ABOUT US
Education, Experience & Leadership
Denise Anderson & Associates (DA&A), LLC, was founded by Dr. Anderson. We are an independent public health and health care consultancy business. Founded in Education, Experience & Leadership Expertise.
Dr. Denise Anderson holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology with a concentration in Dietetics obtained from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2002 (until 2013), she became a Registered Dietitian and received her Master’s in Public Health from Rutgers University, School of Public Health. She completed her doctorate in a joint (Rutgers and NJIT) Ph.D. program in Urban Systems - Health Track.
Dr. Anderson is a National Center for Quality Assurance (NCQA), Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), Certified Content Expert (CCE). She has taught Human Resources Administration, Strategic Planning, and Health Systems and Policy as a part-time lecturer at Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration and worked as Adjunct Faculty at William Paterson University (WPU), School of Public Health, teaching Disparities in Health.
She is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Prevention Specialist (PHPS) fellow, and an Eagleton Institute of Politics fellow, she has over nineteen years of experience in public health as a generalist.
Her recent work includes serving at the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) as Managing Director for the Office of Primary Care and Rural Health (OPCRH), overseeing programs and services for underrepresented and vulnerable populations. Before departing NJDOH, she served as Executive Director, Maternal Care Quality Collaborative (MCQC), Founder and Principal for the Department’s first-ever Rapid Mobile Response Team. Lastly, she briefly served at New Community Corporation as Department Head for Health and Human Services overseeing mental health and substance use services, transitional housing, workforce readiness, and youth services. Dr. Anderson is the founder and CEO of Denise Anderson & Associates (DA&A), LLC, an independent public health and health care consultancy business.
Talk to Us About Our Subject Matter Expertise
Health Care Reform
Denise’s dissertation work examined a health care delivery model (the patient-centered medical home) and its ability to reduce health disparities in low-income, racial, and ethnic minorities. Her research interests are health care reform, health care systems, health care delivery models of care, urban systems, urban populations, public health, health disparities, social determinants of health, African American family formation and dynamics, HIV/AIDS, race relations, social justice, gender equity, and Black feminism.
Service Line Areas - Population Health Focus
Birth defects, behavioral health, chronic disease management, COVID-19 pandemic response, developmental disabilities, HIV, maternal health, primary health care, mental health, persons experiencing homelessness, the recently incarcerated, transitional housing, workforce development, and youth services.
DA&A maintains a list of highly qualified associates engaged to participate in projects for additional skill sets, scalability, or both, pending the scope of work.
Discover Our Differentiators
Formally trained with hands-on experience in legislative policymaking
Public and non-profit sectors experience
Built and managed public health programs at the local, state, and federal levels
Healthcare and Public Health Integrator