Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
Nikki Simpson, MS, currently serves as a BUSSW MSW Field Instructor at Boston University School of Social Work, supervising first-year MSW students in the Practice Policy Initiative Program. In addition to this role, Nikki holds the position of Director of Community Health Initiatives at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, where responsibilities include designing and managing the CHC-focused CHW Initiative aimed at enhancing community outreach and patient engagement. Previous roles include Senior Manager of Primary Care Workforce Development and Senior Manager for the Mass League/Suffolk University Certificate Program in Community Health, along with extensive experience at the Boston Public Health Commission, where Nikki managed training programs and operations for the Community Health Education Center. Nikki's educational background includes a Master's degree in Business Management in Human Service from Springfield College and training from the Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership at Tufts University.
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (League) is a non-profit, statewide association representing and serving the needs of the state's 52 community health center organizations, which serve more than 1,000,000 state residents through over 300 sites. The League serves as an information source on community-based health care to policymakers, opinion leaders and the media and provides a wide range of technical assistance to its members and communities, including: analysis of state and federal health regulatory and policy issues affecting health centers; training and education for health center administrators, clinicians and board members; promotion and management of clinical quality initiatives across the health center network; workforce development programs to increase recruitment of primary care physicians and to provide career training for health center employees and local residents seeking entry-level positions at health centers; information technology development primarily focused on helping health centers upgrade their information technology systems and capacity for using data; and general support to expand health access through work with local health and advocacy organizations seeking to open health centers in their communities.