Feldman's most significant accomplishments during her tenure as district health director have been in the improvement of services for children and families. She organized the Lowndes County Child Abuse Council, which initiated child abuse prevention programs in local schools, as well as the Lowndes Commission on Children and Youth, which has evolved into a collaborative county planning group. She organized the public health component of child services, developing local public health outreach, immunization, early intervention, assessment, and service coordination programs for children. Feldman believes that the specialties of pediatrics and public health are a natural fit. That is the goal of pediatrics, too.
Pediatricians do more well exams than any other medical specialty.
We are active not only in prevention, for example, immunizations, but also in health education. Early intervention is a common concept for both public health and pediatrics. Currently, Feldman wants to complete a major survey of the district population on their concerns about major health problems and risks in the region. In turn, she wants to be able to present those beliefs in a statistically reporting format. That is only one of the projects she will be able to complete once she has saturated herself in the topics taught in epidemiology, biostatistics, and other departments at the school.