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Abigail R Aiken
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
araa2@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2561
Expertise: public health policy, women's health, reproductive health outcomes

Jacqueline L Angel
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
jangel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2956
Expertise: Hispanic health and demographics; aging policy; social policies with respect to diversity; long-term care; cultural diversity; ethnic studies

Lucy Atkinson
Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
lucyatkinson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6665
Expertise: communication in the context of sustainability and the environment, focusing on the ways message components (like visual elements, argument frames, source factors) in environmental communication campaigns influence environmental attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.

Ronen Avraham
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
ravraham@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1357
Expertise: Torts, Tort Reform, Healthcare Reform, Insurance Law, Law and Economics

Sarah Kate Bearman
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
skbearman@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Dr Bearman's research focuses on the effectiveness and implementation of empirically supported practices for common mental health concerns (anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and disruptive behavior) in publicly-funded settings that serve historically underserved populations of children and families.

Ben Bentzin
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Marketing, Red McCombs School of Business
ben.bentzin@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 750 9253
Expertise: Marketing of technology, product marketing, strategic pricing, social media, entrepreneurship

Edward J Bernacki
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School
ed.bernacki@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: occupational health, chronic disease management, workers compensation

Chandra R Bhat
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
bhat@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4535
Expertise: Activity and travel behavior analysis; Travel demand modeling; Application of econometric, discrete choice and market research techniques in transportation planning; Logistics and freight modeling; Transportation energy and transportation air quality analysis; Urban form and spatial data modeling; Transportation; Urban management; Pollution

Darlene Bhavnani
Assistant Professor of Population Health, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School
darlene.bhavnani@austin.utexas.edu

Kevin Bozic
Professor of Surgery, Dell Medical School
kevin.bozic@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5089
Expertise: management of patients with arthritis of the hip and knee, health policy and health care services research, healthcare technology assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, shared medical decision making, and value-based payment and delivery models

Christopher P Brown
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
cpbrown@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2288
Expertise: Researches how early childhood stakeholders respond to and conceptualize policies affecting the the complex educational, cultural, and individual goals and aspirations of teachers, children, and their families.

Joshua W Busby
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
busbyj@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8946
Expertise: Busby is the author of several studies on climate change, national security, and energy policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the German Marshall Fund, and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Busby is one of the lead researchers in the Strauss Center project on Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a $7.6 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. He has also written on U.S.-China relations on climate change for CNAS and Resources for the Future.

Marika Cabral
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
marika.cabral@utexas.edu
Expertise: Economics; health-related economics; health insurance; insurance; taxation; privatization of health markets

Darla M Castelli
Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
dcastelli@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7636
Expertise: Studies the relationship between physical activity and cognitive performance in children, adolescents, and emerging adults.

Namkee Choi
Professor, School of Social Work
nchoi@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9590
Expertise: Geriatric mental health, depression treatment in aging services, social policy for older adults.
Catherine Cubbin
Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Work
ccubbin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 0625
Expertise: Social epidemiology; social inequalities in health; neighborhood environments and health; public health

Edwin Dorn
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
eddorn@utexas.edu
Expertise: International affairs; national security/ defense policy; human resources policy (especially military personnel); civil rights/ race relations; policy making (especially the executive branch); federal education policy; African politics, business

Brian K Farr
Director, Athletic Training Program
bfarr@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1273, +1 512 471 9885
Expertise: Serves as Director of the Athletic Training Education Program and specializes in sports medicine, training athletes, athletic injuries, strength and conditioning, and sports rehabilitation.

