Biography

Dr. Stacey E. Little currently serves as the Vice President of Women’s and Infants Services and Community and Population Health at the University of Maryland Capital Region Health (UMCRH). Prior to joining the UMCRH, she was the Interim Maternal and Child Health Bureau Chief and the Director for the Office of Family and Community Health Services at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Prevention and Health Promotion Administration where she led programs that focused on improving the health of women, men, infants, children and families in Maryland.

Dr. Little has an extensive career in Women’s and Community Health and HIV and STD prevention domestically and globally. She served as the Director of the Center on AIDS and Community Health at FHI 360.  At FHI360 she served as a Principal Investigator (PI) for the Robert Wood Johnson Quality Assessment Research and Evaluation Project, Project Director of a CDC funded Capacity Building Assistance Cooperative Agreement supporting services to health departments and CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, and the Partnership Director for the NIH HIV Vaccine Research Education Initiative.  Dr. Little was the AED Deputy Director for the Center on AIDS and Community Health from. There she served as PI or Co-PI on a multitude of research and evaluation projects such as the NIH-funded “Be the Generation Project”, “Prudential Foundation New Jersey Health Project”, and “Ford Foundation funded HIV Anti-Stigma Project”.

Dr. Little holds a Doctorate degree in Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master's degree in Social Work from Howard University, and a Master of Public Health degree, with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health, from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Little also holds a dual Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Health Administration and Social Work. Dr. Little was a MCHB doctoral fellow and while at the University of Pittsburgh, she served two terms as a commissioned corps officer student intern (Co-Step) in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.