Randi E. Kaufman

Dynamic public health professional with extensive experience at LSUHSC School of Public Health, specializing in strategic planning and community engagement. Proven track record in workshop facilitation and curriculum development, enhancing health education initiatives. Adept at stakeholder collaboration and grant writing, driving impactful health programs and fostering community well-being.

• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
• American College of Health Executives (ACHE)
• American Evaluation Association (AEA)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA)
• Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)

• Certificate, Infodemiology Training Program, 03/31/25
• Life Coaching, Lumia, Los Angeles, CA, 2023
• Advanced Life Coaching, Lumia, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences and Policy Program, LSUHSC School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 01/2021
• Assistant Director, Louisiana Cancer Prevention and Control Programs, LSUHSC School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 10/2016, 12/2020
• Director, Louisiana Colorectal Health Project, LSUHSC School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 07/2015, 12/2020
• Assistant Professor (non-tenure track), Health Policy and Systems Management Program, LSUHSC School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 10/2013, 12/2021
• Director, Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, Dean's Office, LSUHSC School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 10/2013, 10/2016

• Louisiana Colorectal Health Program (Screen Up!), Organized Approaches to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening, Principal Investigator, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), $3,000,000, 06/30/20, 06/29/25
• Louisiana Colorectal Health Program, Organized Approaches to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening, Principal Investigator, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), $3,644,505, 06/30/15, 06/29/20
• Student Ambassador Outreach and Toolkit Development, Flu Near You, Principal Investigator, Skoll Global Threats Fund, $47,000, 09/15/15, 08/15/16
• Student Ambassador Outreach, Flu Near You, Principal Investigator, Skoll Global Threats Fund, $30,310, 09/01/14, 05/31/15
• Disaster Recovery Grant, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Grant Writer & Program Manager, $120,000, 2007

• Program Development and Academic Journal Writing, Screen Up!, 09/2023
• Grant Writing, Project Development, and Organizational Development, Taking Aim Against Cancer in Louisiana (TACL), 06/2022
• Writing, Project Development, Mentoring, Grants Technical Assistance, Louisiana Comprehensive Cancer Prevention and Control Programs, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 09/2020, 08/2023
• Associate/External Board Member, Institutional Review Board, Social Impact, Inc., 11/2017, 11/2018
• Proposal Editor, Baptist Health System/Mid-South NCORP Minority Underserved Consortium, Stephen Edge, MD, Baptist Health System, Memphis, TN, Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Minority/Underserved Community Sites, National Cancer Institute, Funded 2014
• Program Development and Grant Writing, Healthy Neighborhoods Across New Orleans, Eric Baumgartner, MD, Louisiana Public Health Institute, New Orleans, LA, Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health for Communities Organized to Respond and Evaluate (REACH CORE), CDC, Funded 2010
• Grant Writing, Playground Equipment, Mickey Markey Park Booster Club, New Orleans, LA (pro-bono), Injury Free Coalition for Kids, Allstate Foundation, Funded 2008

• Tailored and Targeted Messaging to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening Among African-American Men in Louisiana, Innovation Summit, Exact Sciences, Madison, WI, 10/08/24
• Life Coaching 101 for HIV Care, Southeast AIDS Education and Training Program, 09/26/24
• Coalitions, Roundtables and Partnerships, Southeastern Colorectal Cancer Consortium Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 06/28/18
• Access to Colonoscopy in Louisiana: Gastroenterologists and Medicaid Acceptance, CDC Cancer Conference, Atlanta, GA, 08/16/17
• Health Policy in Action, Behavioral and Community Health Seminar, LSUHSC School of Public Health, 04/07/16
• Quarterly Webinars on Evaluation Topics, Louisiana DHH/Office of Public Health, Teen Outreach Program, 02/2012, 05/2012, 08/2012, 12/2012, 04/2013, 07/2013, 12/2013, 07/2014, 12/2014, 04/2015
• Evaluation Session, Teen Outreach Program Retreat, LA DHH/OPH/Family Planning, New Orleans, LA, 05/2014, 01/2015
• Practice Experience Information Session, LSUHSC School of Public Health, 10/2013, 09/2014, 02/2015
• Federally Qualified Health Center Governance Planning, NO/AIDS Task Force Board of Trustees, 01/10/12
• Louisiana Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, Louisiana Rural Health Association Annual Meeting, Lafayette, LA, 12/2008
• Rebuilding Services after Hurricane Katrina, CDC National Breast and Cervical Early Detection Program's Program Managers Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 08/2008
• The State of the State, Louisiana Comprehensive Cancer Control Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, 06/2006
• The Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program, New Orleans Cancer Coalition, New Orleans, LA, 03/2008
• Public Health Challenges in a Unique Environment, Case Managers Training, National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New Orleans, LA, 05/2004
• Breast and Cervical Early Detection, Louisiana State University Health Sciences, Center, Disease Management Meeting, Baton Rouge, 05/2003, 03/2004
• Strategic Partnerships: CDC National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and NIH Cancer Information Service, Cancer Conference, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 09/2003
• HIV Prevention Community Planning: A Work in Progress, US Conference on AIDS, Sponsored by the National Minority AIDS Council, Miami, FL, 09/1997
• Annual Strategic Planning Process, HIV/STD Program, Louisiana Office of Public Health, 1997, 1998

