Julie Gleason-Comstock
Administrative Title
Assistant Professor, Full-timePopulation Health Sciences
Office Phone
(313) 577-6681
Biography
Julie Gleason-Comstock, PhD, MCHES, is a Research Educator and Master Certified Public Health Education Specialist (MCHES).
Teaching, Mentoring and Editorial Leadership
Dr. Gleason-Comstock currently teaches online and onsite in WSU Canvas courses. Through Family Medicine & Public Health Sciences, she is the Instructor for FPH7760 Community Health Education and FPH7120 Global Public Health and serves as a Research Advisor for FPH7990 Directed Study. Dr. Gleason mentors medical students through her Public Health Research Lab (PHRL) and the School of Medicine Research Elective 1B: MD15542. Her graduate and undergraduate public health students are PubMed publication co-authors and peer-reviewed conference presenters.
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 (GHRC) Seminar. She served on the City of Detroit Department of Health & Wellness Promotion (DHWP) Health Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2008.
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.
Public Health Practice and Research
For over a decade (1989-2003), Dr. Gleason-Comstock worked in State, Regional, and Local Public Health as a public health practitioner as Continuing Care Coordinator with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services/Special Office of AIDS Prevention (SOAP), as Coordinator for the City of Detroit Health Department Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Ryan White Title I HIV/AIDS Program, and as the Detroit Coordinator for the Southeastern Michigan Health Association (SEMHA, a coalition of public health officers) Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR). She continues to expand her public health practice partnerships in the development of Community Health Worker led interventions in heart health education and substance use disorders prevention.
As Principal Investigator, she focuses on translational practice and research through Community-based Participatory Research and Randomized Controlled Trials. Building on her community education experience as a Research Associate with the University of Minnesota/Minnesota Heart Health Program (MHHP), she conducted two Detroit-based randomized controlled trials: E4H2 (Eating for Heart Health) and AchieveBP (www.clinicaltrials.gov NCT02069015).
Please see Dr. Gleason-Comstock’s CV and the National Institutes of Health/Nation Center for Biotechnology Information MyBibliography Attachments for additional detail.