Charlene Collier, MD, MPH, MHS

Dr. Charlene Collier is a native of New Jersey that completed undergraduate and medical school at Brown University in Rhode Island. Passionate about improving maternal health, she obtained a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health before completing residency at Yale. Dr. Collier completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale after residency where she earned a Master of Health Science. She currently holds a joint position with UMMC and the State Department of Health where she leads initiatives to improve maternal and infant health. Dr. Collier sits on the Committee for Obstetrics Practice for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is an Executive Committee Member of the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives and a Board Member for the National Institute for Children's Health Quality. She is married to Mississippi native, Gerald and is mother to two boys.