Jeanne H Freeland-Graves
Bess Heflin Centennial Professor in Nutritional Sciences - NTR Study Abroad Dir., Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
jfg@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0657, +1 512 471 0974
Expertise: Nutrition; obesity; minerals; food; manganese

Kelly Gaither
Director Of Health Analytics, Texas Advanced Computing Center
kelly@tacc.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8957
Expertise: Scientific visualization; Feature detection; Illumination techniques; Visualization techniques; Visualization applications

Kristin A Garling
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy
a.garling@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0861
Expertise: Healthcare communications, patient engagement, patient-centric communication, health solutions, public health, rural health education and advocacy, healthcare professional development, chronic disease, medication therapy management, health outcomes

Michael L Geruso
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
mike.geruso@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8704
Expertise: Economics of Health and Healthcare, Development, Economic Demography, health insurance

Laurie B Green
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
lbgreen@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 736 1002
Expertise: Comparative Race Studies; African American Studies; Gender Studies; Working-Class History;
Migration; Urban History; Poverty and Public Health; Social Movements; Political and Cultural
History; Race Relations, Gender Issues

Sherri R Greenberg
Assistant Dean, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
srgreenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8324, +1 512 656 6592
Expertise: A member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1991-2001, Greenberg?s areas of expertise include state and local government, public finance and budgeting, education, health care, transportation, and campaigns and elections in the state of Texas.

Z Leah Harris
Department Chair, Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School
zena.harris@austin.utexas.edu
+1 240 426 7428, +1 512 324 0595

Mark D Hayward
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
mhayward@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8382
Expertise: Population and Life Course and Aging, Morbidity and Mortality, and Biodemography, Social Epidemiology, Quantitative Methods and Dynamic Models, Life Table Techniques, Death and Dying

Junfeng Jiao
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
jjiao@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Smart communities and built environments; Transit and food access; Active travel; Shared mobility

Lee Ann Kahlor
Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
kahlor@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 791 5726
Expertise: Public relations, health and environmental risk communication, science communication, and information seeking. Cultural and racial norms related to health behaviors, message processing

William R Kelly
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
wkelly@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4142
Expertise: Criminal Justice/Criminology/Ecology of Crime, Program and Policy Research and Evaluation, Research Methodology and Statistics

Deena Kemp
Assistant Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
dkemp@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: persuasion; emotion; behavioral economics in decision-making

Harold W Kohl
Research Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
hkohl@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 391 2530
Expertise: Specializes in public health, epidemiology and the study and promotion of physical activity for health.

William Lawson
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry
william.lawson@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Mental Health, Violence and Mental Illness, Racial and Ethnic Issues in Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Substance Abuse, Ethnic Disparities in Care, Access to Care, Ethnic Issues in Pharmacotherapy

Molly A Lopez
Research Associate Professor, Office of the Associate Dean for Research
mlopez@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 0614
Expertise: mental health services, evidence-based practice, trauma-informed care, cognitive behavioral therapies, workforce competency, systems of care.

Brad Love
Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
lovebrad@utexas.edu
Expertise: persuasive capabilities of mass media; public health

Jonathan E Macclements
Associate Dean and DIO of Graduate Medical Education, Dell Medical School
jonathan.macclements@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5104

Eric L McDaniel
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7268
Expertise: Religion and politics; Black politics; organizational behavior

Richard P Meier
Department Chair, Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
rmeier@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1701, +1 512 471 9031
Expertise: Child language development; sign languages; American Sign Language; acquisition of American Sign language by deaf children

Lauren A Meyers
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
utpandemics@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4950
Expertise: infectious disease epidemiology, evolutionary dynamics, molecular evolution, viruses, bacteria, RNA, mathematical modeling, computer simulation, bioinformatics, flu, Ebola, Zika, malaria

Julie A Minich
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
minichja@utexas.edu
Expertise: Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies; Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies; LGBT Studies; Feminist Studies; and Disability Studies

John Mirowsky
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
mirowsky@prc.utexas.edu
Expertise: Aging; health over the life course; creativity; employment; education and the transition to adulthood
Jeeyun Oh
Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
jeeyunoh@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8134
Expertise: user interaction with new media interface and its impact on health/environmental message processing and persuasion
Todd A Olmstead
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
tolmstead@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8456
Expertise: Healthcare Policy, Healthcare, Health Economics, Health Services Research

David M Oshinsky
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
oshinsky@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: 20th Century U.S. political and cultural history

Tolga Ozyurtcu
Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
tolga@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6018
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Studies the historical, philosophical, sociocultural, and political dimensions of sport and physical culture.