• Peer Reviewer, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 04/2025
• Peer Reviewer, Journal of the Louisiana Public Health Association, 2020-Present
• Abstract Reviewer, Academic Public Health Caucus, American Public Health Association, 2017 Annual Meeting
• Abstract Reviewer, Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section, American Public Health Association, 2016 Annual Meeting
• Peer Reviewer, Preventing Chronic Disease, 2004-2011

• Elewonibi, B., Ballard, J., Mao, B. J., Birkoff, T., & Kaufman, R., Using digital media to create colorectal cancer lead-time messages for Black men in Louisiana, Poster presentation, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 11/2025
• Luo, T., Meyer, J., Kaufman, R., & Williams, D., Preliminary examination of a therapeutic food pantry study for UMC cancer patients, Poster presentation, Future of Health Speaks: Health Innovation Symposium, New Orleans, LA, 03/2020
• Brown, J., Kaufman, R., Ariail, M., & Williams, D., Patient navigation as a tool to address equity in cancer screening, Poster presentation, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 11/2019
• Patin, S., Kaufman, R., & Karlitz, J., Physician opinions of Medicaid and reaching the 80% by 2018 colorectal cancer screening goal, Poster presentation, Louisiana Colorectal Cancer Roundtable Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA, 10/2017
• Dominguez, O., Bhattacharjee, P., Meyer, J., Straif-Bourgeois, S., & Kaufman, R., Implementation of Flu Near You at the health department level, Poster presentation, Louisiana Public Health Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 03/2016
• Bhattacharjee, P., Dominguez, O., Meyer, J., Straif-Bourgeois, S., & Kaufman, R., Flu Near You: A participatory surveillance system in the digital age, Poster presentation, Honors Day, LSUHSC School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 04/2016
• Saketkoo, L. A., Fligelstone, K., Busman, E., Christensen, A., Cenac, S., Khalique, S., Aubin, A., Jaeger, V. K., Mawdsley, A., Gordon, J. K., Bayer, S., Kaufman, R., Baron, M., Steen, V. D., & Frech, T. M., Development of the Mawdsley Calcinosis Questionnaire (MCQ) version 1: A patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for systemic sclerosis-related calcinosis (SSc-Ca), Poster presentation, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11/2015
• Payne, N., Meyer, J., Kaufman, R., & Straif-Bourgeois, S., Influenza in the digital age: Crowdsourcing community-based health reports with Flu Near You, Poster presentation, Louisiana Public Health Association Annual Conference: Place Matters to Your Well-Being, Baton Rouge, LA, 04/2015
• Kaufman, R., Spruille-White, B., & Robinson, W., Conducting a rigorous evaluation with community-based organizations: Lessons from a randomized control trial of a statewide teen pregnancy program in Louisiana, Poster presentation, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 11/2014
• Kaufman, R., Spruille-White, B., Hayden, J. S., & Robinson, W., Online portal for the evaluation of a teen pregnancy prevention program, Poster presentation, Third Annual Teen Pregnancy Prevention Conference, Office of Adolescent Health, Administration on Children, Youth and Families & CDC, National Harbor, MD, 05/2013
• Kaufman, R., Prosocial rule breaking & public health practice: A systematic literature review, Poster presentation, EHESP's Doctoral Network Meeting, Paris, France, 05/2011
• Kaufman, R., Hayden, J., Nuss, H., & Williams, D., Using text message reminders to increase mammography rescreening among low-income, uninsured women in Louisiana, Poster presentation, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 11/08/10
• Hayden, J., & Kaufman, R., Using agile methods, in particular Scrum, to better manage and successfully complete projects, Poster presentation, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 11/08/10
• Nuss, H., Kaufman, R., Williams, D. L., Chiu, Y. W., & Andrews, P. A., Using tumor registry data to initiate and monitor a colorectal cancer early detection program, Poster presentation, International Association of Cancer Registries 31st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 06/2009

• Mandarin Chinese
• English, native
• Mandarin Chinese, basic proficiency

• 2021, Journal of the Louisiana Public Health Association, Cover
• 2018, American College of Physicians, Quality Connect Partner Award
• 2009, American Cancer Society, New Orleans Chapter, Spirit Award
• 2006, Johnson & Johnson, Community Health Care Award
• 2000, University of New Orleans, Alpha Theta Epsilon Honor Society
• 1984, University of Virginia, Intermediate Honors

• Non-Degree Graduate Studies, 2004-2009, MPH core courses and EPID 6211 Intermediate Epidemiology (18 hours), School of Public Health, LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA
• Non-Degree Graduate Study, 2009, Technical Editing (3 hrs), Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
• Mandarin Chinese Language Studies, 1986-1988, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, ROC