The focus of Wendy Auslander's work is health care/health behaviors, evaluation of interventions, AIDS prevention among teenagers, minority health and health promotion, family functioning, and chronic illness.

A leading expert in chronic disease prevention and an expert in the area of applied epidemiology, Ross Brownson is regarded as one of the great intellectual, educational, and practice leaders in the field of evidence-based public health.

Renee Cunningham-Williams

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Cunningham-Williams' expertise centers on the comorbidity of mental health disorders, particularly those relating to behavioral addictions, risk taking, and antisocial behaviors.

Brett Drake's scholarship focuses on issues in child welfare including initial assessment, reporting, prevention, and child protective interventions. He is particularly interested in studying early intervention in cases of child maltreatment and understanding linkages between environmental factors, ...

Tonya Edmond's research and teaching interests include violence against women and practice effectiveness. Her current projects involve examining the theoretical and intervention preferences of domestic violence and sexual assault service providers, the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ...

Clif Emery's is available to speak about domestic violence and its effects on children, quantitative methods and social theory. Among his current projects are secondary data analysis of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods data and research on domestic violence in South Korea. ...

Gillespie

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David Gillespie studies the areas of organizational dynamics, disaster preparedness and mitigation, and social measurement. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Science Foundation, AmerenUE, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have funded his research. His projects focus ...

Debra Haire-Joshu is an internationally renowned scholar of health behavior who develops population wide interventions to reduce obesity and prevent diabetes, particularly among underserved youth.

Shanti Khinduka

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Shanti Khinduka's primary professional interests are social work education and international social development. He has written extensively on social work education, international social work, and ethnic diversity. He served as dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work for 30 years.

Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.

Lawlor

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Edward Lawlor is a nationally-recognized expert in healthcare policy, particularly in the areas of medical indigence, health-care reform and administration, and policy for the aged and poor. His groundbreaking work in Medicare policy is recognized for its originality and insightful analysis. Lawlor's ...

Carolyn Lesorogol's main interests are in international social development and the dynamics of social change processes. She has studied these issues among African pastoralists in Kenya where she has conducted long term fieldwork examining the political and economic processes resulting in privatization ...

Monica Matthieu

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Matthieu's expertise centers on mental health services. She is available to discuss suicide prevention, mental health in the aftermath of disasters, the mental health impact of trauma as well as the mental health of veterans. Her current research focuses on provider and organizational change required ...

Amanda McBride

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Amanda Moore McBride specializes in civic engagement and civic service, which is a type of long-term, intensive volunteering. She researches inclusive definitions and measurement of civic engagement, international service and global citizenship, youth service as youth development, and the relationship ...

McBride

Tim McBride has been active in testifying before Congress and consulting with important policy constituencies on Medicare, insurance and rural health policy issues. He is a member of the Rural Policy Research Institute Health Panel that provides expert advice on rural health issues to the U.S. Congress ...

McMillen

Curtis McMillen, associate director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research, has two primary substantive areas of expertise: older youth in the foster care system and coping with traumatic stress. He is the principal investigator on aNIMH funded study following older youth in the foster care ...

Nancy Morrow-Howell

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Nancy Morrow-Howell studies many issues of concern to the elderly and their families, including adequacy of care for the dependent elderly, community care plans for the elderly, and use of mental health services. She is studying the health and mental health services needed and used by older adults ...

Yunju Nam is available to comment on social and economic equality, poverty, welfare policy, domestic violence, child welfare, and asset-building policy for the poor. She is particularly interested in the effect of welfare reform on poor children and women.

Martha Ozawa

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Martha Ozawa has written widely on policy analysis of social welfare programs, income support programs, social security, unemployment, welfare programs, and social issues related to older adults, women, and children. Currently she is studying anti-poverty effects of public income transfers on children, ...