Kathleen Wojciehowski

Kathleen Wojciehowski is the director of the Missouri Institute for Community Health.  Prior to coming to this position in 2006, she was director of the Center for Local Public Health Services/Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.  Kathleen's career in public health was spent at MDHSS where she served as general counsel and as the quality management consultant for the department and local agencies.  Prior to her tenure at the department, she managed the Medicaid Litigation and Heartings Unit for the Missouri Department of Social Services.  Her first career as a librarian was her introduction to public service, and it was the beginning of her life-long service committment.

Janet Canavese

Janet has worked in public health for 30 years, both at the state and local level.  Her primary interests are helping to establish best practices in public health services, community collaboration, and coalition development and maintenance.  She’s worked in local public health centers in the United States and Australia.  For the last eight years, Janet has served as a public health consultant and is currently the Co-Director for the Missouri Institute for Community Health.  As such, she manages the Missouri Voluntary Local Public Health Accreditation Program.  Before her involvement with the Institute, Janet worked as a consultant with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and the Heartland Center for Workforce Competency, St. Louis University, School of Public Health. 

Beverly Tremain

Dr. Beverly Tremain established Public Health Consulting, LLC with the goal of assisting agencies in Missouri and nationwide in improving the public health system. She was educated at Texas A&M and Texas Woman's University. Her professional experiences include 15 years of teaching public health and evaluation at the undergraduate and graduate level. She has served as a technical consultant to various local, state, and national organizations in the areas of logical modeling, planning, evaluation including process, impact, and outcome studies, grant writing and management, and curriculum design. She is a fellow of the National Public Health Leadership Institute. Past and current clients include Missouri Institute for Community Health, RAND, University of South Carolina, Kansas City Health Department, and Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Currently, she is collaborating with the Missouri Institute for Community Health on a Voluntary Accreditation Program for local health departments, a funded project by the Centers for Disease Control and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Another project is the diffusion of technology across coalitions in Missouri and Tennessee designed to increase outcomes in substance abuse prevention. Her professional passion is helping organizations to slow down and understand the dynamics of their efforts and the processes by which they reflect and improve; A personal passion is raising her three young boys with her husband, Jack. They make their home in the Ozarks of Missouri.

Marty Galutia

 Marty has had over 20 years experience working in public health at the Kansas City Missouri Health Department. She has worked in a variety of functions for the Department as a health educator, Administrative Officer and now as an Assistant to the Director. In her various roles she has had an opportunity to work on department wide initiatives dealing with contracts, policies and procedures, strategic planning, score cared development and on a variety of quality improvement projects. She initiated and organized the accreditation process for the department. Most recently, Marty has been serving as the Grantee for the City’s HIV Services Program and has been the Program Manager for the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention program. Marty has been actively involved with the Missouri Institute for Community Health, serving on the Board and Accreditation Council for the past 5 years. Currently, Marty overseas all the quality improvement efforts for MICH and has developed an active social marketing program for the Accreditation Program.

Marty is a member of the American Society for Quality and has been involved with the Missouri Quality Award Program as a MQA Examiner. Marty has a Master of Science in Quality Sciences, a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and Sociology and has completed the Missouri Public Health Leadership Program.