Julie Gleason-Comstock
Administrative Title
Assistant Professor, Full-timePopulation Health Sciences
Office Phone
(313) 577-6681
Biography
Julie Gleason-Comstock, PhD, MCHES, is an Educator, Master Certified Public Health Education Specialist (MCHES), and Public Health Practitioner and Researcher. Dr Gleason’s research and teaching focuses on community-based participatory research and health education. She conducts community intervention research, imbedding surveys and focus groups in longitudinal studies, including randomized controlled trials.
Teaching and Mentoring
Through the Wayne State University (WSU) Department of Family Medicine & Public Health Sciences (DFMPHS), she is Instructor for FPH7760 Community Health Education, FPH7120 Global Public Health, and FPH7430 Application of Public Health Principles and serves as a Research Advisor for FPH7990 Directed Study. Dr. Gleason mentors medical students through the School of Medicine Research Elective 1B: MD15542. She has also taught health education in the WSU College of Education. Dr. Gleason has served on WSU Doctoral Dissertation Committees in the School of Nursing, School of Social Work, College of Education and Department of Communication, and is Faculty in the Global Health Research Collaborative Seminar.
Public Health Practice and Research
For over a decade (1989-2003), Dr. Gleason-Comstock worked at state, regional, and local Public Health as a public health practitioner with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Special Office of AIDS Prevention (SOAP), City of Detroit Health Department Health Resources & Services Administration Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, and the Southeastern Michigan Health Association Michigan Care Improvement Registry. Dr. Gleason received a Distinguished Service Award from the City of Detroit City Council for her work in HIV/AIDS and from the Michigan Department of Community Health Service Award for work with the Southeastern Michigan Childhood Immunization Registry. Dr. Gleason served on the Department of Health & Wellness Promotion Health Advisory Committee from 2006 to 2008.
As Principal Investigator, she focuses on translational practice and research through Community-based Participatory Research. Building on her University of Minnesota Community Education dissertation and research with the Minnesota Heart Health Program, she has conducted and published three Detroit-based randomized controlled trials: HIV/AIDS Oraquick Special Project on Education and Testing with Community Health Awareness Group, Inc., E4H2 (Eating for Heart Health) with the City of Detroit Health Department (PMID: 23948646), and AchieveBP with the WSU Department of Emergency Medicine. Since 2023, her Public Health Research Lab (PHRL) has engaged public health undergraduate and graduate students and medical students as research co-authors in peer-reviewed conference presentations and PubMed articles. Dr. Gleason was Editor for the Michigan Journal of Public Health from 2010 – 2016 and has been an Academic Editor for PLoS One since 2023.
Please see Dr. Gleason-Comstock’s CV and the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Biotechnology Information MyBibliography. Attachments for additional detail.