Bio -Tammy L. Henderson, Ph.D., VP Office of Strategic Initiatives & Innovation, Professor, Family & Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN Dr. Tammy L. Henderson is the Vice President of the Office of Strategic Initiative and Innovation (OSII) and a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She completed her doctoral studies in Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University, focusing on family policy and law. Tammy Henderson earned her other degrees from Louisiana State University. Henderson has held faculty positions at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (B, Oklahoma State University, and Lamar University. She was the 2021 Conference Program Chair of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) and serves as an Associate Editor of Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science. See Associate Editor's Advice. The conference theme, The Science of Families: Nurturing Hope, Happiness, and Health, was grounded by four recognized Black women scholars to dismantle economic, historical, political, and social justice concerns that undermine children, youth, families, and communities from manifesting hope, happiness, and health. The intellectual dialog and activism continued in a special issue in Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science. Dr. Henderson served as a 2024 National Cancer Institute Ideation Minilabs discussion guide, has two formal mentoring groups – Innovative Women of Excellence and Black Men of Honor, and was selected as the recipient of the 2020 Felix Berardo Scholarship Award for Mentoring. Henderson conducts socio-behavioral translational research in family and health policy, family law, disasters, and diversity and evidence-based leadership, mentoring, and professional development projects, such as TRANSFORM. A few of her research projects are (a) Older Adults and Disasters, (b) the U. S. Public Service Untreated Syphilis of Black Men, (c) Diverse Female Experiences, and (d) Alaska Native Grandparents Rearing Grandchildren. She has worked on several program development and evaluation projects: (1) childcare needs in Montgomery County; (2) kinship care issues in the state of Virginia; (3) accreditation consultation needed for the National Association for the Education of Young Children; (4) homelessness and neighborhood redevelopment in Baton Rouge; and (5) improving the capacity of HBCUs to address health disparities. She consults on selective child welfare, grandparent rights and responsibilities, accreditation, promotion and tenure, professional development, faculty development, leadership, and disaster planning approaches for small businesses and organizations. Mentoring, coaching, and engaging in community service are at the heart of her other contributions to advance individual and family development. She conducts sessions and conferences on shared governance, professional service, and editorial contributions seasoned with equity, justice, compassion, and the art of happiness or positive genius. With new grants being drafted and submitted, Dr. Henderson has managed $1,642,153 in grants and contracts, reviewed grant proposals for the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and has had NSF sponsor disaster presentations in Uganda. Her other funded work revolves around producing evidence- based workshops, webinars, and other programs for socio-behavioral professionals, nurses, physicians, counselors, nursing home administrators, and others, such as the Gerontology and Geriatrics conferences.