Twenty-five years of public health experience in academia, a state department of health, not-for-profit companies, and a medical care setting. Extensive experience in preparing data for use by various audiences. Demonstrated ability to combine knowledge of disease etiology, health services and statistics. Track record of managing technical and multidisciplinary staff and projects; linking population based data to program use; teaching graduate students the applications of epidemiology to public health.

At the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, directs the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund grants to Johns Hopkins. Established an application and peer review process for selecting awardees; organized seminar and Longrifles sessions for cancer investigators throughout the medical institutions; summarized programmatic activity for internal use and the funder; and assures coordination with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on a number of practice projects. Contributed to courses as faculty and designed a one-day surveillance course for Summer Session (Health Policy and Management).

Environmental Health Sciences, public health practice, public health performance, surveillance, tracking, community health, community health assessment, applied epidemiology

Al Gore Hammer Award Recipient (2000)

Kanarek N, Bialek R, Shaw-Taylor Y, and Shah A. A new methodology for reporting the status of community health improvement: U.S.” Applied Research for Quality of Life 1(2), 2006.

Kanarek N, Stanley J, and Bialek R. Local Public Health Agency Performance and Community Health Status. 2006. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2006 November/December;12(6):522-527

Shaio SJ, Su SC, and Kanarek N. County-Level Basics of Living Affects Overall Mortality Rate in the United States – 2000. Applied Research in Quality of Life 2006. 1:97-106.

Kanarek N and Kanarek MS. “Smoking cessation in clinical trials: A health research ethic” (Submitted)

Kanarek NF and Bialek R. “County Readiness to meet Healthy People 2010 Objectives” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice May-June 2003; 9(3): 249-254.

Atchison C, Barry M, Kanarek N, and Gebbie C. “The Quest for an Accurate Accounting of Public Health Expenditures.” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 2000; 6(5): 93-102.

Kanarek N, Sockwell D, et.al. “Community Indicators of Health-Related Quality of Life—United States, 1993-1997.” MMWR 2000; 49(13): 280-284.

Surveillance Chapter. In: “MD Comprehensive Cancer Plan”. (Under review 2003) “Return on Investment of Nationwide Tracking,” Health-Track, released August 2001.

“Community Health Status Reports” for 3,082 U.S. counties (www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov). Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) Project. 2000 (Report designer, statistician, database QA/QI and editor). Al Gore Hammer Award Recipient (2000).

“Literature Summary for Development of State Cancer Control Advocacy Materials,” Public Health Foundation, 2000 (Author).

Template for state cancer control tool for policy makers, “Making a Difference in Cancer,” PHF, 2000 (Primary author).