Staff Bio
Stacey M. Jenkins, MPH, CHES, serves as the Director of the Division of Jurisdictional Support in CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Center.
Role at CDC
Ms. Jenkins provides agency-wide support and coordination of public health partnerships. She leads a team of public health advisors and analysts in administering grants and umbrella cooperative agreements with state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) jurisdictional health departments, working collaboratively across CDC to ensure that CDC-funded public health partner contributions are integrated with and add value to CDC’s public health mission and activities.
Previous experience
Ms. Jenkins previously served as director of the Division of Program and Partnership Services within the former CDC Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support. In that role, she provided agency-wide support and coordination of public health partnerships. Ms. Jenkins led a team of public health advisors and analysts in administering seven funding mechanisms with STLT public health partners, totaling over $3.5B. Their portfolio included the $2.25B CDC-RFA-OT21-2103: National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities.
Prior to that, Ms. Jenkins served as deputy director of the Division of Public Health Performance Improvement within CDC's Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, where she assisted the division director in providing guidance and strategic direction on a cross-agency system of performance and accountability that helped position STLT public health agencies to achieve and advance the public health outcomes intended and supported by CDC. Ms. Jenkins has worked in the area of programmatic and strategic planning, and provided technical assistance to CDC-funded and non-funded partners for 21 years. She also served as CDC's Adult and Older Adult goal team lead and held several leadership positions in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's Divisions of Oral, Reproductive, and Adolescent and School Health.
Ms. Jenkins’s career began in 1992 as a research assistant with the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Prior to coming to CDC, she held several public health positions in local, state, regional, private, and non-profit sectors. She was a senior relationship manager for WebMD, a program manager at the Emory University Regional Training Center, school health coordinator for Planned Parenthood of Georgia, and senior public health educator for the DeKalb County Board of Health.
Education
Ms. Jenkins has a master’s degree in public health, with an emphasis in behavioral science and health education, from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She also has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, and she is a certified health education specialist.