CONSULTANTS
Dr. Michele Devlin is Professor of Public Health at the University of Northern Iowa, where she is the recipient of the Richard Remington Award, the Governor's Award, the Iowa Civil Rights Award, and other local, state, and national honors for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service in the health and human rights field. Dr. Devlin is Co-Director of Cultural Connections, a non-profit academic consulting agency that provides assistance to organizations around the country on cultural competency issues. She is also Director of the Iowa Center on Health Disparities, a model organization funded by the National Institutes of Health to improve health equity for underserved populations. Dr. Devlin completed her master's and doctorate degrees in international public health at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Devlin’s primary areas of specialty include refugee, minority, and immigrant care, as well as cultural competency and health communication with underserved populations. She has published multiple scientific reports and books, including Health Matters: A Pocket Guide for Working with Diverse Cultures and Underserved Populations. In addition to her academic expertise, Dr. Devlin has more than 25 years of field experience working with public health agencies, non-profits, corporations, and government organizations, conducting programs both domestically and internationally with refugees, women, children, minorities, the elderly, and other at-risk individuals. Dr. Devlin is also the founder and advisor of the award-winning "Global Health Corps," a model service-learning program that has trained more than 500 students in conducting culturally appropriate public health programs with over 40,000 diverse and underserved clients in the United States and abroad. Dr. Devlin has extensive travel experience, and has worked, visited, or studied in 40 nations around the world.
Dr. Mark A. Grey is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa. He is also Co-Director of Cultural Connections, a non-profit academic consulting agency that helps agencies address ethnic diversity issues among staff and clients. Dr. Grey is Director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration, an award-winning program that provides consultation, training, and publications to Iowa communities, churches, organizations, and employers as they deal with the unique challenges and opportunities associated with influxes of immigrant and refugee newcomers. Dr. Grey received his Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He has published extensively in academic journals on immigration in the Midwest, including recent articles in Human Organization and Religion and Education, and for professional audiences as co-author of the book Health Matters: A Pocket Guide for Working with Diverse Cultures and Underserved Populations by Intercultural Press. Dr. Grey has also authored numerous pocketguides for lay audiences, including Welcoming New Iowans: A Guide for Citizens and Communities; Welcoming New Iowans: A Guide for Managers and Supervisors ; and Welcoming New Iowans: A Guide for Christians and Churches. He recently published A Health Provider's Pocket Guide to Working with Immigrant, Refugee and Minority Populations in Iowa; several pocket guides on providing health services to diverse seniors; and Orthodox Jewish Patients in Hospital Settings : A Health Provider's Pocket Guide. Dr. Grey has won numerous awards for his activities, including the Iowa Friends of Civil Rights Award, the University of Northern Iowa Distinguished Service Award, the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, and the Richard Remington Award for Outstanding Public Health Service to Iowa.