Michael Goodman, MDiv, MPH, DrPH, has dedicated over 15 years to working in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on applied social epidemiology. Since 2012, Dr. Goodman has concentrated on fostering and measuring community-driven development, initially to support the reintegration of street-living children in Kenya and subsequently to address a range of biopsychosocial outcomes impacted by social disorganization. Oriented towards complex and multilevel modeling, with related intervention development and evaluation, Dr. Goodman has lead-authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications culminating in the development of the "Flourishing Community Model" (FCM). The FCM provides a stepwise process of nurturing community leadership, prosocial behaviors, and sustainable improvements across economic, social, psychological, behavioral, and clinical outcomes. The FCM informs the first peer-reviewed, proven-effective approach to reintegrating street-involved children and youth in any low- or middle-income country, enabling the reintegration of over 500 formerly street-dwelling children and youth, and community-driven systems transformation with over 12,000 families in 44 villages in Kenya. Dr. Goodman is actively involved in NIH-funded research to adapt the FCM for families living with HIV, with an expanding focus on quantifying its effectiveness in parenting, mental health, HIV prevention, and climate change adaptation. To enable a more robust systems science, integrating community leadership with institutional support, Dr. Goodman is currently working to develop and validate a new measurement of community self-governing processes informed by the work of Elinor Ostrom on the Core Design Principles. 

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