Carla Durham Walker, M.A.
Instructor & Director of Undergraduate Medical Education
Community Health & Preventive Medicine
The Writing Resource Center
Location: National Center for Primary Care 337
Phone: (404)752-1852
E-mail: cdurham@msm.edu
Education
GRADUATE:Georgia State University
Degree: MA in English, Rhetoric & Composition/Technical Writing
UNDERGRADUATE:
Wesleyan College
Degree: BA in English
Research Interests
Medical education, community-engaged community health education, and academic writing.Clinical Interests
Carla Durham Walker is an Instructor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive
Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is an MD1, MD2, and MD3 Learning Community
faculty leader and a new Institutional Member of the Learning Community Institute.
In addition to her learning community activities, Ms. Durham Walker is the Associate
Director of a service-learning course for first-year medical students and the Associate
Director of The Writing Resource Center, Morehouse School of Medicine’s first institution-wide
writing center.
Her specific areas of interest include training community-oriented health professionals committed to eliminating health disparities through collaborative, bidirectional partnerships with community organizations and developing students' academic writing capabilities. She is also passionate about creating safe and productive learning environments, helping students improve their writing, and advancing medical educational research at her institution.
Publications
- Walker, C. D., Crump, S. R., Rivers, D., Hutchins, S.S., Tables, L. A., Black, G., Oliver, W., & Ukadike, C. (2024) “Community-Oriented Healthcare Providers”. Community-Centered Public Health Strategies, Tools, and Applications for Advancing Health Equity (edited by Tabia Henry Akintobi & Stephanie Miles-Richardson). Springer Publishing Company. pp. 157- 176.
- Walker, C. D., McCray, G. G., Wimes, A., Levine, D., & Rivers, D. (2023). Peer Reviewed: Training Medical Students to Recognize, Understand, and Mitigate the Impact of Racism in a Service-Learning Course. Preventing Chronic Disease, 20.
- Saraiya, P., Hutchins, S. S., Crump, S., Morgan, J., Wilkinson, T., Walker, C. D., & Taylor, B. (2021). Availability of naloxone in 2 underserved urban communities in Georgia. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 27(1), S179-S185.
- Rivers, D., Durham Walker, C., Kennedy Mitchell, A., Lawrence, S., Bayer, C. (2020). Improving the Public’s Health Through Sustained, Multidisciplinary Academic and Community Partnerships: The MSM Model. Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 8(1), Article 15. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/jgpha/vol8/iss1/15/
Audio-Visual Materials Abstracts
- Thomas, R., Taylor, B. D., Desiree, R., Carla, D.-W. (2019). P10 Student-led Community Engagement and Service-Learning Projects in underserved communities. Proceedings of Advancing the Science of Community Engaged Research (CEnR): Innovative and Effective Methods of Stakeholder Engagement in Translational Research (vol. 13 (Suppl 2)). BioMedical Central. https://www.vumc.org/meharry-vanderbilt/advancing-science-community-engaged-research- conference