Holly Raffle

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Biography

Dr. Holly Raffle, Professor of Leadership and Public Service, leads the Partnership for Community-Based Prevention(opens in a new window) at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service. She is responsible for leading a portfolio of work centered on community-based behavioral health prevention and promotion, focusing on workforce and infrastructure development. Dr. Raffle was honored to serve as the founding Faculty Director of the Ohio Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Prevention and to have worked with the State of Ohio to support the Ohio Adult Allies Initiative. Currently, she is working with the State of Ohio on the Children of Incarcerated Parents Initiative as well as the Ohio Healthy Youth Environments Survey (OHYES!). At the federal level, her portfolio of work has been funded by SAMHSA and HRSA to provide intensive leadership development, training, technical assistance, and evaluation services to Ohio communities as they address critical needs and issues related to mental health and substance use disorder.

In 2013, Dr. Raffle was the recipient of the Firefly Award from the Fairfield County Family, Adult, and Children First Council, recognizing her commitment to community-level prevention. In 2014, Dr. Raffle was the recipient of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ Prevention Champion Award, recognizing her efforts to help state agencies, Behavioral Health Boards, and prevention providers rethink or redesign their prevention systems through the Strategic Prevention Framework. Additionally, she is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist and an active member of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) as well as the Ohio SOPHE, where she served a three-year term on the Board of Directors.

Courses Taught

• MPA5580: Program Evaluation
• MPA6030: Qualitative Research Methods in Public Administration