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Matthew Akiyama

Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine

Dr. Akiyama is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinician-Investigator, with joint appointments in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Katherine Baicker

Research Associate at NBER and Dean and the Emmett Dedmon Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

BIOGRAPHY

Katherine Baicker, a leading scholar in the economic analysis of health policy, commenced as Dean and the Emmett Dedmon Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy on August 15, 2017.

Julie Baldwin

Director & Regents’ Professor of Health Sciences

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Dr. Julie Baldwin is the director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Baldwin’s research over the years has focused on both infectious and chronic disease prevention.

Sherry Baron

Professor at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College

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Sherry Baron MD, MPH is an occupational physician and Professor at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Queens College, and an affiliate Professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

Paloma Beamer

Professor of Public Health, BIO5 Institute, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, American Indian Studies

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Paloma I. Beamer, Ph.D., is a professor in the College of Public Health at the University of Arizona.

Lisa Marie Cacari Stone

Associate Professor of Health Policy with the Public Health Program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Senior Fellow with the RWJF Center for Health Policy

BIOGRAPHY

Lisa Cacari Stone, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Policy with the Public Health Program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Senior Fellow with the RWJF Center for Health Policy.

Eida Castro

Associate Professor and Psychologist

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Dr. Castro has a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) and a Post-Doctoral Master’s degree in Clinical and Translational Research (MSc.). Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU), Puerto Rico.

Christina Chambers

Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, San Diego and Vice Chair of Clinical Research for the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD and Rady Children's Hospital

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Dr. Chambers is a professor of pediatrics at University of California, San Diego and Vice Chair of Clinical Research for the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD and Rady Children's Hospital.

Raj Chetty

Director of the Public Economics Program, Research Associate

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Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is also the Director of Opportunity Insights, which uses “big data” to understand how we can give children from disadvantaged backgrounds better chances of succeeding.

Phillipa Clarke

Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research University of Michigan

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Arin Connell

Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training

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Arin Connell is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training at Case Western Reserve University.

James Coughlan

Senior Scientist - Coughlan Lab Director

BIOGRAPHY

James Coughlan focuses on computer vision, machine learning, visual impairment, blindness, and mobile vision at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute.

Anders Dale

Professor of Neurosciences, Psychiatry, and Cognitive Science and Data Science

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Anders Martin Dale is a prominent neuroscientist and professor of radiology, neurosciences, psychiatry, and cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and is one of the world's leading developers of sophisticated computational neuroimaging t

Sean Deoni

Director of MRI Research at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Associate Professor of Pediatrics Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University

BIOGRAPHY

An MRI physicist by training, Deoni's formative work focused on the development of novel MR imaging sequences to highlight and characterize brain tissue at increasing levels of detail.

Lisa Dixon

Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center and the Director of the Division of Behavioral Health Services and Policy Research within the Department of Psychiatry

BIOGRAPHY

Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H. is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center and the director of the Division of Behavioral Health Services and Policy Research within the Department of Psychiatry.

Susan Dunn

Associate Professor and Department Head Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science

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Dr. Dunn has conducted research focused on hopelessness in patients with heart disease for over 14 years. Findings from her NINR-funded dissertation research demonstrated that hopelessness is prevalent in patients with ischemic heart disease.

Claire Kamp Dush

Professor of Sociology, Co-director of the Development Core at the Minnesota Population Center

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Professor Claire Kamp Dush is Professor of Sociology and and co-director of the Development Core at the Minnesota Population Center. She is a family demographer who studies intimate relationships and their intersection with human development.

Brian Elbel

Professor, Department of Population Health, Department of Medicine

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Dr. Elbel is the founding director of NYU Langone’s Comprehensive Program on Obesity, spearheading an initiative designed to determine causes of obesity and develop new treatment and prevention strategies.

Brenda Eskenazi

Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH)

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Brenda Eskenazi is a professor of public health at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She works locally and globally on the effects of environmental exposures on the health of children.

Maria E. Fernandez

Director, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research

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Dr. Maria E. Fernández is Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health, and Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR).

Wei Gao

Professor and Director of Neuroimaging Research at Cedars-Sinai

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Wei Gao, PhD, is a professor and director of neuroimaging research at Cedars-Sinai.

