Sarah Swanson, MPH

Program Director, Munroe-Meyer Institute, Family Care Enhancement Project
Assistant Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute UCEDD

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Sarah Swanson, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the Munroe-Meyer Institute. She also is the program director for MMI’s Family Care Enhancement Project, which places Parent Resource Coordinators in medical clinics across the state. The Family Care Enhancement Project, funded in part by Nebraska's UCEDD, is located at UNMC's Munroe-Meyer Institute.

Swanson is the primary investigator over many projects that offer services and supports to children with disabilities and special health care needs and their families. She also serves on many state leadership teams and advisories to improve access and promote activities that benefit children with disabilities and their families.

Swanson currently serves on the Arch National Respite Research workgroup, the leadership team to the state’s Title V program, and has chaired the Title V Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs workgroup for the last two cycles. She is a member of the advisory committee to Title V’s Pediatric Mental Health Access grant and Children’s Hospital’s Help Me Grow state leadership team. She is currently serving as a national consultant for the Association of University Centers for Disabilities on the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ rule defining home and community-based settings.