Kimberly M. Alexander-Bratcher, MPH

Project Director

Kimberly Alexander-Bratcher is a Project Director at the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM), where she coordinates projects focused on behavorial health services for the military and their families, access to healthcare, and healthcare quality. Through the Safety Net Advisory Council, she serves as the NCIOM reviewer for the community health grants for the Office of Rural Health and Community Care and contact person for the safety net resource NCHealthcareHelp.org. She writes the Spotlight on the Safety Net series for the North Carolina Medical Journal and will translate selected products into Spanish. Her prior work at the NCIOM involved coordinating the project focused on awareness and prevention of chronic kidney disease and helping to staff Task Forces examining adolescent health, the impact of low health literacy on access to healthcare, the predicted shortage of healthcare professionals in primary care and certain specialty areas, and the ethical guidelines that the Division of Public Health should use to make decisions during the emergence of a pandemic influenza.

Prior to her work at the NCIOM, Ms. Alexander-Bratcher served as Executive Director of Pitt County Care, Inc., an organization that operates volunteer-run free medical clinics with a focus on migrant workers and their families. She earned a Master in Public Health degree from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in 2006 and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, a minor in Chemistry, and a Certificate of Spanish for Business from Wake Forest University in 2000.