TQ Billups-Davis, PhD, MA, CHES®

Dr. Taquina Davis comes to Health E Strategies with over 15+ years of experience demonstrating the ability to partner with multiple sectors effectively, including managing and assisting with advocacy, health and racial equity, community engagement, and health care delivery. She has the desire and experience to work for and with organizations that help strengthen and implement strategies designed to achieve health equity. Her expertise includes program development, management, community health, population health, complementary and alternative health, chronic disease prevention, and wellness.    

As a leader in community health, she works in and with communities to substantially impact and improve community health outcomes. Her previous responsibility included developing, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining comprehensive, evidence-based chronic disease prevention and wellness programs for community members who are underserved and uninsured. She has also led local coalitions by overseeing plans and logic models' development and design and cultivating resources with new partners to support community health and health equity priorities. 

Dr. Davis also serves as an advisor on related projects and initiatives on various local community coalitions, boards, and advocacy committees, assisting with advancing state and local public health practice interventions to help achieve health equity. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor in the School of Health Sciences Department for Purdue University Global.  Taquina has her MA in Health & Wellness with a concentration in alternative medicine and her Ph.D. in Health Education and Promotion

Taiwanna Billups is a high-performing Healthcare Leader with 20+ years of experience within the private and government healthcare sector and currently seeking a PhD in Population Health Sciences – Applied Health Economics and Outcomes Research.  In her previous roles, she consistently and successfully managed and executed complex, cross-functional initiatives and teams as well as provided advisory services to public health, provider and payor organizations such as Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota.

Taiwanna comes to Health E Strategies from Anthem, Inc.  As Staff Vice President, she was responsible for leading data quality operations, reporting, effectiveness and solution strategy for Anthem’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) Risk Management programs and data and analytic products related to consumer-centricity (i.e. consumer transparency), provider quality designations and network optimization as well as drafting program policy changes and alignment of Anthem’s data strategy and acquisition with governing bodies.
 

Taiwanna received a B.S. in Mathematics from Wofford College, an MBA/MHA from Georgia State University and is a certified PMP.