Rachel Gold

Senior Investigator at Kaiser Foundation Research Institute

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Rachel Gold, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and health services researcher.

David Gustafson

Emeritus Research Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering

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Dave Gustafson directs the University of Wisconsin−Madison’s Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies, which includes the national program office for the Network for Improvement of Addiction Treatment, and Center of Excellence on Active Aging Research (Agency for Healthca

Rita Hamad

Associate Professor, Family Community Medicine

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Dr. Rita Hamad is a social epidemiologist and family physician in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UCSF. She is the director of the Social Policies for Health Equity Research Program.

Carol Hamilton

Senior Director, Bioinformatics, Research Computing Division

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Carol Hamilton leads a group of scientists with expertise in biology, computer science and computational biology. With training in genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology, Dr.

Tiffany Haynes

Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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Tiffany Haynes is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Allen Heinemann

Director at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research

BIOGRAPHY

Allen Heinemann is the Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He also serves as a professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr.

Elaine L. Hill

Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences

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As an applied microeconomist, Dr. Hill's primary research interests are in health economics and environmental economics. In particular, her research focuses on the intersection between health, health policy, the environment and human capital formation.

Sandra Hofferth

Professor Emerita

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Sandra Hofferth, Professor Emerita, School of Public Health, and Research Professor, Maryland Population Research Center, is a former Director of the Maryland Population Research Center (2008-2012) and a former co-Director of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1994-2

Christina Hoven

Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry and Director of the Global Psychiatric Epidemiology Group at the Columbia University Medical Center

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Christina Hoven, a Child Psychiatric Epidemiologist, is a graduate of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

John Hsu

Director of the Program for Clinical Economics and Policy Analysis, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, MGH; Associate Professor of Medicine,

BIOGRAPHY

John Hsu, MD, MBA, is the director of the Program for Clinical Economics and Policy Analysis within the Mongan Institute for Health Policy, which he joined in January 2010.

Peiyin Hung

Assistant Professor, Health Services Policy and Management Arnold School of Public Health

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Dr. Hung's primary research interests include rural health disparity, quality of care, spatial access to health services, and women health.

Kathleen Insel

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Kathleen C. Insel, PhD, RN's focus of research is on cognitive function over the lifespan and implications of cognitive function (specifically executive function and working memory) on self-management of chronic disease, or in the case of children, on school achievement.

Marian Jarlenski

Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, Associate Director, Center for Innovative Research on Gender Health Equity

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Dr. Jarlenski's work advances knowledge about how policies may affect pregnancy and reproductive health. Currently, Dr. Jarlenski leads a multi-disciplinary research group with Dr. Elizabeth Krans.

Cameron Kaplan

Assistant Professor, Medicine

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Cameron Kaplan, PhD, is a health economist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the USC Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science. His work focuses on the impact of health policy and insurance benefit design on healthcare utilization, health outcomes, and dispariti

Arie Kapteyn

Professor of Economics and Executive Director of USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research

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Dr. Kapteyn is an economics professor and founding director of the University of Southern California Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research. Prior to USC, he was a senior economist and director of Labor and Population at RAND.

Corinne Keet

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

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Dr. Corinne Keet is an Associate Professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A specialist in treating pediatric allergic diseases, Dr. Keet has a particular focus on food allergies.

William Kerr

Center Director

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William C. Kerr, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, and is Director of ARG’s National Alcohol Research Center focused on the epidemiology of alcohol problems and alcohol-related disparities. Dr. Kerr received his Ph.D.

Su Yeong Kim

Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences

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Su Yeong Kim, Ph.D., is Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

Steven Kogan

Athletic Association Professor of Human Development

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Dr. Kogan's areas of research include African American men's substance use during emerging adulthood and evaluating family-centered alcohol prevention programs for rural African American youth.

Brandon Kohrt

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at GWU

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Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Ai Kubo

Research Scientist and Cancer Epidemiologist

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Ai Kubo, MPH, PhD, is a research scientist and cancer epidemiologist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research.

Jessica Langbaum

Co-Director of Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative and Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Registry

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Along with colleagues Pierre Tariot, MD and Eric Reiman, MD, Dr. Langbaum leads the Alzheimer's Preventative Initiative, which is credited with helping launch a new era in Alzheimer’s prevention research. Dr.

