Jessica Ehule (she/her), EDC project director, is a courageous public health leader with a passion for addressing health and racial equity through highlighting root cause issues that contribute to inequities in health outcomes. She holds over a decade of experience in program design and implementation, facilitation, systems change, and leading with a health equity lens.
Ehule is the associate director of EDC’s Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network. Previously, she was the Birth Justice program director at I Be Black Girl, where she helped establish the foundation of their maternal health work. She also served as director of programs at CityMatCH, a national maternal and child health organization that serves local health departments and designs programs to improve outcomes, increase workforce capacity, and respond to emerging issues. She has published on addressing equity in birth outcomes.
Ehule holds an MS in Public Health from Meharry Medical College and an MS in Chemistry from Tennessee State University. She is trained in several facilitation methods, including Technology of Participation Facilitation Methods and Rx Racial Healing.