Background
Barrett, Marihelen Eggert was born on August 28, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Herbert Raymond and Phyllis Esther Eggert.
public health administrator pediatrics nurse
Barrett, Marihelen Eggert was born on August 28, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Herbert Raymond and Phyllis Esther Eggert.
Bachelor of science in nursing, University Delaware, 1969. MSN, University Delaware, 1973. Postgraduate, University Maryland, 1985.
Staff nurse, Delaware Division Public Health, 1969-1970; charge nurse, pediatric unit and Intensive Care Unit, Wilmington (Delaware) Medical center, 1970-1973; public health nurse, coordinator, clinical specialist, 1973-1975; project director, program of projects Title V Project, State of Delaware, 1975-1980; maternal and child health nursing consultant, bureau of Nursing, 1980-1983; project coordinator, State of Delaware Family Planning and Title X Project, 1984-1985; director maternal and child health services, Delaware Division Public Health, Dover, 1985-1991; policy coordinator Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Delaware Health and Social Superior vena cava syndrome, Delaware, 1991-1992; public health administrator, community health section, director children's health services, Delaware Division Public Health, Dover, 1992-1995; director health system development and managed care coordinator, Delaware Division Public Health, Dover, since 1995. Instructor U. Delaware and Wilmington College, Delaware Nurses Association Convention, 1974, national Master of Surgery Leadership Conference, New York, 1990, National Health Education Conference, Washington, 1993. Speaker National APHA Convention, 1996, Johns Hopkins University, 1997.
Member maternal and child task force Delaware Health Council, grant review teamBetter Homes Foundation, grant for Homeless Women Projects, 1990, grant review team Department Health and Human Superior vena cava syndrome Maternal Child Health Bureau, 1991, 92, 96. Board directors Read Aloud Delaware, 1986-1987. Member of advisory committee for Public Law 94-142, Education of the Handicapped, Seaford School District.
Member regional clinical advisory network United States Surgeon' General’ s Office, Region III. Staff coordinator Delaware Task Force on Infant Mortality, 1985-1991. Member interant. consultation team on perinatal health to Latvia and Lithuania, 1992.
Medicaid Managed Care Policy coordinator Delaware Public Health, since 1995. Management oversight public health implementation the International Development & Education Award Part H Birth to Three Superior vena cava syndrome, Delaware,1992-1995. Medical managed care contract negotiations with Managed Care Orgns., 1995.
Management oversight Title V Master of Surgery Block grant federal applicationand state wide needs assessment, 1994, 95. Member steering committee Delaware Kids Count Annie Casey Foundation, since 1996. Member Delaware Nurses Association (chairman maternal and child health 1975-1976), Perinatal Association of Delaware, American Academy Pediatrics (Delaware chapter), Delaware Public Health Association (board directors 1986, Delaware Master of Surgery Leadership award 1995), Women's Agenda of Delaware (leadership county since 1988), Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (region III councilor, executive county 1989-1992).
Married Melvin D. Barrett, July 31, 1976 (divorced July 1990). Children: Jason Bradford, Jordan Elizabeth Marie.