Margaret Levenstein

Executive Director, Michigan Census Research Data Center Research Professor, Institute for Social Research

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An economist, Dr. Levenstein first joined ISR's Survey Research Center (SRC) in 2003 as the executive director of the Michigan Census Research Data Center (MCRDC), a joint project with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Jennifer Lorvick

Senior Public Health Scientist, Community Health and Implementation Research Program

BIOGRAPHY

Jennifer Lorvick, DrPH, has more than two decades of experience specializing in community-based research that addresses social and structural determinants of health, such as homelessness, substance use, criminal legal system involvement and racism.

Karen Joynt Maddox

Associate Professor, Medicine

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Gayenell Smith Magwood

Professor, Nursing

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Dr. Gayenell S. Magwood is Professor with tenure in the College of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Ana Martinez-Donate

Professor of Community Health and Prevention in the Dornsife School of Public Health

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Ana Martinez-Donate is a professor of Community Health and Prevention in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, joining the School in September 2015.

Catherine McKinley

Associate Professor at the Tulane School of Social Work

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Dr. Catherine McKinley is an associate professor at the Tulane School of Social Work who has dedicated her career to understanding resilience among Indigenous peoples of the southeastern United States.

Sara McLanahan

Founding Director of the Center for Research on Child Well-Being at Princeton University and former professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University

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Sara McLanahan, a prominent sociologist whose work played a foundational role in the understanding of single parents and their children, died of cancer December 21, 2021. She was 81.

Carmit Kurn McMullen

Senior Investigator

BIOGRAPHY

Carmit McMullen, PhD, is a medical anthropologist who studies health care delivery, cancer survivorship, and aging.

Raina Merchant

Professor of Emergency Medicine

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Merchant is a tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, and Division of Health Policy.

Elizabeth Miller

Division Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health and Clinical and Translational Science

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Dr. Miller is a professor of pediatrics, public health, and clinical and translational science and holds the Edmund R. McCluskey Chair in Pediatric Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Emily Miller

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Emily S. Miller, MD, MPH, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Northwestern. Her research program centers on perinatal mental health with a focus on mechanisms that lead to perinatal depression.

Todd Molfenter

Senior Scientist and Co-Director at the Center for Health Enhancement System Studies, based at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Todd is a senior scientist and co-director at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies, based at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Christopher Monk

Associate Chair of Faculty Development Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

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Dr. Christopher Monk uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine affective and cognitive processing during adolescent development.

Shannon Monnat

Director and Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

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Shannon Monnat is the Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion and director of the Center for Policy Research. She is also a professor of sociology and co-director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab at Syracuse University.

Christi Patten

Consultant, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology at Mayo Clinic

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Christi A. Patten, Ph.D., focuses on developing novel, theory-based behavioral interventions for tobacco cessation. Her focus areas include:

Athena Philis-Tsimikas

Director of Community Engagement at Scripps Research Translational Institute and Corporate Vice President at Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute

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Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD, is a specialist in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism.

Melissa Polusny

Advancing Research on Mechanisms Of Resilience (ARMOR) Project Principal Investigator and Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School

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Dr. Polusny has conducted federally funded (VA, NIH, DOD) research in the areas of trauma and PTSD for the past 23 years, resulting in over 100 peer reviewed publications.

Megan Ranney

Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Health Services, Policy and Practice

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Megan Ranney MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician, researcher, and advocate for innovative approaches to health. Her work focuses on the intersection between digital health, violence prevention, and population health.

Athena Robinson

Chief Clinical Officer

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Dr. Robinson is clinical psychologist, published author and editor, with treatment outcome research expertise in evidence based psychotherapeutics for a wide array of psychological concerns.

Cynthia Rogers

Full Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Dr. Cynthia Rogers’ research is centered on how certain social determinants of health impact vulnerable populations in both clinical and research settings.

Lisa Saldana

Senior Research Scientist

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Dr. Saldana is currently the principal investigator of a number of federally-funded projects related to implementation in child serving systems.

Diane Santa Maria

Assistant Professor

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Dean Diane Santa Maria, DrPH, MSN, RN, holds the Jane and Robert Cizik Distinguished Chair and the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair in Nursing Education Leadership.

