PPC Graduate Student Appointed to Fellowship Program

Name: DeAnn E. Hughes

DeAnn accepted a position with the Epilepsy Foundation of America (EFA) as Director of Government Programs in Washington, D.C. on 7/2003

DeAnn Hughes, M.P.A. was the Project Manager for the Community Services Implementation Project (C-SIP or CSI). Ms. Hughes received a B.S. in Social Work from Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS) in 1970. She received a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 1987.

Prior to starting with the Public Policy Center, she worked as a private consultant assisting organizations at the state and local levels in grant writing, funding source development and committee work. She also served as Coordinator of Special Projects at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in the Department of Pediatrics. UNMC projects she administered included the Rural Partnership for Children Project, a pediatric consultation project working with families of children with special health care needs, family physicians, and communities in four rural counties in the Nebraska Panhandle; and, the Child Health Clinics Project, a community collaborative project involving the Charles Drew Health Center, Creighton University, Douglas County Health Department and the Indian-Chicano Health Center. Ms. Hughes also worked as a Grants Administrator in the Nebraska Department of Health for the Maternal and Child Health and the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Programs and the Governor's Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities.