Vickie Miene, MS, MA, LMHC
Executive Director
- vickie-miene@uiowa.edu
- N571-B CPHB
- Phone: (319) 384-1511
Vickie Miene is the Executive Director of the Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy at the University of Iowa College of Public Health. The institute brings together researchers, public health practitioners, community leaders and policy makers to expand the impact of public health research and improve the health of populations.
Director Miene is trained as a mental health therapist and earned a Master of Health Care Delivery Science degree from Dartmouth College. Her education and her 30 years of work experience have enabled her to develop a unique skill set. Through her psychology and mental health background, Ms. Miene has gained experience with group engagement strategies, adult learning concepts and interpersonal learning techniques which create successful training experiences. In addition, her MS degree helped her further develop expertise in organizational effectiveness, quality improvement methods, evaluation and strategies to build meaningful collaborations. Moreover, she is skilled at teaching others how to build shared agendas and create collaborative partnerships among organizations. Ms. Miene leads many projects with Iowa HHS including the Public Health Workforce grant, a multifaceted contract which includes building and delivering trainings for the current public health workforce in the areas of heath equity and communicating and visualizing public health data. Ms Miene leads the Iowa Child Lead poisoning Prevention Program and the Infectious Disease Tabletop training program. Ms. Miene leads program evaluation efforts on several statewide projects including the Iowa rural Health Vitality Program and others. In addition, she is the Administrative Services Director for the Iowa Cancer Network and the National Director of Curriculum Development and Evaluation for the Child Obesity prevention program, Healthy LifeStars