Vine M. Samuels, MPH, CEO

Vine M. Samuels, MPH, CEO, the visionary and founder of Health Education, Resource Management and Training (HER, LLC), assists municipal, state, and federal governments, universities, and community-based organizations with innovative resolutions to deliver effective public health policies, practices, programs, and services to communities with deficient equitable access to healthcare and public health resources that lead to health equity.

In 1980, Vine received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the State of New York, College at New Paltz, New York. In 2000, she received her Master’s Degree in Public Health from Southern Connecticut State University. In addition, she received a Certificate from the University of Connecticut (UCONN), School of Business, Executive Education Programs for Public Health Professionals in 2007. Vine is a member of the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., and the Sierra Club for environmental justice.
 

Ms. Samuels has extensive state, federal, regional, and municipal public health administration experience spanning over 35 years. Coupled with a business management background, grant writing experience, her formal education in political science and public health this business has become her life’s conviction. Vine was exposed to grant writing during her teen years, looking over her mother’s shoulder. 

Vine incorporated HER, LLC in February 2001, as a minority, woman-owned small business in the State of Connecticut. HER, LLC is a unique core management system and think-tank that works directly with communities to motivate them to develop lawful forcible systems to maintain new health equity strategies that are accountable and sustainable. Due to the rapid changes in public health, political, financial, and social markets. In 2001, Vine predicted a paradigm shift in public health response to health disparities. HER, LLC has evolved over the 20 years to meet this necessity.