Brandie Buckless, M.P.H.
Senior Research Associate
Brandie Buckless has nearly 15 years of experience in public health, community-based participatory research, evaluation design, and technical assistance in partnership with American Indian communities, organizations, and programs. Her work focuses on building data use capacity in tribal communities and designing community-engaged evaluations. She is Bitterroot Salish from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation in Montana.
Buckless currently serves as the Data Technical Assistance Specialist and Workstream Lead for the Tribal Home Visiting Resource Institute for Excellence, through which she supports Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting grantees with performance measurement planning, reporting, data system improvement, and strategic use of data for program decision making and sustainability. She also provides technical assistance for continuous quality improvement.
Her previous work includes partnering with tribes to implement and evaluate public health interventions across a range of topics including maternal and child health, oral health, substance use prevention, and cancer control. Buckless has worked with tribal and urban Indian health programs, Indian Health Service, and community organizations to facilitate strategic planning, develop evaluation frameworks, and provide capacity-building support.
Buckless received an M.P.H. in community health promotion from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.