Ross Anthony

PhD: Co-Director of the Center, Director of Global Health (biography)

Nicole Lurie

MD, MSPH: Co-Director of the Center, Director of Public Health (biography)

Jeanne Ringel

PhD: Deputy Director of Public Health Preparedness (biography)

Lee Hilborne

MD, MPH: Deputy Director, Global Health (Asia) (biography)

Marla Haims

PhD: Deputy Director, Global Health (Middle East) (biography)

Christine Carey

BA: (biography)

A-B-C-D

(Ph.D., Health Policy, Harvard University), Medical decisionmaking; cost effectiveness; analysis in health technology assessment; public health and prevention; international health policy.

(PhD, Operations Research, Stanford University), Public Health/Military Medicine. Areas of interest: Public health infrastructure, information and information technology in health care, health care as a system.

(PhD, Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mental and Physical Health. Areas of interest: social determinants of health and health care; gender, race and socioeconomic disparities in access to, utilization of, and quality of care; contexual effects on health.

(MD, University of Rochester; MPhil, PhD, Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School), Public Health/Vaccines. Areas of interest: Infrastructure and response, treatment evaluation, cost of care, health status,clinical epidemiology of AIDS and other infectious diseases, bioterrorism.

PhD, Public Health/Vaccines. Areas of interest: Chemical, biological and cyber terrorism, threat analysis, prevention, domestic response and preparedness, evolving nature of security to include health and disease, vaccines.

(PhD, Social Psychology, University of Texas) Mental Health (Associate Director). Areas of interest: mental health, homelessness, substance abuse.

(BA, International Studies, Fairfield University), Unit Administrator

(PhD, Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School), International Health. Areas of interest: Health care finance, hospital operations, public health systems, performance measurement.

(PhD, Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology), Military Medicine (Lead). Areas of interest: toxicology, military medicine, environmental health, risk assessment and communication, biotechnology, medical consequences of terrorism.

(PhD, Political Science, University of British Colombia, Canada), Public Health. Areas of interest: Food safety, analytical and strategic assessments relating to terrorism, transnational crime, issues of national, regional, and international security.

(PhD, Operations Research, Cornell University), Public Health. Areas of interest: Public health emergency preparedness and response, evaluation of readiness through drills & exercises, analysis of capacity, logistics, mathematical modeling, simulation.

(Doctorate, Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Public Health. Areas of interest: Child and adolescent health, mental health, public health systems research, community based participatory research.

(PhD, Public Health/Military Medicine), Medicine. Areas of interest: Countering chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear terrorism.

(MD, University of Pennsylvania; MPH, Epidemiology, UCLA), Public Health. Areas of interest: Public health infrastructure, social and environmental (structural) risk factors, prevention policy, STD/HIV and alcohol.

(PhD, Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles), Mental Health. Areas of interest: Social and cognitive factors affecting health behavior particularly sexual and substance use risk, coping with chronic illness, social comparison, media effects on health behavior.

(Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, Yale University), Mental health services; mental health policymaking; maternal and child health; military health; bioterrorism.

(PhD, Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles), Public Health/Military Medicine. Areas of interest: Improving the capacity of the public health system, dissemination of information, VA and the role of the MHS with respect to homeland defense.

E-F-G-H

(MD, Public Health/Mental Health. Areas of interest: Primary care-based services for victims of state-sponsored violence, understanding and improving the role of primary care health workers, mental health and behavior issues, understanding and improving public health system's ability to respond.

(PhD, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University), Human Genetics. Areas of interest: Genetics, biotethics, global health resource tracking.

(PhD, Statistics, Rice University), Public Health/Mental Health. Areas of interest: Mental health/terrorism, health care policy, multivariate data analysis, experimental design.

(MD, Dartmouth Medical School; PhD, Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana), Public Health/Mental Health. Areas of interest: Primary care physicians' attitudes about and preparedness for bioterrorism, best practices within health care systems, organization of health services, increased psychological and physical morbidity.

(PhD, Economic Analysis and Policy, Stanford Graduate School of Business), Public Health/Military Medicine. Areas of interest: Economic and organizational design, inter-organizational cooperation.

(MD, Harvard Medical School; MSPH, University of California, Los Angeles), Mental Health/Public Health. Areas of interest: Impact on individual's mental illness, substance abuse, domestic/child violence, functioning, risky behavior, impact on primary care providers.

(MA, Humanities--Literature, University of California, Dominguez Hills), Public Health/International Health. Areas of interest: complementary medicine, shamanism, appropriateness and quality of care.

(MD; PhD, Biology, University of California, San Diego), Public Health/Vaccines. Areas of interest: Anthrax, changes to anthrax vaccine policy, biological warfare, chemical warfare.

(PhD, Clinical Psychology, Duke University; JD, Harvard Law School), Mental Health/Public Health. Areas of interest: Legal, regulatory, and health services structures for responding to terrorist attacks; psychological effects; legal and mental health perspectives.

