Director of Community Engaged Research
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Andrea Bradley Ewing, M.A., MPA, is the Director of Community Engaged Research in the Division of Health Services and Outcomes Research at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. For more than a decade Ms. Bradley-Ewing has garnered extensive experience conducting community engaged and community based participatory research (CBPR) studies, including directing large intervention trials exploring the utility of behavioral counseling strategies, including cognitive behavioral therapy and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to promote health behavior change. She has collaborated with patients and families, heath care providers, and faith and community-based organizations to address health issues affecting communities. For the current study, Ms. Bradley-Ewing partnered with researchers, health care providers, parents and community stakeholders to develop and refine interventions to increase vaccination uptake among adolescents.