Staff

DiLenny Roca-Dominguez, MPH, MS, CPST -  Managing Director

Ms. Roca-Dominguez brings to the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP) a wealth of expertise in grants and program management. For over 20 years, she has worked in various capacities at the National Program Office of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids (Injury Free) and is passionate about promoting and improving community health and outcomes through research and involvement of community stakeholders. In addition to managing Injury Free, as a Senior Administrator for the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Ms. Roca-Dominguez provides grant and financial management to multiple Principal Investigators working on research in injury epidemiology and social epidemiology. Her experience is built around the effective management of a wide range of projects/programs focused on eliminating disparities in vulnerable populations locally and nationally. In addition, she has the privilege to deliver community-based injury prevention education in the Washington Heights and Inwood communities of Northern Manhattan with support and assistance from the Pediatric Trauma team at New York Presbyterian - Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. She works closely with community-based organizations and residents to provide injury prevention education for some of the most prevalent injuries in the area including car passenger safety, pedestrian safety, fall prevention and home safety. She offers life-saving skills training for the community as a certified Stop the Bleed and Hands-Only CPR facilitator.

Ms. Roca-Dominguez earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Columbia University in the City of New York.   She has a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the Mailman School of Public Health, a Certificate of Non for Profit Administration from the Columbia University School of Business, and a Master of Science in Community Health Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Gerald Govia 

Gerald is the Cluster Unit Coordinator in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health. In his role as the unit coordinator, Mr. Govia works closely with the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP) to oversee the scheduling of monthly injury and violence seminars. He works with invited speakers and department staff to coordinate all aspects of their visit and to see that speaker information is disseminated to potential seminar attendees. In addition to managing the injury unit seminars, Mr. Govia also manages the Epi Department’s department-wide events and he is also the Coordinator for the Department of Epidemiology’s episummer@columbia summer program. He has been with the department for 10 years.