Akilah Thomas - Research Associate
Project Director
Georgia Building Strong Families Program
404-413-0280 Office
404-413-0318 Fax
MPH, Emory University
BA, Clark Atlanta University
Akilah Ferrell has been involved with the Building Strong Families Program since April 2004. She completed her Master of Public Health at Emory University in December 2000 and her Bachelors in Sociology at Clark Atlanta University in May 1999.
Akilah initially began work with the Building Strong Families program by assisting in the planning stages. The purpose of this work was assuring that the chosen curriculums were adaptable to the communities that Building Strong Families planned to serve. Akilah also assisted with the development of the Building Strong Families supplemental curriculum. Currently, Akilah is the Project Director for the Georgia Building Strong Families program which is operated out of Georgia State University’s Health Policy Center.
Prior to joining Building Strong Families, Akilah worked for ten years within Emory University’s School of Medicine and School of Public Health. For three of those years (2002 – 2005) she was the Senior Project Coordinator for the Centering Pregnancy Program and spent the remainder of her time at Emory working on various projects researching HIV/AIDS.