“Heidi Schutz is a native Spanish speaker and an organismal biologist specializing in the evolutionary anatomy of vertebrates. All anatomy and physiology fascinates her, but bones are her jam. Heidi’s experience as a college professor and a researcher allows her to combine her interests in data analysis, visualization, and scientific communication to promote access, equity Read more…
Roopa Seshadri, PhD, AM is a quantitative health and social scientist whose work focuses on the impact of human services programs and policies on health and wellbeing outcomes in at-risk and underserved populations. She currently consults on social impact planning, evidence-informed strategy and helping organizations towards a learning culture. She has a PhD in Applied Read more…
Ashley Sever is a health communicator with more than 13 years of experience creating, implementing, and supporting integrated health communications programs for government, nonprofit, and private sector clients, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Currently, she leads the Health & Science Education Division at Fors Marsh, Read more…
Dr. Amanda M. Simanek received her MPH in International Health Epidemiology and PhD in Epidemiologic Science from University of Michigan School of Public Health. A social epidemiologist by training, she studies the pathways by which social inequities in health develop across the lifecourse and are perpetuated across generations. She is an Associate Professor in the Read more…
Rachel Spahnn is a public health professional and research administrator located in Madison, WI. She earned her Master of Public Health Degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and completed her thesis work in Harare, Zimbabwe last summer as part of a project focused on HPV among women and girls in rural areas. She has worked on Read more…
Dr. Aja Sutton (pronounced /ˈeɪʒə/; she/her) is a computational social scientist, health geographer, and demographer. Her work focuses on the social ecologies of human health: the ways lived environments, group- and individual-level behaviour, and population characteristics interact, drive, and contribute to population-level health phenomena. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Washington Read more…
Kelly Valentin is an aspiring psychiatric epidemiologist whose research interests include psychopharmacology, behavioral health, social determinants of mental health outcomes, and psychopathology. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the City University of New York School of Public Health. Before this, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Read more…
Mary-Jo Valentino supports the Dear Pandemic team with design, branding, and web development expertise. She collaborates on Dear Pandemic with Attachment Division, and is partner at the design and communications studio Imaginary Office. Mary-Jo has worked for over fifteen years in media development and design, with experience in web, radio and print environments. She holds Read more…
Daisey Velazquez is an undergraduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is studying Spanish Education and is currently student teaching at Hamilton Middle School. After graduating, she plans to teach Spanish in Wisconsin before returning to graduate school. She loves to cook and bake.
Grayson Waits, MPH, currently works as an Oak Rise Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At the CDC, she works within the Division of Reproductive Health on the Emergency Preparedness and Response Team. With the team, she serves as a health communications specialist and develops Read more…
Dr. Jennifer Wheeler is a public health researcher passionate about facilitating the use of research and evidence to better design and implement public health programs to achieve global health objectives. Drawing on her native Spanish, she edits, translates, and produces original content for Las Nerdy Girls. She received her MPH and PhD from Tulane University Read more…
Dr. Christine B. Whelan is a clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is the author of five books, most recently The Big Picture: A Guide to Finding Your Purpose in Life (Templeton Press, 2016). At the University of Wisconsin – Madison Dr. Whelan teaches classes Read more…
Christina is an Assistant Professor at Villanova University Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, and Adult Health-Gerontologic Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. She has more than 15 years of experience as an advanced practice nurse working to improve transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers. As a Certified Diabetes Education and Care Specialist she has Read more…
Nicole is the co-host of the Woman Centered Health Podcast and recently completed a Quality Improvement fellowship at the Iowa City VA Medical Center. She has her PhD in nursing from the University of Iowa and her research interests include understanding how women’s contexts impact their perspectives of sexual health and their sexual behavior. In Read more…
John Ungar is an experienced nonprofit leader, attorney and licensed real estate broker based in Philadelphia. His work has contributed to the development of hundreds of units of affordable housing, the revitalization of neighborhood business districts, and provided housing for homeless individuals. He is currently Corporate Counsel and Director of Planning for NewCourtland, an organization Read more…
