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This program will only be offered online. 1.0 hour Indiana (Distance Education) CLE credit will be available, but you must register for the Zoom Webinar using the link below and you must give your attorney number when prompted at the end of the Webinar. Please join us via a computer or the Zoom App. Telephone call-ins will not be eligible for CLE credit.

• Zoom recording of this event: https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/4.16+Hall+Center+Virtual+Grand+Rounds+with+Montrece+Ransom/1_ousrdukg​

About the Speaker:

Montrece McNeill Ransom, JD, MPH currently serves as a Senior Public Health Analyst and is the Team Lead for Public Health Law Training and Workforce Development with the Public Health Law Program (PHLP) in the Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Ms. Ransom began her career in public health law in 2001, when she was appointed to CDC as a Presidential Management Fellow. During her career, she has served as the lead coordinator for CDC’s former annual Public Health Law Conference, developed novel partnerships between CDC and the American Bar Association (ABA) and the American Health Lawyers Association, and led the development of the Public Health Law Academy, an on-line, on-demand platform for public health law related trainings and tools.     

Ms. Ransom’s current focus is on building the competency of the public health workforce to understand and use law as a public health tool. In this capacity, she leads a team of professionals and develops competency models, develops and delivers public health law curricula, and oversees the workforce development components of CDC’s first cooperative agreement focused on building the legal capacity of the public health workforce. She has presented trainings, taught courses, and published on a broad range of topics including public health emergency law, tribal public health law, health disparities, careers in public health, law and ethics, and environmental public health law.  

She earned her law degree from the University of Alabama, School of Law, and her Master of Public Health from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. Ms. Ransom holds an undergraduate degree in Speech Communication from Columbus State University. She is also an Association of Talent Development certified trainer and facilitator, and currently serves as Contributing Faculty with the School of Health Sciences at Walden University, teaching the Capstone undergraduate public health, health studies, and healthcare management students. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics, and the Editor of the forthcoming textbook, Public Health Law: Concepts and Case Studies, New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company (in press).

In 2017, Ms. Ransom was the recipient of the American Public Health Association Law Section’s Jennifer Robbins Award for the Practice of Public Health Law, and in 2019, she was honored as the ABA’s Health Law Section’s Champion of Diversity and Inclusion. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics.

Also known as “The Empowermenteur,” in her spare time, Ms. Ransom is an empowerment coach for high achieving women and the co-author of the “Glambitous Guide to Greatness: How to go from Doubt to Destiny and from Surviving to Thriving.”  She is currently pursuing an Executive Leadership Coaching Certificate from Georgetown University.