Alumni
Venessa M. Hadley, MPH, CHES
Health Resource Solutions, LLC, Washington, DC
Venessa M. Hadley, MPH, CHES, is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, but has been a part of the Washington DC community since 1986. Mrs. Hadley is the wife of Phillip E. Hadley Jr. and the mother of her one year-old boxer Maximus.
She has been in the healthcare profession for over ten years as a nurse and public health consultant focusing on issues that affect minority communities. Mrs. Hadley’s professional position is the culmination of a long pursuit of civilian and military opportunities in healthcare training and education. Beginning with two years as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, followed by a year of active duty in the Army as a licensed practical nurse (LPN) and cardiac technician, she then spent eight more years in the service, ultimately as an officer in the Medical Corp of the US Army National Guard. She is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Mrs. Hadley received her undergraduate degree in biology at Trinity College and her Masters in Public Health at George Washington University School of Public Health in Washington, DC.
Over the years she has worked in hospitals and clinics caring for chronically ill patients. Since she left clinical medicine to pursue public health, she has served as the study coordinator for a Tuberculosis/HIV prevention project for homeless individuals, the Director of a National AIDS organization dedicated to educating clinicians on HIV clinical management issues and the project Director for a National Training and Technical Assistance Project to ensure grantees are implementing mandates of the Ryan White CARE Act. Currently, Mrs. Hadley is the President and CEO of her own consulting company Health Resource Solutions, LLC where she is provides training and technical assistance to for profit and non-profit organizations on healthcare issues.
Mrs. Hadley is a subject matter expert on public health policy issues to include: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease and other infectious and chronic diseases. She is a frequent lecturer and conference presenter in academic, national and local arenas on Minority and Women’s Health issues.
She is the immediate past president of the George Washington Public Health Alumni Association, serves on the board of the George Washington University Alumni Association, the Board of Directors for N Street Village, Inc; a homeless shelter for women, and a Commissioner on the Baltimore Commission on HIV/AIDS.
She is also nationally and internationally recognized as an avid writer and has authored and co-authored many articles on public health issues as well as a book on Cultural Competence in HIV/AIDS in the African American community.
Mrs. Hadley is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. where she is very active in her community. In her free time she loves to read and write. She has written several articles on health and relationships that have been published in various online magazines. She is currently writing a fiction novel and a screenplay.
What I'd like to get out of this program?
I hope to learn a variety of skills necessary to run my consulting and nonprofit companies. Particularly around human resources and human relations. As well as how to deal with fnancial issues. I'm excited to be a part of this inaugural even and look forward to sharing with the rest of my peers in this experience.