Frances Dunn Butterfoss, Ph.D.

EVMS Foundation Professor of Pediatrics
Eastern Virginia Medical School

Division Director

Division of Community Health & Research

 

E. V. Williams Hall
855 W. Brambleton Ave
Norfolk, VA 23510
Phone: (757) 668-6429 
Email:  butterfd@evms.edu

  Background | Research Interests | Current Projects | Selected Publications
Background
Dr. Butterfoss received her B.S. in Nursing and M.S. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in Health Promotion and Education from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. She is an Associate Editor of Health Promotion Practice and past President of the national Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE).
   
Research Interests
Dr. Butterfoss' research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of community coalitions for health promotion including: asthma, tobacco control, immunizations, alcohol and other drug abuse, injury prevention, nutrition, and breast and cervical cancer. She has developed tools and methods to aid practitioners and evaluators in the self-assessment, development, maintenance and evaluation of coalitions and their efforts. With her colleague, Michelle Kegler, she developed the Community Coalition Action Theory that explains how coalitions move from formation to institutionalization as well as the constructs that predict successful planning, implementation, and community change outcomes
   
Past Projects  
  • National Immunization Coalition Training Institute (1995-1998) Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine. Provided intensive 3-day trainings to teams of immunization directors, coalition coordinators and epidemiologists from 50 states, 29 metropolitan areas and 7 U.S. territories on how to build, sustain and evaluate coalitions that intervened at the local and state level to improve childhood immunization rates

  • Allies Against Asthma Community Intervention, (2001-2006) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. One of 7 pilot sites nationwide to improve the quality of life for asthmatic children and their families.

Current Projects

  • Consortium for Infant & Child Health, CINCH (1993- present) – A community partnership to promote health and prevent disease among all children in Hampton Roads. CINCH operates through grant funds and financial and material contributions from partners who help to plan,  implement, and evaluate its many programs. CINCH focuses on immunizations, asthma, perinatal health, obesity prevention, injury prevention, access to health care and health insurance.

  • Project Immunize Virginia, PIV (1995-present). Virginia Department of Public Health, Division of Immunization. A statewide partnership to promote immunization across the lifespan.

  • Browning Community Health Ambassadors. (1996-present) Anonymous donor, Virginia March of Dimes Foundation, HUD, and Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority. Program using lay health visitors in public/subsidized housing to promote perinatal and child health, asthma management, immunization, access to health insurance and health care providers.
  • Covering Kids & Families. (2002-2007) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Virginia Health Care Foundation, Sentara Health Foundation, and United Way Peninsula Give Smart Foundation. Program to find effective ways to enroll children who are eligible, but unenrolled for Medicaid or FAMIS state health insurance programs.
Selected Publications
  1. Butterfoss FD, Goodman RM, Wandersman A. Community coalitions for health promotion and disease prevention. Health Education Research 8(3):315-30, 1993.
  2. Butterfoss FD, Goodman RM, Wandersman A. Community coalitions for prevention and health promotion: Factors predicting satisfaction, participation and planning. Health Education Quarterly, 23(1):65-79, 1996.
  3. Morrow AL, Rosenthal J, Lakkis HD, Bowers JC, Butterfoss FD, Crews RC, Sirotkin B. A population-based study of access to immunization among urban Virginia children served by public, private and military health care systems. Pediatrics, 101(2):e5, 1998.
  4. Butterfoss FD, Morrow AL, Rosenthal J, Dini E, Crews RC, Webster JD, Louis P. CINCH: An urban coalition for empowerment and action. Health Education & Behavior, 25(2): 212-225, 1998.
  5. Morrow AL, Guerrero ML, Shults J, Calva JJ, Lutter C, Bravo J, Ruiz-Palacios G, Morrow RC, Butterfoss FD. Efficacy of home-based peer counseling to promote exclusive breast-feeding: A randomized controlled trial. The Lancet, 35: 1226-1231, 1999.
  6. Butterfoss, FD, Morrow, AL. (Editors). Family & Community Health, Child and Adolescent Health Issues: 22(1) and 22(2), 1999.
  7. Alfers, D, Butterfoss FD. Evaluation on a Shoestring: Key to Success for Virginia Prenatal Incentive Program. Health Promotion Practice, 1(3): 259-267, 2000.
  8. Butterfoss FD. SOPHE 2001 Presidential Address: The Power of Partnerships. Health Education & Behavior, 29(2), 2002:162-169.
  9. Butterfoss FD, Morrow AL, Webster JD, Crews C. The Coalition Training Institute: Training for the Long Haul. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 9(6):522-529, 2003.
  10. Butterfoss FD. Building Effective Coalitions with Consultation and Technical Assistance: Virginia's Healthy Start Initiative, Health Promotion Practice, 5(2), 118-126, 2004.
  11. Butterfoss FD and Francisco VT. Evaluating community partnerships and coalitions with practitioners in mind. Health Promotion Practice, 5(2):108-114, 2004.
  12. Butterfoss FD, Kelly CK, Taylor-Fishwick J. Community planning that magnifies the community's voice: Allies Against Asthma, Health Education & Behavior, 32(1):113-128, 2005.
  13. Butterfoss FD, Dunet DO. State Plan Index: a tool for assessing the quality of state public health plans. Preventing Chronic Diseases [serial online] 2005 Apr [date cited]. Available from: URL:http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2005/apr/04_0089.htm.
  14. Butterfoss FD. Process evaluation for community participation. Annual Review of Public Health, volume 27:323-40, 2006.
  15. Butterfoss FD, Major DA, Cardenas, RA, Clarke SM, Isaacman D, Mason JD, Clemens DL. What Providers from general emergency departments say about implementing a pediatric asthma pathway, Clinical Pediatrics, 45(4):325-334, 2006.
  16. Butterfoss FD, Gilmore LA, Krieger JW, LaChance LL, Lara M, Meurer JR, Nichols EA, Orians CE, Peterson JW, Rose SW, Rosenthal MP. From formation to action: How Allies Against Asthma coalitions are getting the job done. Health Promotion Practice, 7:34-43S, 2006.
  17. Butterfoss FD, LaChance LL, Orians CE. Building Allies coalitions: Why formation matters. Health Promotion Practice,7:23-33S, 2006.

Books/Book Chapters

  1. Butterfoss, FD, Goodman, RM, Wandersman, A, Valois, R, Chinman, M. The Plan Quality Index: An empowerment research, consultation and feedback tool. In Fetterman D, Kafterian S, Wandersman A (Eds.)Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability, Sage Publications, 1995: 304-331.
  2. Wandersman,A., Goodman, RM, Butterfoss, FD. Understanding coalitions and how they operate: An "Open Systems" framework. In M. Minkler (Ed.) Community Organizing and Community Building for Health, Rutgers University Press, 1997.
  3. Butterfoss, FD, Wandersman, A, Goodman, RM. Citizen Participation and Health: Toward a Psychology of Improving Health through Individual, Organizational and Community Involvement. In Baum, A., Revenson, T., Singer, J. (Eds.) Handbook of Health Psychology, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2001:613-626.

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