Emily J. Wilson
Dr. Emily J. Wilson is a public health practitioner, trainer, researcher, and certified health education specialist (CHES) with over ten years of experience working at the intersection of trauma, resilience, health, and learning.
As ECLC Project Manager, her portfolio includes professional development (PD) planning and design, communications, operations/logistics, development, and strategic planning; she helps to lead the Executive Planning and the Project Management Teams. Dr. Wilson completed her Ph.D. in Health Professions Education at Simmons University, where she was a Hazel Dick Leonard Interdisciplinary Research Fellow on Gender and conducted her dissertation on trauma-informed teaching in Massachusetts. In recognition of this research, Dr. Wilson received a grant from the Northern New England Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NNETESOL) to develop a trauma-informed ESOL teacher PD curriculum.
Before coming aboard as the ECLC Project Manager, Dr. Wilson worked as a learning collaborative manager and consultant to various non-profit organizations on projects focused on social determinants of health/learning, school health improvement, and capacity-building, including Trust for America’s Health and the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School. She also taught full-time as an Instructor of Public Health and the Pre-Health Science Program Coordinator at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, where she was recognized with the Provost's 2015 Teaching Innovation Award, and as an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Simmons University.
Prior to teaching, Dr. Wilson completed a predoctoral fellowship on the applications of trauma-informed care protocols and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) science in child and family-serving systems. Dr. Wilson holds an M.P.H. in Community Health from West Chester University, an M.S. in Urban Affairs from Hunter College, and professional certificates in Trauma Treatment from Boston University, and Developmental Disability Studies and Non-Profit/Public Management from Rutgers University. Dr. Wilson is also an activist on issues of health, human rights, social justice, and housing in Boston, where she lives with her husband, and has served as an elected member of the Regional Health Equity Council for New England.
