Phyllis Meadows, PhD

Phyllis Meadows, PhD

Phyllis Meadows, PhD, is director and health officer, City of Detroit, Department of Health and Wellness Promotion. She previously was program director in the Youth and Education area of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and a program director in the Kellogg Youth Initiative Partnership, a community-based effort to improve the quality of life for youth in Detroit. Previously, Dr. Meadows was director of the Detroit/Wayne County Infant Health Promotion Coalition. There she was responsible for the development, administration, implementation and evaluation of programs and activities aimed at improving the health of at-risk women and children. She also served as a continuing education instructor at Marygrove College, Detroit. Her duties included curriculum development and course instruction for a Certified Home Health Aide Program, and the recruitment of minorities into the health professions. She also served as an adjunct professor for Wayne State University and Oakland University Schools of Nursing. Before that, she served as a nursing supervisor/clinical nurse specialist for Michigan Cancer Foundation Services, Inc., and director of nursing for The Medical Team, Inc., both located in Metropolitan Detroit. She has served on the board of directors for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Southeast Michigan Chapter and the Detroit Community Health Connection. She is currently on the Detroit Primary Care Network, Hope Academy and Eureka Foundation boards and has served as a state and national advisor on maternal and child health issues. Her professional memberships include, among others, the American Nurse Association, the Michigan Nurse Association, the American Public Health Association, and the American Sociological Association. Dr. Meadows received her bachelor's degree in nursing from the Oakland University School of Nursing. She took her master's degree in nursing from Wayne State University School of Nursing and completed her doctoral degree in sociology, with an emphasis on communities and families. She was a fellow in the 1990 Kellogg International Leadership Program.