Alumni
Chantay
C. Walker, PhD, MAEd, BA, CHES
Health Education and Promotion, Tennessee
Chantay Walker, Ph.D., M.A.Ed, B.A., CHES, is the Director of Health Education and Promotion for the Metropolitan Public Health Department in Nashville, Tennessee. She is also the Project Director for the Center of the Study of Spirituality and Health at the Association of Black Cardiologists Incorporated located in Atlanta, Georgia and holds an adjunct faculty position with the University of St. Francis located in Joliet, Illinois.
Dr. Walker received her bachelor of arts degree (cum laude) from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1991; a masters of education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama in 1994; and a doctorate of philosophy degree in Health Education/Health Promotion from both the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1998. She completed a post doctoral study program in Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Management at the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care (Indiana University Center for Aging Research) through Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) located in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received credentials as a Certified Health Education Specialist in 1996.
Cumulatively, Dr. Walker has almost ten years experience in health education/health promotion. She has demonstrated creativity in devising a number of health promotion campaigns with a particular focus on addressing the effects of religion on health disparities affecting African Americans. Dr. Walker is published extensively and has made numerous presentations throughout the United States on her research.