Public health consulting
Public Health is Access.
15+ years closing health equity gaps with communities, coalitions and public agencies.
Helping public health, healthcare, and community organizations translate data, community needs, and organizational priorities into clear, actionable strategies. Services include stakeholder engagement, priority setting, goal development, implementation planning, performance measures, and evaluation. Creating roadmaps to your future state that your board and community can both understand.
Coalition meetings, listening sessions and tense rooms held with structure and care — so decisions actually get made.
Designing, launching and evaluating programs that reach the people most often left out of the data.
Curriculum, training and plain-language materials that move knowledge into everyday practice.
About
Intentional Solutions is a public health consultancy built on more than fifteen years of practice inside health departments, nonprofits and community coalitions — the places where policy meets people.
The work is straightforward: Name the issue, bring the right people into the room, build something that lasts after the grant cycle ends. No jargon, no strategies written about a community instead of with one.
“Data identifies the problem, communities tell us why it is happening.”
About me
Population health and public service leader working at the intersection of health equity, education, and systems change.
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Ehasuyi Gomes, MPH, MS is a population health and public service leader whose work is grounded in a fundamental principle: individual and community well-being are shaped not only by access to healthcare, but also by education, economic opportunity, social conditions, public policy, and the systems that influence people's ability to thrive.
With more than 15 years of experience spanning public health, healthcare, research, government, education, and community engagement, Ehasuyi has built her career around addressing the structural and systemic drivers of inequities in health and well-being. Her experience includes disease surveillance, public health research, strategic planning, program development and evaluation, family and community engagement, and the development of collaborative cross-sector initiatives designed to improve population-level outcomes.
Her work in health equity has included advancing early childhood and developmental health initiatives, expanding access to preventive health services, strengthening community-based systems of care, and building partnerships that connect children, families, and communities with the resources and opportunities necessary to thrive. She has worked across systems to translate data and community experience into actionable strategies, strengthen programs through continuous evaluation, and develop collaborative approaches to complex public health challenges.
A central component of Ehasuyi's work is strategic planning and partnership development. She brings together government agencies, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, community-based organizations, families, and other stakeholders to identify shared priorities, align resources, and develop sustainable strategies for improving health and well-being. Her approach recognizes that meaningful population health improvement requires coordinated action across sectors rather than isolated interventions.
She also places family and community voice at the center of program and policy development. Through community engagement, qualitative and quantitative research, needs assessment, and program evaluation, Ehasuyi works to ensure that initiatives are informed by the experiences of the populations they are intended to serve. She views engagement not simply as outreach, but as an essential component of developing effective, equitable, and responsive systems.
MPH, Drexel University
MS in Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine
15+ years across public health, healthcare, research, government, and community engagement.
“We must reject the notion of rugged individualism, because we are all inextricably linked to one another. Your well-being is not merely your concern, it is also my business.”
— Inspired by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the “inescapable network of mutuality.”
Health Initiatives
Initiatives are built with communities, measured in public, and designed to outlast the grant cycle that funded them.
Quarterly pop-up fairs pairing screenings with benefits enrollment, hosted by residents rather than for them.
6 neighborhoods · 1,200 residents reached
Rewriting clinical and civic materials at a 6th-grade reading level, translated and tested with the people who use them.
40+ documents · 3 languages
A six-session series that helps grassroots coalitions turn shared frustration into a funded, measurable workplan.
9 coalitions · 2 funded plans
Training community members to deliver trusted, culturally relevant health messages to their own networks through conversation, social media and local events.
Community messengers · Trusted outreach
Education & Support
Education should be practical, accessible, and built with the people it serves. These tools are designed to make public health knowledge usable — in community rooms, classrooms, and everyday conversation.
Short explainers on topics like chronic disease, preventive care, and navigating benefits — written at a 6th-grade reading level and designed to be printed or shared in a group chat.
Interactive training on program planning, health equity framing, and community engagement. Available for nonprofit staff, resident leaders, and student groups.
Agenda templates, one-page decision frameworks, and conversation guides to help any group turn a good intention into a clear next step.
Community Support
Beyond tools, people need relationships. These support offerings are designed to connect, coach, and sustain the leaders doing the work on the ground.
A curated approach to connecting residents, organizations, and local agencies so no one has to navigate the system alone.
Individual or small-group coaching for resident leaders, educators, and early-career professionals working on health equity.
Regularly scheduled open office hours where community members and partners can ask questions about public health, funding, or coalition building.
Three questions to ask before your next community health assessment kickoff.
Public health is Democracy — a short thread on why civic access is a health intervention.
Funding round-up: five equity-focused grants closing before the end of the quarter.
Inside the issue
Intentional Solutions
Issue 01 · The Dispatch
A short opening letter — one idea, plainly said, with the evidence and the ask. Never more than 200 words, so it gets read on a phone between meetings.
Funding
HRSA health-equity planning grants — letters of intent due the 14th.
Read
Plain-language brief: what 'community-led' actually requires of funders.
Tool
One-page agenda template for a coalition meeting that ends on time.
Try this
Open your next meeting by naming who is missing from the table.
Current Issue
Published this month · 4 minute read
This month: housing as a health intervention, plus the funding, research and facilitation tools you can use before your next coalition meeting.
Book a consultation
Pick an open time straight from my calendar. Your slot is held the moment you book — you will get a confirmation with a short agenda, no pitch deck.
