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Department Specialist
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Lansing, MI
Marcia Franks is the Project Coordinator for the Michigan Pediatric Epilepsy Project. She has over 30 years’ experience in public health, beginning her career at a rural local health department before moving to the Genesee County Health Department (GCHD) in Flint, Michigan. She spent over 20 years at the GCHD, most of this time supervising maternal-child health programs. Marcia has extensive experience in maternal-child health systems improvements, inter-agency collaboration, grant management, multi-agency partnership development, and process improvement. She is also experienced in needs assessments and evaluation. During her time at the GCHD, Marcia was responsible for two federal grants: a CDC grant (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) and a HRSA/MCHB grant (Healthy Start). She also supervised the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition Program. Marcia earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health Education from Central Michigan University.
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