Keryn E Pasch
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
kpasch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8295
Expertise: Examines the relation between marketing influence on youth and young adult risk behavior such as substance use, nutrition, sleep and energy drink consumption.

Katherina A Payne
Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
kapayne@utexas.edu
Expertise: Researches civic education, early childhood/elementary education, and teacher education to examine the role of relationships, community, and justice to make classrooms democratic and equitable spaces.

Joseph E Potter
Other University Affiliate, Population Research Center, College of Liberal Arts
joe@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 689 7211
Expertise: Reproductive health, population and development, demographic estimation, Latin America and Texas. Evaluating impact of policies and funding for family planning in Texas.
Sarah J Rehnborg
A&P Hourly Employment, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
rehnborg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7062, +1 512 475 7616
Expertise: Non-Profit Management, Civil society, Education Policy

Pedro Reyes
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
preyes@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8569
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: I study student success for children experiencing poverty. I analyze how school leadership and state policy facilitate student success across the education pipeline.

Keri K Stephens
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
keristephens@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0554
Expertise: communication technology in the workplace; social media; crisis and emergency communication; sales communication; meetings; presentation skills; communication overload, workplace efficiency, remote work, disaster communication, communicating flood risk

Peter Thomas
Professor, Department of Marine Science, College of Natural Sciences
peter.thomas@utexas.edu
+1 361 749 6711, +1 361 749 6768
Expertise: marine science; reproductive endocrinology; endocrine-disrupting chemicals; environmental toxicology; steroid hormone action; reproduction/population risks

Debra J Umberson
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
umberson@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6330
Expertise: Population Health ( Structural Determinants of Mental and Physical Health; Stress and Social Support; Health Behavior; Health Disparities; Sexual Minority Health); Family and Gender (Gender and Relationships; Same-Sex Couples; Marital Status and Health; Relationship Quality and Health; Family Status and Health; Intergenerational Relationships; Family and Bereavement); Aging and the Life Course (Psychosocial Epidemiology across the Life Course; Aging and the Family; Death and Dying; Marriage and Intimate Partnerships).

Sean J Upshaw
Assistant Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
sean.upshaw@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: health disparity and communication in the context of visual information and persuasion; how underserved populations in the United States engage with health messages
Mary M Velasquez
Professor, School of Social Work
velasquez@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7019
Expertise: Motivational Interviewing, evidence-based interventions, integrated behavioral health, smoking cessation, alcohol abuse, prenatal health.

Lorraine O Walker
Professor, School of Nursing
lwalker@mail.nur.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4751
Expertise: Weight gain after childbirth

David C Warner
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
david.warner@utexas.edu
Expertise: Health policy; health finance; diabetes costs; border health; health insurance; mental health policy; Mexican health system; business, economics & labor.

Kari L White
Principal Investigator, Texas Policy Evaluation Project
klwhite@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1791
Expertise: Dr. White studies reproductive health and policy, with a specialty on family planning and abortion policy in Texas and the southeastern region of the United States. Much of her research is conducted as part of The Texas Policy Evaluation Project, a collaborative group of researchers who evaluate the impact of legislation in Texas related to womens reproductive health. She has been interviewed as an expert for news outlets such as the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio and has been featured as an op-ed contributor in the Washington Post, The Hill, the Austin-American-Statesman, and more.
Expertise: womens health policy; reproductive health, family planning legislation; contraception; abortion; Texas state policy on womens health; Title X; vasectomy; abortion and family planning policy in the southeastern United States

Patrick P Wong
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
patwong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8962
Expertise: social policy, family and child welfare, children services, mental health, poverty issues, housing, community development

Amy Young
Chief Clinical Officer, Vice Dean of Professional Practice, Dell Medical School
amyyoung@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Women's Health