Our Team & Supporters

• Be Well Communities team
          Ruth Rechis, Ph.D.
          Haley Gardiner, M.P.H., CHES®
          Mayra Aquino, M.S., R.D., L.D. 
          Lauren Harris McDonald, M.P.H., CHES® 
          Terrence Adams, M.S.
          Martha Vieco-Garcia, M.S.
          
• Institutional leadership
          Michael T. Walsh, Jr., M.H.A.
          Ernest Hawk, M.D., M.P.H.
          Mark Moreno
          Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D.

• Faculty experts
          Karen Basen-Engquist, Ph.D., M.P.H.
          Jeffrey Gershenwald, M.D.
          Lorna McNeill, Ph.D., M.P.H.

• Key internal collaborators 
          Cancer Prevention and Control Platform
          Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
          Development
          Government Relations 
          Institutional Affairs
          Legal Services
          Office of Health Policy             
          Office of the Chief Scientific Officer

Key external collaborators

• CATCH Global Foundation
• RTI International
  
• The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Health Communication

Steering Committee organizations

• Acres Home Chamber for Business & Economic Development
• Acres Homes Community Advocacy Group
• Acres Homes Health Action Team
• Aldine ISD
• American Cancer Society
• American Heart Association
• Back to Eden
• BakerRipley
• Beauty's Community Garden
• Brighter Bites
• Center for Civic & Public Policy Improvement
• Change Happens
  
• City of Baytown
• City of Houston Health Department
• City of Houston Mayor's Office of Complete Communities
  
• City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department
• City of Pasadena
• Collaborating Voices Foundation
• Communities for Better Health
• ExxonMobil
• First3Years: Babies in Baytown
• Fred Aguilar Promise Center
• Goose Creek CISD
• Harris County Precinct 1
• Harris County Precinct 2
• Harris County Public Health
• Harris Health System
• Healthy Outdoor Communities
• Hearts and Hands of Baytown, a ministry of Iglesia Cristo Viene
• Honor Humanity
• Houston Area Urban League
• Houston Food Bank
• Houston Parks Board
• Houston Symphony
• Kings Bike and Hike Community
• Lee College
• Lone Star College - Houston North
• Love Network of Baytown
• Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation
• METRO
• Nature and Eclectic Outdoors
• Near Northwest Management District
• OmniPoint Health
• Pasadena Chamber of Commerce
• Pasadena Health Center
• Pasadena ISD
• Prairie View A&M University
• Settegast Heights Redevelopment Corporation Northeast Community
• Southeast Harris Community Coalition, a program of the Bay Area Council on Drugs and Alcohol
  
• The Harris Center
• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• United Way of Greater Baytown Area and Chambers County
• UTHealth School of Public Health
• UT Physicians Victory Clinic