Our Team
Myra G. Schneider, PhD, MSW
Research Associate – Washington, DC
"Achieving optimal health and well being for all members of our society will require an acknowledgement of the broad interconnectedness of all systems impacting our health…the social, behavioral, economic, and biological. Extending and improving all lives cannot be achieved without understanding and addressing the social and economic factors within an environment that impede rather than foster health."
(Myra Schneider)
Dr. Schneider joined CommonHealth ACTION with extensive experience in public health, epidemiology and social work. She has served in administrative and management capacities as a clinical social worker, and has taught and mentored social work and public health students. 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 exploring the health and health services utilization of older minority members in Florida, supported by the Institute on Aging.
Her research and 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. Dr. Schneider holds a PhD in public health and epidemiology, and a Master of Social Work. She received a 2 year NRSA post-doctoral research fellowship in the epidemiology of aging in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, as well as a fellowship in health outcomes research.
She holds memberships in the American College of Epidemiology and the American Public Health Association, and has presented research findings at the annual scientific meetings of the Gerontological Society of America for many years. Most recently, Dr. Schneider was selected to attend the 2011 Institute for Systems Science and Health (ISSH) funded by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and by the CDC. ISSH is a learning opportunity to provide investigators with an introduction to systems methodologies that may be used to study behavioral and social dimensions of public health.
