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Dr. Raines Milenkov’s expertise is in maternal and child health. Her academic background is in the area of social work and public health. Her community-based research and interventions focus on pregnancy, birth and maternal health outcomes and women’s preventive health among vulnerable populations including refugee women, prostituting women, and women with previous adverse birth outcomes.
She is Director of the UNT Health Science Center’s Healthy Start program a federally funded intervention to reduce perinatal health disparities. She is an appointed member of the Texas Department of State Health Services Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force and holds the contract from the state to provide maternal death redaction and abstraction case preparation for review by Task Force Members. She is the current Chair of the Early Childhood Wellness Council of Tarrant County MHMR, and immediate Past Chair of the Infant Health Network. Dr. Raines-Milenkov leads the Building Bridges Initiative, a community-based project funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas that provides culturally and linguistically appropriate lay health educator outreach, education and woman-centered cancer screening services to refugee communities.
Her current work builds upon years of front-line public health practice, strong professional and community partnerships and a great passion to identify and address gaps in knowledge and implement interventions for vulnerable populations of women, children and their families.
She is Director of the UNT Health Science Center’s Healthy Start program a federally funded intervention to reduce perinatal health disparities. She is an appointed member of the Texas Department of State Health Services Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force and holds the contract from the state to provide maternal death redaction and abstraction case preparation for review by Task Force Members. She is the current Chair of the Early Childhood Wellness Council of Tarrant County MHMR, and immediate Past Chair of the Infant Health Network. Dr. Raines-Milenkov leads the Building Bridges Initiative, a community-based project funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas that provides culturally and linguistically appropriate lay health educator outreach, education and woman-centered cancer screening services to refugee communities.
Her current work builds upon years of front-line public health practice, strong professional and community partnerships and a great passion to identify and address gaps in knowledge and implement interventions for vulnerable populations of women, children and their families.
Education/Academic qualification
MPH in Community Health, UNT Health Science Center
DPH in Social & Behavioral Sciences, UNT Health Science Center
BSW, University of Texas at Austin
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Healthy Start Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health
Raines-Milenkov, A. & Felini, M.
Health Resources & Service Administratio
1/04/19 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
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Texas Minority Health, Education, Research, and Outreach (Texas MiHERO)
Vishwanatha, J., Knebl, J., Raines-Milenkov, A., Cunningham, T., He, J., Spence-Almaguer, E., Clay, P. & Basha, R.
NIMHD: Natl Institute on Minority Health
14/09/17 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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Infant Mortality COINN-Social Determinants of Health
Assoc of Maternal and Child Health Prgms
1/01/18 → 29/09/20
Project: Research
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Research output
- 7 Citations
- 2 h-Index
- 5 Article
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Hepatitis B Virus Awareness, Infection, and Screening Multiethnic Community Intervention for Foreign-Born Populations
Raines-Milenkov, A., Felini, M., Baker, E., Acharya, R., Longanga Diese, E., Akpan, I., Hussain, A. & Wagner, T., Oct 2021, In: Journal of Community Health. 46, 5, p. 967-974 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
Willingness of a Multiethnic Immigrant Population to Donate Biospecimens for Research Purposes
Raines-Milenkov, A., Felini, M., Baker, E., Acharya, R., Diese, E. L., Onsa, S., Iang, H., Abdi, A., Akpan, I., Hussain, A., Wagner, T. & Hughes, J., Jun 2022, In: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 24, 3, p. 705-712 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Postpartum Education and Health Literacy: New Moms’ Perspectives
Wagner, T., Thompson, E. L., Gadson, A., Stark, M., Bush, K. & Raines-Milenkov, A., 2020, In: Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 24, 4, p. 346-359 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Uptake of cancer screenings among a multiethnic refugee population in North Texas, 2014-2018
Milenkov, A. R., Felini, M., Baker, E., Acharya, R., Diese, E. L., Onsa, S., Fernando, S. & Chor, H., 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 15, 3, e0230675.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Scopus citations -
What About Mom? Health Literacy and Maternal Mortality
Wagner, T., Stark, M. & Raines Milenkov, A., 2 Jan 2020, In: Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 24, 1, p. 50-61 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations