Shoshana Aronowitz is a family nurse practitioner, PhD prepared nurse scientist, and a health services research fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Instagram Lead/Editor of Dear Pandemic. Her research interests are the intersections of criminal justice and health, harm reduction approaches to the opioid/overdose crisis, the provision Read more…
Dr. Sandra Albrecht is formally trained as a social epidemiologist, with additional training in the social sciences, nutrition, and in both chronic and infectious diseases. Her research is focused on the social and neighborhood-level factors that contribute to the high burden of nutrition-related diseases in immigrants and among Hispanics/Latinos. She is on the faculty at Read more…
Dr. Aparna Kumar is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC) who works to ensure that mental health care is accessible, evidence based, and integrated across health care settings. Her research aims to improve outcomes for women, children and families by showing how and why mental health influences many aspects of our lives. She is Read more…
Dr. Lauren Hale is a sleep health researcher and professor in the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and serves as Associate Editor and Contributing Writer of Dear Pandemic. She received her MA and PhD from Princeton University in Public Affairs focusing in Population Studies. Hale serves on the Board Read more…
Ashley Z. Ritter, APRN, PhD is a geriatric nurse practitioner and the Chief Executive Officer of Dear Pandemic. She is also an Embedded Nurse Scientist and the Director of Clinical Care Research at NewCourtland, a provider of housing, health, and care management services in Philadelphia, PA. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the National Read more…
Dr. Jennifer Beam Dowd is Professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford and studies mortality trends and how social factors “get under the skin” to impact health, including via infections and immune function. She is also Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at Oxford and received her PhD Read more…
Lindsey Leininger is a clinical professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She specializes in data-driven health policy, with a focus on the health care safety net and community health. She has a longstanding interest in publicly funded health insurance programs, with related research spanning quality measurement, risk segmentation, and program evaluation. Read more…
Dr. Alison Buttenheim is a social scientist who studies the behavioral aspects of infectious disease prevention. She is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Associate Director of Penn’s Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. She is also a co-founder of Dear Pandemic Read more…
Dr. Malia Jones is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of infectious disease, social epidemiology, demography, and geography. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on how the places we spend time affect our health, especially when it comes to Read more…
