Dr. Knight is a facilitator and public health professional who helps leaders responsible for coalitions, nonprofits and teams figure out how to get people to work better together so that they can make a greater impact together than they could on their own. Dr. Knight is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health and a member of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Cancer Control Program. She has been involved in public health leadership and cancer prevention and control since 2003 when she worked for the Kentucky Cancer Program, an academic and community-based organization. Since 2006, Dr. Knight has served in a leadership role with the Kentucky Cancer Consortium particularly focused colon and lung cancer prevention efforts. She has her BA in Communications from Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, Kentucky and DrPH in Health Services Management from the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. She has strong experience and interest in group facilitation, partnership sustainability, leadership, program development, evaluation, cancer prevention and control, epidemiology, and policy, systems and environmental change efforts. She develops weekly blog posts focused on partnership and coalition building at jredmondknight.com.
