Charmaine Ruddock – Bio

Charmaine Ruddock, MS, serves as Project Director of the Bronx Health REACH/NY CEED, The Institute for Family Health. Ms. Ruddock joined the Institute for Family Health in 2000 to direct Bronx Health REACH, a coalition of 70 community and faith-based organizations, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address racial and ethnic health disparities. As Project Director for Bronx Health REACH, Ms. Ruddock’s key responsibilities include developing a community coalition, linking health care providers, community leaders, community based organizations, social service agencies, government entities, local small businesses to a joint community approach; addressing socio-medical determinants of health disparity.