Melissa Pennise, MPH

Melissa Pennise, MPH

Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives

Melissa Pennise has a wide range of experience planning, executing and evaluating initiatives to improve community health for a variety of populations including the health care workforce, older adults, rural residents and people with disabilities.

As Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives at Common Ground Health, her current work supports the Regional Consortium on Health Care Workforce and Older Adults and Long Term Care.

Melissa has served as a board member of the Healthy Baby Network, and as an adjunct professor in the State University of New York – College at Brockport’s Department of Public Health and Health Education and St. John Fisher University’s MPH program. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Public Health Reports and Maternal and Child Health Journal.