Nhial Tutlam, PhD

Dr.  Tutlam earned his Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Tennessee State University and both his Master of Public Health (MPH) and PhD degrees from Saint Louis University. He is the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Program manager in the Division of Health Promotion and Public Health Research at Saint Louis County Department of Public Health (DPH), where he oversees chronic diseases and mental health surveillance. Dr. Tutlam is also the Project Director for Project RESTORE, a four-year, $1.7 million minority youth violence prevention project funded by the Office of Minority Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, Dr. Tutlam is an adjunct instructor of epidemiology at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and teaches a chronic disease prevention course at Lindenwood University. His research interest include chronic diseases, maternal and child health and intergenerational impact of war trauma of South Sudanese.

Dr. Tutlam worked with his mentor, Dr. Theresa Betancourt, as part of the Youth Forward U19 NIMH grant in Sierra Leone. He is co-authoring the paper “Applying the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) Framework to Testing Strategies for Scaling Evidence-Based Mental Health Interventions in Fragile and Low-Resource Settings: An Example from Sierra Leone.”  He has taken on the leadership on data analyses and writing results.

Email:  nhtutlam@gmail.com