Jessica Lee Schleider

Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University

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Jessica Lee Schleider is an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University. Schleider's research focus is on the treatment of mental health disorders such as depression in children and teens.

Mary Beth Schmitt

Assistant Professor at the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Director of the Children's Language, Literacy, and Learning Lab at UT Austin

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Mary Beth Schmitt, Ph.D., CCC-SLP directs the Children’s Language, Literacy, and Learning (CL3) Lab at UT Austin. Dr.

Jingjing Shang

Professor of Nursing

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Dr. Shang's research focuses on infection control, home health care, predictive risk modeling, nursing workforce, health quality, patient safety, and oncology nursing.

Yajuan Si

Research Assistant Professor, Survey Methodology Program

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Dr. Si is a Research Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor campus.

Gregory Simon

Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

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Gregory Simon, MD, MPH, is a Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and a psychiatrist in Kaiser Permanente's Behavioral Health Service.

Elizabeth Sowell

Principal Investigator at Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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Elizabeth Sowell, PhD, has been dedicated to understanding how the brain changes in structure and function both in typically developing child and adolescent populations, and in populations with neurodevelopmental disorders such as fetal alcohol syndrome and autism spectru

Brennan Spiegel

Professor of Medicine

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Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, is director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Master's Degree Program in Health Delivery Science.

Sarah Stahl

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science

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Sarah T. Stahl, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr.

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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Dr. Wiltsey Stirman is the co-lead of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science's Mental Health Innovtion and Technology Hub and co-developer of Pause a Moment, a digital wellbeing program for healthcare workers who experience COVID-10 stressors.

Moriah Thomason

Barakett Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Moriah Thomason is the Barakett Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Population Health in the New York University School of Medicine. She formerly served as Director of the Perinatal Neural Connectivity Unit within the intramural Perinatology Re

Wendy Troxel

Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist at RAND Corporation

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Wendy M. Troxel, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist. She is a Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation and holds adjunct faculty positions at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Utah.

Sarah Ullevig

Associate Professor, Nutrition and Dietetics

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As an Associate Professor, Dr. Ullevig teaches for the Coordinated Program in Dietetics and conducts research on nutrition-related topics utilizing her expertise in inflammation, oxidative stress, dietary supplements, malnutrition, and age-related muscle loss.

Jaydutt Vadgama

Full Professor of Medicine

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Dr. Vadgama is the Vice President for Research and Health Affairs at CDU. He is a full Professor of Medicine at CDU and at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in the Department(s) of Internal Medicine. Dr.

Milton Wainberg

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute

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Milton Wainberg is a Venezuelan, American and Brazilian researcher, clinician, and educator whose work has focused on bringing research to practice within public mental health systems of care and on training the next generation of mental health of clinicians and researche

Linda Waite

Senior Fellow and Director

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Waite directs NORC's Center on Demography and Economics of Aging, which provides support to more than 30 researchers working in the areas of social relationships, living arrangements, and family; the social context of aging; health care research; and biobehavioral pathways.

Lauren Wakschlag

Vice Chair for Scientific & Faculty Development, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Director of the Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences and Professor

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As a developmental/clinical psychologist, Dr. Wakschlag's scientific focus is on how early development (from the prenatal-preschool period) shapes mental health pathways.

Andrea Schneider Wallace

Associate Professor of Nursing

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Dr. Andrea Wallace is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Health Systems and Community Based Care Division at the University of Utah College of Nursing.

Melissa Walls

Director of the Great Lakes Hub for the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and Associate Professor of American Health in the Department of International Health

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Melissa Walls, PhD, MA, is Director of the Great Lakes Hub for the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and Associate Professor of American Health in the Department of International Health.

Bruce Weinberg

Associate Professor, Economics

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Dr. Weinburg's research has been published in journals including The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, and Science.

Emily Wiemers

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

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Emily Wiemers is an associate professor of public administration and international affairs, a faculty associate at the Aging Studies Institute and a research affiliate in the Center for Policy Research.

Risa Wolf

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

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Dr. Risa Wolf is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her clinical practice focuses on pediatric diabetes care and other endocrine issues.

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