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Hartmann-Boyce Named 2024 Public Engagement Faculty Fellow

As a PEP fellow, she will write news articles and engage with the media and share her work with policymakers.

February 12, 2024 Research

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Jamie Hartmann-Boyce
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy, has been named a 2024 Public Engagement Faculty Fellow by the Public Engagement Project (PEP) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is among the eight UMass faculty members who will draw on their substantial research records to impact policy, the work of practitioners and public debates.

The PEP Fellows Program, of which this group constitutes the 10th cohort, facilitates connections between fellows and lawmakers in the U.S. Congress and Massachusetts State House, journalists, practitioners and others to share their research beyond the walls of academia. The faculty fellows will receive a stipend and technical training in communicating with non-academic audiences.

Hartmann-Boyce’s research involves bringing together and interpreting evidence so that patients, carers, healthcare providers and policy makers have the best available evidence in hand when making decisions. She works across a range of topics, including tobacco and nicotine, diabetes, COVID and healthcare access. As a PEP fellow, Hartmann-Boyce will write news articles and engage with the media and share her work with policymakers.

“Over the past decade, the expanding network of PEP Faculty Fellows has made significant impacts,” says Lisa M. Troy, director of the Public Engagement Project and associate professor in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences and the Commonwealth Honors College. “By training UMass faculty to translate their scholarship to an audience beyond academia, UMass faculty are having broader impacts locally, nationally, and internationally. PEP Fellows have been invited to governor task forces, onto the National Academy of Sciences committees, and for congressional testimony, as well as informing the general public through various media outlets. In this way, PEP Fellows are facilitating the mission of UMass Amherst as a land grant university, ‘to advance knowledge and improve the lives of the people of the Commonwealth, the nation and the world.’”

The Public Engagement Project is a faculty-driven initiative building on a collaboration of the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), the Center for Research on Families (CRF) and the Transportation Center (UMTC). The PEP Faculty Fellowship has been made possible by funding from the College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, College of Natural Sciences, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Office of the Provost and University Relations.

Read more about the 2024 Public Engagement Faculty Fellows.

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