About
Evidence You Can Use. Impact You Can Show.
Amplify Community Health brings expert evaluation and strategy support to community-facing organizations, so they can strengthen their programs and demonstrate their impact.
Why Amplify Exists
Community health organizations deserve evaluation and strategy support from people who understand their work firsthand. Amplify Community Health was founded to offer practical, evidence-based evaluation and strategy support at a scale and price that work for public hospitals, health departments, and local nonprofits.
Amplify Community Health LLC is also committed to developing the next generation of public health professionals. By bringing on bilingual and early-career practitioners who reflect the communities they serve, and pairing them with an experienced mentor, Amplify creates the hands-on learning opportunities that are increasingly hard to find. Every engagement advances both the client's mission and the growth of the professionals doing the work.
Better Health for Every Community
Our work centers on closing gaps in health and access for underserved populations.
Evidence-Based Practice
Every project uses research-quality methods, so clients receive findings they can trust and share with confidence.
Accessible Expertise
High-quality assistance shouldn't be reserved for organizations with big budgets. We scope and price our work for community organizations of every size.
Mentorship & Opportunity
We invest in the next generation of public health professionals, offering bilingual and early-career practitioners hands-on experience and mentorship.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Dr. Erin Carlson
DrPH, MPH, CHWI, FNAP
Owner & President, Amplify Community Health LLC
Clinical Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Erin Carlson founded Amplify Community Health to help community organizations, health departments, and academic institutions design, evaluate, and strengthen health-related programs that reach underserved populations. She specializes in mixed-methods and qualitative program evaluation, including designing surveys, interview guides, and other data collection tools, as well as community-based disease screening program evaluation. Dr. Carlson also develops public health curricula and delivers trainings, workshops, and lectures on selected public health and health communication topics, building practical skills for public health professionals, community health teams, and students. Clients working with Dr. Carlson have a partner who has built programs from the ground up and knows how to measure whether they are working. Over her career, Dr. Carlson has led and evaluated initiatives funded by the CDC, HRSA, National Science Foundation, and Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas. She has consulted for the CDC and international nongovernmental organizations on infectious disease projects, worked as a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá, Colombia, and served as a trusted COVID-19 expert for Dallas news media from 2020 to 2022. She is a Distinguished Fellow of Public Health in the National Academies of Practice, a certified Community Health Worker Instructor, and has years of experience in board leadership roles for non-profit health organizations. Her work is driven by a longstanding commitment to expanding access to health services and improving community health.
Ready to work together?
Whether you need a full program evaluation or targeted strategic support, we'd love to learn about your work.
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