Amy Berner, MA

Amy is a multidisciplinary professional with 20 years of experience in project coordination, grant management, and communications. She works to build and maintain all-important relationships among the nonprofit, education, and healthcare industries.

Senior Program Coordinator

Organization:

West Virginia University Health Sciences Center

Department:

Health Affairs Institute

Classification:

Staff

• MA, Communication Studies, Marshall University
• BA, Communication Arts, Concord University

In her role with Health Affairs Institute, Amy serves as senior program coordinator for the Direct Care Workforce Capacity (DCWC) training project and the evaluation of the substance use disorder (SUD) 1115 Medicaid waiver. She works with sub-awardees and subject-matter experts along with members of the West Virginia Department of Health (DoH) and Department of Human Services (DoHS) and Health Affairs Institute teams to manage schedules and meetings, log project resources, schedule interviews and focus groups, and gather any information critical to project implementation and completion. An organized and strategic thinker with strengths in public speaking, writing and editing, and event management, Amy has a proven ability to meet and exceed objectives that positively impact both the organizations and the communities at hand.

Prior to joining the team at the Office of Health affairs, Amy served in various leadership roles that honed her expertise in health-related topics and relationship building. At WVU, she was a grant manager for the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) grant at WVU Health Research Center, and, at ICF (a Health Affairs Institute sub-awardee), she was a children’s services study coordinator, working on both the System of Care (SOC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) evaluations. She served as a program manager for the City of Huntington, WV, on a Bloomberg Mayors Challenge grant to study the effects of compassion fatigue in first responders as a result of the opioid epidemic. In a position with the WV Department of Education, Amy coordinated the statewide Summer Meals program. She served as an instructor of speech communications at Southern West Virginia Community & Technical College and as a grassroots legislative lobbyist and marketing/communications director for the American Cancer Society.