention and health literacy; access to care; community-based research; and social determinants of health. Her research interests are positioned within a framework of health promotion and disease prevention, wholistic care, health equity and cultural competency, education and employment opportunities for the poor, social justice, and global and population health. She was recently in Nairobi, Kenya where she was invited by a sustainability company that will be providing electricity, better sanitation, clean and safer drinking water, sustainable Agri-farming and employment opportunities, and not in the least, telemedicine/telehealth, to remote villages such as Kisumu, (dubbed the “Forgotten Mile”), where Dr. Mairs presented on telehealth at the company’s opening event on March 1, 2023. Dr. Mairs is a graduate of the Universities of Toronto and York in Toronto, Canada, and Drexel, Benedictine, and A.T. Still School of Osteopathic Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences in the USA. Her professional qualifications include a Doctorate in Public Health Education and Research, a MPH with concentrations in Epidemiology and Health Promotion, and Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation, a combined double major honors degree in Medical Anthropology and Health Sciences, and a B.Sc. in Abnormal Psychology. Dr. Mairs is of Canadian citizenship, and currently resides in the state of Maryland, within the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
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