Dr. Johnnye Lewis directs several environmental and public health programs at the University of New Mexico. In the College of Pharmacy, she is Director of the Community Environmental Health Program, the group that develops and maintains Healthy Voices projects and the website. She brings her background in laboratory science in pharmacology and toxicology together with a commitment to working with communities to ensure that science is translated into action to prevent disease, improve clinical care and develop informed policy.
     She also runs the Clinical and Translational Science Center's Novel Methodologies component, which is focused on developing new approaches to get science out of the lab and into public use to protect people's health. Dr. Lewis's work as Director of Community Outreach and Education for the New Mexico Center for Environmental Health Science has led her to strive to improve communication among scientists, policy-makers, communities, and health care providers.
    She conducts research with community partners such as the Navajo and the Cheyenne River Sioux. In these programs, she works with communities to help develop research protocols to collect, analyze, and interpret data to address concerns about environmental exposures and to ensure that results are conveyed not only to other researchers, but also to decision-makers in government, health care centers and communities to inform actions and policies that improve public health.