Ivan Juzang, MBA
Ivan Juzang, MBA, Founder and President of MEE Productions Inc., is a leading expert in health communications and social marketing. He has over 25 years of first-hand experience working on health disparities and public health issues affecting low income, underserved and devalued communities across America. Mr. Juzang’s work focuses on how service providers, community-based organizations and the public health community can present trauma-informed and culturally relevant health information (including primary prevention) in such a way that lifestyle changes are sustainable in the context of an economically challenged and stressed-out life.
MEE specializes in community-centered approaches that acknowledge the social determinants of health, honor personal assets and resiliency, infuse protective factors and embrace trauma-informed strategies. MEE has been engaged in substance use prevention work since 1991 in low-income urban communities across the country. Its specific opioid misuse work has been conducted in urban, suburban, and rural communities over the last five years, in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans, with Prevention Coalitions across Ohio and statewide agencies in Louisiana.
Ivan Juzang has been the primary researcher on MEE’s national research projects, including MEE’s first national report, The MEE Report: Reaching the Hip-Hop Generation (1992), L-Evated: The Blunt Truth (1995) and Moving Beyond Survival Mode: Promoting Mental Wellness and Resiliency as a Way to Cope with Urban Trauma (2009).
MEE’s most recent substance abuse research, the foundation for MEE’s unique “By and For” approach, is highlighted in Tackling America’s Opioid Epidemic From the Ground Up (2015), which explores culturally-specific, community-inclusive responses to the nation’s opioid epidemic and includes valuable community mobilization strategies.
Mr. Juzang was a member of the Advisory Committee on Public Issues for The Ad Council, and a current board member of Power to Decide (formerly the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy). From 2003-2009, Mr. Juzang was a member of The Office of National Drug Control and Policy’s Behavior Change Expert Panel. Mr. Juzang received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.