Parasol Health Consulting (PHC) was founded on a mission to provide curriculum design, strategy, and training programs to meet current and future demands of the health care industry.
The (PHC) team draws on a combined 50+ years of experience in areas of health education, promotion, wellness, workforce development, and strategy. We excel at designing trainings and programs to fit an evolving workforce.
Public health touches all communities, workplaces, and families. At Parasol Health Consulting, we bring an umbrella of services to ensure your organization is covered for today, and also for the future.
1. An Independent Player
2. Critical Thinking
3. Pro communication skills
4. Strong leadership skills
5. Multi-tasking and punctual
6. Resourcefulness
Diana Yassanye began practicing public health 28 years ago. She thrives when providing organizational leadership and partnership coordination.
Dr. McGee brings over two decades of national and international experience with clinical research, training, evaluation, education, and direct public health service.
Tony is an Infectious Diseases physician and medical epidemiologist who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 26 years.
Loren is a highly experienced healthcare, epidemiology professional, and Army Officer veteran with a proven track record of success in leadership, scientific rigor and applied public health practice.
John Donovan has been working as a public health practitioner for almost 15 years and for the last 13 years has led and provided support around all things connected to communications while at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Dr. Ali is a passionate public health leader with 16 years of experience spanning 15 countries. His extensive achievements encompass leading and overseeing the implementation of diverse research and non‐research projects.
Dr. Chavez brings decades of specialized federal select agent and environmental field and laboratory inspection experience to technical training and response planning, including large animal veterinary expertise.
Dr. Jones has served as a government official in preparedness and response operations, strategy, policy, and communications for over 20 years.
A seasoned public health official in national policy, Ms. Stevens is also a Human Centered Design, facilitation, and partnerships strategy expert.
Dr. Ranelle Brew has a combined 25+ years of higher education, management, online teaching, research, training, and public health practice experience. Dr. Brew’s passion is the design, implementation, and evaluation of projects in Public Health, with specific training in health education, promotion, and prevention. She has worked in public health positions in federally funded research, clinical care, and health and wellness. Most recently she’s led the design of a startup Master of Public Health program, earned tenure and full Professor, Department Chair, and Program Director status in higher education.
She has designed full degrees in health professions and public health program curricula, certificates, trainings, workshops, and badges. She has facilitated and trained faculty in hybrid, weekend executive, and online courses. She is the author of instructor materials for F.A. Davis Publishing for Medical Terminology, Simplified, and a published children’s book entitled Healthy Days.
Melding academics and research, her interests include diversity pipeline programs in health professions, breastfeeding, disability and accessibility, after-school wellness programming, and global health. She has directed an annual summer health professions workforce development project since 2009, which won a 2018 Michigan Hometown Health Hero Award for its pipeline and diversity impact in the community as well as the 2020 National Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), Clarence E. Pearson Award. She has been instrumental in creating 100’s of community-based partnerships, including Lowell Community Wellness, where she co-led 5+ years of after-school wellness camps for elementary and middle school students and adults in the Lowell Public School system winning a 2021 Michigan Hometown Health Hero Award.
Dr. Brew is passionate about global health and has developed and led annual global and domestically focused-public health service-learning trips since 2008. She’s traveled to and has partnerships in Nairobi, Kenya, Ghana, West Africa, Beijing, China, Tacloban City, Philippines, Manenberg, South Africa, Athens/Ikaria, Greece, Nicoya Coast of Costa Rica, and Sardinia, Italy as examples. Her current global research focuses on the five Blue Zones locations, studying centenarians. In 2023, she was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Specialist accolade for her extensive global research.
Ranelle has presented, authored, and co-authored over 100 papers, posters, and presentations on public health topics. She has facilitated workshops, been a speaker and keynote speaker, mentors graduate and doctoral level students, and leads and chairs numerous public health boards and workgroups.
Dr. Brew serves in the public health community extensively. She has served as a President of the Michigan Public Health Association (MPHA) from 2013-2015, President of the Great Lakes Chapter of the Society of Public Health Education (GLC-SOPHE) in 2019, and is an active member 20+ year member of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and social co-chair for the Public Health Education Health Promotion section, and a national member of the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE), Advisory Board member and Chair of the Kent County Early Health Careers programs, National Kidney Foundation Board of Directors, and the Grand Rapids Junior League.
Dr. Brew’s Doctoral and double Master’s degrees are from Columbia University, Teachers College in Education, and Health Sciences respectively. Her doctoral research included Adolescent Asthma Health Education in New York City public schools through collaboration between New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University.
Diana Yassanye began practicing public health 27 years ago. She thrives when providing organizational leadership and partnership coordination. She is experienced in formulating scalable partner strategies and directly engaging partners in public health, academia, and healthcare. She is a trainer, educator, partnership-builder, and strategist. During her federal career, she also became one of the few experts in the vital niche of public-private partnership conflicts of interest and ethics.
Her activities at CDC included broad-reaching innovation to leverage other sectors and disciplines for public health. She has been involved in multiple national and international public health emergency responses including H1N1, Hurricane Sandy, Zika, Ebola, Operation Allies Welcome Afghan evacuation, and COVID-19. Her last federal response was helping build and eventually leading the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, including 21 pharmacy groups and 41,000 pharmacies providing COVID vaccine in their communities, reaching 90% of the population within 5 miles of their homes.
She lead efforts to apply technology and social tech. She was the lead for the HHSignite-funded microtasking pilot called CDCology, linking university students to CDC projects, which secured $20k for the demonstration activity. She and a small team created the first sanctioned LinkedIn group and social media policy municipalities, and 20 full and part-time health departments/districts. She has been involved in preparedness projects ranging from alternative countermeasure dispensing models to climate change and public health.
Her first chapter was a decade working on HIV prevention (Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR; Camp Adventure, Izmir, Turkey; Free AIDS Counseling, Treatment, and Support (FACTS), Paris, France; AIDS Education and Training Centers, Newark, NJ) and STEM/Health curriculum development nationally and internationally at grassroots organizations and NGOs (Girls Inc., NY, NY; Curiouser & Curiouser: Scientific Events for Youth, NY, NY).
Diana has a B.A. in Childhood Education from Cal State Northridge and an M.S. in Health Education from Columbia University Teachers College. When she is not building a stronger health ecosystem, she is at the softball field, cheering on her teenage daughter, reading science fiction, cooking Moroccan and middle eastern specialties, listening to podcasts while tending the native pollinators in her garden, or on bike rides with her husband.
