Domenica Perrone
Domenica Perrone is a community engagement practitioner, youth worker, researcher, and public health advocate. She is the Director for Community Engagement and Outreach for UMass Chan Medical School’s Collaborative in Health Equity. Previously she was also the Director of Community Engagement and Volunteering at Clark University from 2022-2024. From December 2019 through March 2022, she worked as a Project Manager for the Commissioner of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the City of Worcester. Previous to her role in HHS, she worked as Program Evaluator and Program Coordinator at the Latino Education Institute at Worcester State University. She has also worked as a Research Assistant for the Collaborative for Youth and Community Justice at Clark University. She holds a Masters in Community Development and Planning and an MBA from Clark University and Bachelors of Arts from Emerson College. Domenica serves on the board for Worcester Community Action Council, the Community Advisory Board for the Latino Education Institute, and has served on the Leadership Council and as Chair for the Diversity Committee of the Women's Initiative of Central MA. Domenica was the 2024 Coalition for Healthy Greater Worcester’s Health Equity Award, the 2021 recipient for Central Mass Housing Alliance’s Judy Brown-Cahill award and has also been recognized by the Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty, Pulse Magazine’s People to Watch, and Worcester Magazine’s Women to Watch. As a Latina and immigrant with lived experience, Domenica has a passion in advocating for health equity and social justice. She is committed to working with Worcester organizations, leaders, advocates, and youth toward these goals.
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Community Engagement and Outreach - This pillar aims to cultivate, nurture, and sustain community embeddedness and trust by anchoring community embeddedness in how we coalesce existing and new collaborative efforts which are: a) community-driven, community-partnered, and community-led; b) address the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the drivers of persistent health inequities; c) engage learners, faculty, and staff, inclusive of individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine (URiM); d) nurture community workforce development and capacity building, and e) advance community-engaged research participation, as well as educational, and service opportunities both locally, regionally, and globally.
The CHE aims to anchor community embeddedness and trust in coalescing existing and new collaborative efforts which are: a) community-driven, community-partnered, and community-led; b) address the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the drivers of persistent health inequities; c) engage URiM learners, faculty, and staff; d) nurture workforce development and capacity building, and e) advance community-engaged research, educational, and service opportunities both locally and globally.
Community Engagement at UMass Chan Meical School can be exemplified through the following departments and programs. For additional requests and opportunities for collaboration between the CHE and community partnership to advance health equity, contact Domenica Perrone, Director for Community Engagement and Outreach (domenica.perrone@umassmed.edu).
The Office of Community & Government Relations: https://www.umassmed.edu/ocgr/community-engagement/community-engagement-resources/
Dynamic Futures: https://www.umassmed.edu/ocgr/dynamic-futures/
Prevention Research Center: https://www.umassmed.edu/prc/
Family Medicine and Community Health: https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/faculty-resources/
Worcester Pipeline Collaborative: https://www.umassmed.edu/gsbs/outreach-programs/worcester-pipeline-collaborative/