Dr. Taquina Davis comes to McLane Health Solutions with over ten years of experience demonstrating the ability to partner with multiple sectors effectively, including managing and assisting with advocacy, health and racial equity, community engagement, and health care delivery. She has the desire and experience to work for and with organizations that help strengthen and implement strategies designed to achieve health equity. Her experience includes program development, management, community health, population health, complementary and alternative health, chronic disease prevention, and wellness. 

As a leader in the community health field, she works in and with communities to substantially impact and improve community health outcomes in her home state of South Carolina. In communities, she works to develop, implement, evaluate, and maintain comprehensive, evidence-based chronic disease prevention and wellness programs for community members who are underserved and uninsured. In addition, she has the opportunity to work closely with clinicians and community-based organizations to provide optimal care to patients and community members. 

As the current chair for a local coalition, she oversees the development and design of plans, logic models and cultivates resources with new partners to support community health and health equity priorities.  She serves as an advisor on related projects and initiatives on various local community coalitions, boards, and advocacy committees. She assists with advancing state and local public health practice interventions to help achieve health equity.  As the Senior Advisor at McLane Health Solutions, she will work directly with our customers to design programs for their unique populations as well as offer technical assistance on evaluation and outreach.

Taquina has her MA in Health & Wellness with a concentration in alternative medicine and her PH.D. in Health Education and Promotions. She enjoys spending time with her family, Markcus (Husband), Israel (Son) and Junia (Daughter).