(PhD, Economics, Brown University), Public Health/Mental Health/Military Medicine. Areas of interest: Health law, health care markets, managed care, mental health.

(RN; MPH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Public Health. Areas of interest: Public health, immunizations, vaccines.

(PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Public Health/International Health. Areas of interest: Prevention/response systems, processes for reorganization/quality improvement, organization and job (re)design, quality improvement/management in healthcare.

(PhD, Health Services Research and Policy, University of Minnesota), Military Medicine. Areas of interest: Military health systems, effects of perceived quality on consumer choice of health plan and provider, medical outcomes, cost-effectiveness of medical interventions, long-term care and aging.

(PhD, Carnegie Mellon University), Statistics, Public Policy. Areas of interest: Health disparities.

(MD, University of California, San Diego; MPH, University of California, Los Angeles), Public Health/Military Medicine/International Health. Areas of interest: Laboratory and related issues, clinical aspects, appropriateness, guidelines, pathology, quality of care.

(BA, Economics, Brown University), Public Health/International Health.

(PhD, London School of Economics; former Ambassador to NATO), International Health. Areas of interest: health and foreign policy, NATO, European Union, Russia, U.S.-European Union strategic partnership, Middle East, globalization, terrorism, US government policymaking, national security.

(PhD, Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara), Mental Health. Areas of interest: Health and behavior responses to terrorism, media effects, the impact of stress on decisionmaking and cardiovascular health, health attitude-behavior relationships, health psychology, behavioral medicine.

I-J-K-L

(PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania), Mental Health. Areas of interest: School, large-employer, and governmental programs to intervene following terrorist acts; how to communicate to the public regarding risks of terrorism and preparedness; mental health; traumatization; quality of life among the mentally ill; dissemination of effective psychotherapy.

(PhD, Educational Psychology, UCLA), Mental Health. Areas of interest: School reponses to events, effectiveness of anti-bias, etc., middle school transition, peer influence, adolescent mental health, peer harassment, school-based violence prevention.

(PhD, Mathematical Social Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), International Health/Military Medicine. Areas of interest: Mitigative responses, restoration; establishment of training and testing mechanisms for newly designed system.

(MS, Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles), Public Health/Military Health/International Health. Areas of interest: Project management.

(PhD, History, University of California Los Angeles), International Health/Military Medicine (non US). Areas of interest: medical intelligence, medical NGOs and insurgents, non-state actors health services, Saudi and Gulf health care, Central Asian traditional medicines.

(PhD, Political Science, Yale University; MBA, Columbia Business School), Mental Health/Public Health. Areas of interest: Communications, development of toolkits, process/performance improvement, international business, strategic planning, business management/development.

(RN, MSPH, Public Health), Areas of interest: Public health system improvement.

(BS, Psychology, Brigham Young University), Mental Health. Areas of interest: peacemaking abilities in children and adolescents, conflict management, women's studies.

(PhD, 1998, Pharmaceutical Administration, Ohio State University, Columbus), Public Health. Areas of interest: Health-related quality of life, patient satisfaction, quality of care, pharmacist roles in improving health outcomes.

(PhD, Health Services, National University of Singapore, UCLA), Public Health. Areas of interest: Quality of care measurement and evaluation, public health preparedness, international health.

(MD, Medical College of Georgia; MSHS, UCLA), International Health/Military Health. Areas of interest: Religion and health, chronic illness and end of life care, organization and financing of hospice and palliative services, quality of life and spirituality.

(MD, Stanford University), Medicine. Areas of interest: Quality Improvement in Public Health.

(PhD, Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University), Public Health. Areas of interest: Statistics and epidemiology; health, environmental and social policy; environmental justice; small area estimation, clinical trials and observational studies; research synthesis; Bayesian methods.

(MD, University of Pennsylvania), Medicine, Health Policy. Areas of interest: Public health infrastructure, preparedness, global public health .

M-N-O-P

(PhD, Psychology, University of Minnesota), Mental Health. Areas of interest: Risk perception/formulation, use of risk information, design of persuasive appeals, health cognition and decision-making, self-regulation and persistence at health behaviors, social support and adjustment to chronic illness, psychosocial factors and treatment of addiction.

(PhD, Statistics, North Carolina State), Public Health/Mental Health. Areas of interest: Emergency response, analysis of clustered data, hierarchical models, drug prevention.

(MBA, Finance, New York University), Public Health/ International Health. Areas of interest: Organization and financing of health care delivery systems; communication and education in health option choice, effect on utilization and satisfaction; managed care effectiveness; incentives and behavioral impacts.

(PhD, Social Psychology, Claremont Graduate School), Mental Health. Areas of interest: Mental health and behavior issues, quality of patient-provider relationships, measurement and assessment of health care provider behavior, quality improvement for depression, primary care for mental health problems, social and psychological aspects of health and functioning.

