Erin A. Corriveau, MD, MPH

Professional Background

Erin Corriveau, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the departments of Family Medicine and Community Health as well as in Population Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is a practicing physician, faculty educator, and she directs the Community Health Division within the Family Medicine andamp; Community Health department. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment and maintains specialized clinical and public health training in care for adults and children affected by tuberculosis. Prior to serving Johnson County, she served Wyandotte County in the role of Deputy Health Officer.

Dr. Corriveau’s early career interests include strengthening health services to meet the needs of rural and underserved communities. While at the University of New Mexico, she helped develop and implement the Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) program, which continues to serve rural families throughout the state. While at Johns Hopkins and the University of New Mexico she served Native American families, both in terms of developing clinical guidelines and policies for standardized hepatitis C screening and treatment, as well as delivering direct care on the Zuni and Navajo reservations. She has a strong foundation in health policy, public health and prevention supplemented by practicum experiences in both rural and urban areas and public health organizations. Aside from practicing Family Medicine, much of her professional time is spent furthering her commitment to prevention and public health through collaborative projects such as health extension in Kansas, working to create a community-linked interdisciplinary care teams for patients and health professions students and residents, as well as working with the medical-legal partnerships on behalf of the families she serves.

Dr. Corriveau received her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College, her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and her public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed residencies in Family andamp; Community Medicine and Preventive Medicine before becoming a faculty physician and public health professional. She is thrilled by the challenge of creatively bringing together public health and medicine to achieve healthy outcomes for the residents of Kansas.

• MD, Univ of New Mexico-Main Campus
• MPH, Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
• Residency, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
• Residency, Preventive Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Research

Overview

Since the beginning of March 2020, my professional life has transitioned to full-time support of the Wyandotte County community during the COVID-19 pandemic. In my role as Deputy Health Officer for the County, I have been part of a small leadership team that has made testing accessible to all ill or exposed county residents. I have led efforts to establish “pop-up” testing sites across the community in an effort to decrease disparities in accessing testing. Our health department has been on the cutting edge of validation of new tests, as well as sustaining a working taskforce on Long-Term Care facility testing. I have contributed to a PCORI submission on best practices on testing within long-term care facilities.
Further, when it became apparent that racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 related health outcomes were magnified, during the first two-weeks of the pandemic I helped convene a new Wyandotte County Health Equity Taskforce. This group meets together for several hours each week and is committed to the health of our diverse neighborhoods, advising best practices in reaching especially vulnerable residents such as Black, Hispanic and refugee Wyandotte County residents. We have received foundation funding for this work, and continue to work together with community leaders to set up needed public health infrastructure to battle COVID-19. I am currently a Co-I on an NIH RadX-Up grant aimed at increasing COVID-19 testing in minoritized people and underserved areas around the state of KS.
I am also part of the University of Kansas “Daily Digest” scientific advisory group, which contributes material to a digest circulated throughout the State on COVID-19 related best practices and up-to-date information. I too am currently working on obtaining funding to investigate best practices in school reopening during the pandemic, as well as investigating how KS state policies has affected testing and vaccine distribution in communities of greatest need.