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Miryam is a Public Health Analyst in the Office of Minority Health, Division of Policy and Data at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She serves as an advisor to the Director on health information technology issues (HIT), data issues, Latina(o) health, and on Healthy People 2010 and now 2020. Miryam staffs several HHS Committees such as the HHS Data Council and the Racial and Ethnic Data Work Group; and the National Center for Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) Subcommittee on Populations. Miryam provided technical assistance on the NCVHS publication "Eliminating Health Disparities: Strengthening Data on Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language in the United States". Miryam also serves on the HHS Interagency Work Group for the AHRQ annual Disparities Report. She has worked on the last three reports. Before coming to OMH, Miryam oversaw the management of the monthly Assistant Secretary for Health Chaired Healthy People 2010 Progress Reviews and from 1998-2001 was the Healthy People Consortium Coordinator. Miryam's first assignment at HHS was working on the Healthy People 2000 Progress Review on Hispanic Americans From December 2002 to May 2003, Miryam was on detail to AHRQ and served as the Public Health Analyst on Minority Health in the Office of Priority Populations and in the Summer of 2000, worked for the CDC, Global AIDS in Mozambique as a Public Health Analyst. Miryam has been working at HHS for more than eleven years. Miryam began her career at HHS in 1996, with the support of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. She was named the Edward Roybal Public Health Fellow and her placement was the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) at HHS. Next Thursday, January 10, 2008 Miryam and several HHS colleagues will be receiving the HHS Outstanding Team Performance Award for their work on the publication Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review. She was recently invited to participate in the JHSPH 2007 Strategic Plan. Prior to moving to DC, Miryam was a graduate student in Social Work at Boston University. Miryam's field placement was with the Coalition on Addiction Pregnancy and Parenting. She had the opportunity to work with the first Latina bilingual/bicultural substance abuse residential treatment facility in Massachusetts. Miryam is a 1993 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State, she was the recipient of the Penn State Hispanic for Academic Progress Scholarship and the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund. She is currently serving her fifth year as a Mentor for the PSU College of Health and Human Development. Last year, Miryam was asked to serve as the Keynote speaker at the annual dinner of the program. Two years ago, she was also invited to lead a workshop for the new mentors, on tips for mentoring. Miryam is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has completed the Certificate in Health Disparities and Health Inequalities. While at Hopkins she was an elected officer for the Student Assembly, served on the Dean's Academic Ethics Committee, and was an active member of Nuestra America, the Latino student group. In the Fall of 2003, Miryam was accepted into the Hopkins University Graduate Division of Business and Management Leadership Development Program for minority managers and in April 2006, Ms. Granthon was selected as a National Hispanic Science Network Fellow on Drug Abuse sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes on Health. Ms. Granthon is a native of Callao, Peru; raised in Lancaster, PA and now living in Bethesda, Maryland. In July 2005, Ms. Granthon was appointed by Montgomery County Executive to the Commission on Health and in August 2006 she was appointed the Chair for the Access committee. Ms. Granthon is an Executive Officer, First Vice Chair of the American Public Health Association, Latino Caucus and just completed serving a three year appointed on the APHA Martha May Elliot Awards Committee. She's currently the President of the Board of a community clinic Proyecto Salud www.proyectosalud.org in Montgomery County and a Steering Committee Member of the Montgomery County Latino Health Initiative. She's also a past Board member of Mary's Center a Maternal and Child Care clinic in Washington DC and MANA, A National Latina Organization. |