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Dr. Jennifer Redmond Knight is a part-time Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health and a member of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Cancer Control Program. In this role, she provides leadership related to quality implementation of lung cancer screening efforts (KY LEADS Collaborative™ and the QUILS™ Group), the Kentucky Cancer Consortium, practice, service and workforce development efforts in the College of Public Health and evaluation for colorectal health systems grant. She is also a coalition coach, meeting facilitator and strategic planner who is passionate about catalyzing diverse groups of people to work together to make a bigger impact than they could on their own.

Dr. Knight has extensive experience and interest in cancer prevention and control; coalition and partnership sustainability; policy, systems, and environmental changes; meeting facilitation, leadership, strategic planning, productivity, and focus and is currently training to be a CliftonStrengths® coach.

She also has expertise in evaluation, epidemiology, and program development-related work.

Education

  • DrPH, Health Services Management
    • University of Kentucky
  • MPH, Epidemiology
    • University of Kentucky
  • BA, Communications
    • Ouachita Baptist University

Research Interests

  • Affordable Care Act
  • Health care access and cancer
  • Lung cancer prevention and detection
  • Cancer prevention and control evaluation

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