Dana Fields-Johnson

Dana Fields-Johnson, MPA is a Program Manager at the Prevention Institute, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing primary prevention, with a focus on promoting safe, healthy and equitable communities. At Prevention Institute, Dana promotes healthy community environments, focusing on community determinants of health and strategies to foster community resilience and prevent injury and trauma. She is a public health advocate with a strong passion for engaging and empowering community members as their own best advocates and change agents.  Dana has more than 25 years of professional experience and has worked across the public health arena to address maternal and child well-being, chronic disease prevention, community safety, and healthy eating and active living with an emphasis on policy, systems and environmental change.

Prior to joining Prevention Institute, Dana was Director of Programs for the Health Education Council in West Sacramento, California, where she provided oversight to the agency’s regional prevention programs to eliminate preventable causes of death and disease for low-income families.  In that role, she also coordinated the HEAL Collaborative, a coalition of more than 200 organizations improving the nutrition and physical activity environments for disadvantaged communities in the 15 counties comprising California’s Delta and Gold Country Region.  From 2004-2009, Dana worked as the Director of Healthy Jacksonville for the Duval County Health Department, where she successfully led efforts to secure a five-year Healthy Jacksonville, Healthy Kids partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In that role, she also co-authored Jacksonville’s first city-wide Childhood Obesity Prevention Plan.  Through all her professional experiences, she has worked extensively alongside residents and community based organizations to improve health and advance health equity for all people.