Power Hour: Grab a Bite, Get Insight – Beyond Representation: Developing Meaningful Culturally Tailored Interventions

Presented by:
Karah Alexander, PhD, MPH, MS, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University
Dr. Karah Alexander got her PhD in nursing from Emory University and a graduate certificate in health literacy from the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State University. She is also a proud undergrad alumna of Spelman College. As an interdisciplinary health scholar, much of Karah’s work aligns with exploring literacy as a factor of health inequities in the Black community, as well as designing and testing culturally appropriate interventions for Black family caregivers of persons living with dementia. She has co-led a pilot health literacy improvement project at Emory Healthcare and served as a subject matter expert in health literacy for the Atlanta Region Community Health Workforce Advancement Program and the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation. Since 2021, she has worked on the intervention development and testing team for the Caregiving while Black Course, a novel culturally tailored psychoeducation course for Black dementia caregivers. She also served as an Instructional Design Coordinator with the Rosalyn Carter Institute for Caregivers leading a culturally tailored initiative of their ‘Dealing with Dementia’ Program. Currently, she is a clinical coordinator for “Caregiver Bootcamp”, an intervention to help new caregivers master the first 100 days of caregiving. Karah has taught undergraduate and graduate nursing and public health students the importance of culturally appropriate interventions and effective processes to do so.