Myra G. Schneider, PhD, MSW
Research Associate – Washington, DC

Dr. Schneider joined CommonHealth ACTION with years of experience in public health, epidemiology and social work. Dr. Schneider has extensive experience in the mental health field working in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings, including in administrative and supervisory capacities. She has served as director of outpatient clinical services in a community mental health center, as director of an employee assistance program, has provided clinical supervision to staff in numerous settings, and has mentored graduate students. She was an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of South Florida for a number of years, training and supervising graduate students and student interns.

Following receipt of her doctorate in public health and epidemiology, Dr. Schneider worked as a research faculty member at the University of South Florida assisting other faculty in study design, data collection, and statistical analyses of large population level datasets, publishing manuscripts, and submitting grant applications. Dr. Schneider was co-investigator of a multi-wave study investigation the health and health services utilization of older minority members in Florida, supported by the Institute on Aging. She received an NIH postdoctoral National Research Service Award to study the epidemiology of aging in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and a fellowship to study population health outcomes and health services utilization at UMB. She has presented research findings regarding investigations of the health of older minority populations at national scientific meetings and has published and reviewed manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals in that substantive area. Dr. Schneider holds memberships in the American College of Epidemiology and the American Public Health Association and has presented for many years at the annual scientific meetings of the Gerontological Society of America. Her publications have focused upon population health outcomes, health disparities in minority and vulnerable populations, and issues related to aging and health in racial and ethnic populations.

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