(MD, MPH, Harvard University), Medicine. Areas of interest: Global health, public health preparedness, military health

(MPH, Health Promotion-Disease Prevention, George Washington University), Public Health. Areas of interest: Public health infrastructure, end-of-life care, cancer prevention and control, health education.

(PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Political Science. Areas of interest: Performance measurement, quality improvement, standards development, command structure, intergovernmental management.

(PhD, University of California, Berkeley), Economics.

(MA, Social Work, Health Administration and Policy, University of Chicago), Public Health/Vaccines. Areas of interest: Improving public health response capabilities and protocols, patient education/communication with the public, improving surveillance technology, simulation and modeling, diagnosis and treatment guidelines.

(PhD, Johns Hopkins University), Biophysics. Areas of interest: Military health; microbicides, reproductive health technologies, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV; microbiology; bioterrorism; public health preparedness.

(PhD, Quantitative Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Mental Health. Areas of interest: Substance abuse and mental health; item response theory, scale development, evaluation; multivariate analysis; preventive health care.

(MD, University of Texas), public health preparedness. Areas of interest: Health policy, public health preparedness.

(MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine ), Public Health/Mental Health. Areas of interest: Mental health impacts of bioterrorism, primary care, substance use disorders, quality and appropriateness of care, practice-based research.

Q-R-S-T

(PhD, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Vaccines. Areas of interest: kidney disease, technology assessment.

(RD, MS, Nutrition, Iowa State University), Mental Health/Military Health. Areas of interest: Project management for health research, guideline implementation, quality of care, managed care.

(RN, MPH, Health Policy and Management, University of Massachusetts), Public Health. Areas of interest: Public health infrastructure, systems organization, dissemination of information.

(PhD, Sociology, Florida State University), International Health. Areas of interest: Health and risk behavior among impoverished populations; influence of social relationships, networks, and relationship dynamics on behavior.

(PhD, Economics, University of Maryland), Public Health/Mental Health/Military Medicine. Areas of interest: substance abuse policy, maternal and child health, tobacco control.

(MA, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley), Public Health/International Health. Areas of interest: Methodology, organizational and inter-organizational structure; interactions between problem and adjacent organizations/institutions; triage.

(MD, UCLA), General Internal Medicine. Areas of interest: Quality improvement, changing healthcare provider behavior.

(PhD, Syracuse University), Political Science. Areas of interest: Global Health, Public Health Preparedness, Environmental Health, Military Health.

(PhD, Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara), Mental Health. Areas of interest: Assessing the role of the media and other dissemination channels in responding to terrorism; health behavior and attitudes; substance abuse, consumer and medical decision making; race, ethnicity and gender.

(PhD, Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Public Health/International Health. Areas of interest: how individuals and organizations respond to incentives (financial and otherwise), designing incentives to meet particular goals; health behavior and attitudes; substance abuse; consumer and medical decision making; race, ethnicity and gender health status; health risk behavior; managed care and vulnerable populations; aging.

(MD, MPP, Harvard University; PhD, Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School), Public Health/Mental Health/Vaccines/International Health. Areas of interest: Child and adolescent health, parent-child interactions, public health infrastructure for responding to attacks, risk communication.

(PhD, Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles), Mental Health/Public Health. Areas of interest: Improving quality of care and health outcomes, health status, assessment, social support, patient adherence, coping styles, child health, mental health, anxiety disorder.

(PhD, Health Services Organization and Policy, University of Michigan), Public Health/International Health. Areas of interest: Examing how the community is prepared for acts of terrorism, domestically and internationally; organization and financing of nursing home and community-based long-term care; caregiving; quality of care; outcomes; program evaluation.

(PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles), Public Health/Mental Health. Areas of interest: Access to care, quality of care, claims data, vital statistics data, managed care, military health care, environmental epidemiology.

(RN, MS, CHPN, Mental Health), Areas of interest: Mental health and behavior issues.

(PhD, Social Psychology, University of California, Riverside), Mental Health. Areas of interest: Psychosocial influences on health and health behavior, HIV risk behavior, substance abuse, social support and social network influences, mental health.

U-V-W-X-Y-Z

(PhD, University of Colorado Denver), Public Affairs. Areas of interest: Public health preparedness, public-private partnerships, collaborative governance, social network analysis.

(MA, Nursing Education, New York University; MS, Nursing/Family Practitioner), Mental Health/ Public Health/Military Medicine. Areas of interest: Role of the web, ehealth and informatics in prevention and preparedness; access/availability of mental health care; behavioral/psychological response to terrorism.

(PhD, RAND Graduate School for Policy Studies), Public Health. Areas of interest: Public health infrastructure, tobacco control policy, health promotion and disease prevention, quality of care.

(PhD, Portland State University), Public Health. Areas of interest: Public health, military medicine, international health, end-of-life care measurement, gerontology, health policy analysis, program evaluation.