Minas Gerais in Brazil to the World Food Program. Bhargava has published in academic journals on communication, data literacy, technology, and civic media. His work has been shown at the Boston Museum of Science, Eye-beam Art + Technology Center, and the Fuller Craft Museum. He earned a bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a master of science in media arts and science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

AMANDA BOYD (Presenter, she/her/hers) is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. She is an associate professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and is a co-director for the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, both at Washington State University. Boyd is also affiliated faculty with the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. Her research draws from an interdisciplinary education, which includes communication, Indigenous studies, and rural sociology. Boyd has more than 16 years of communication research experience with rural and Indigenous populations in the United States and Canada. Her current work also includes examining communication about COVID-19, assessing Inuit perceptions of traditional foods and contaminants in Arctic regions, and working with Indigenous youth to create health messaging for their communities. Boyd engages in research that is informed by Indigenous peoples’ priorities and is conducted in ways that respect and is inclusive of their experiences, perspectives, and knowledge. She holds a bachelor of arts in management studies from the University of Lethbridge, a master of science in rural and environmental sociology from the University of Alberta, and a doctorate in communication (energy and environmental systems) from the University of Calgary.

HENRY BRADY (Presenter, he/him/his) is the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of political science and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, president of the American Political Science Association, and director of the University of California’s Survey Research Center. Brady is co-author of five books including Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age (2018), and he has co-edited four books and authored numerous articles on political participation, political methodology, the dynamics of public opinion, and other topics. Recently he co-edited and contributed to the Fall 2022 issue of Daedalus on “Institutions, Experts, and the Loss of Trust.” Brady was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received his doctorate in economics and political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

web-based dashboard being used by public health authorities, researchers, and the general public around the globe to track the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Gardner was awarded the 2022 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award for creating the COVID-19 dashboard that became the world’s most trusted source for reliable, real-time data about the pandemic. She has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020, included on BBC’s 100 Women List 2020: Women Who Led Change, and named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business for 2020. Gardner’s research expertise is in integrated transport and epidemiological modeling. She has previously led related interdisciplinary research projects which utilize network optimization and mathematical modeling to progress the state of the art in global epidemiological risk assessment. Beyond mobility, her work focuses more holistically on virus diffusion as a function of climate, land use, mobility, and other contributing risk factors. She received her bachelor of science in architectural engineering, her master of science in civil engineering, and her doctorate in transportation engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

SARAH GOLLUST (Presenter, she/her/hers) is an associate professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She is a member of the Collaborative on Media and Messaging for Health & Social Policy, an interdisciplinary group of researchers who study how media and messaging shape public opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Gollust is a social scientist studying the intersections of communication, politics, and health policy. In her past research, she has examined media influences and public opinion around significant health policy issues, including obesity, health disparities, the Affordable Care Act, and cancer screening. Gollust also examines how research is translated into health policy making. Her research program has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Gollust completed a postdoctoral fellowship in population health science at the University of Pennsylvania and she received her doctorate in health services organization and policy from the University of Michigan.

ELLA GREENE-MOTON (Planning Committee Member, she/her/hers) currently serves as administrator of the Community Based Organization Partners Community Ethics Review Board, with specific efforts in public health ethics focused on providing awareness at the community level, developing and elevating the community voice and advocating for community inclusiveness at the state and national levels. Serving as a community/academic bridge, she has an extensive background in public health advocacy, public health policy, community-based participatory research, and

programming, spanning over the past forty-plus years in the City of Flint and surrounding areas. Greene-Moton’s areas of expertise include facilitating community/academic/practice partnership building and sustainability as well as developing and managing community-based projects. She is a part of the Michigan Public Health Association, the Great Lakes Public Health Coalition, and is the president-elect of the American Public Health Association.

WILLIAM K. HALLMAN (Planning Committee Chair, he/him/his) is professor and chair of the department of human ecology, and a member of the graduate faculties of the departments of nutritional sciences and psychology, and of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is a member of the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and a member of the executive committee of the Rutgers Global Health Institute. Hallman is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and a distinguished research fellow of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines public perceptions of risk and risk communication related to food, health, technology, and the environment. Hallman is co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Climate Communications Initiative, has served as chair of the Risk Communication Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as a U.S. delegate to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Food Safety Cooperation Forum, Framework for Risk Communication in the APEC Region, as working group chair expert consultation on Food Safety Aspects of Cell-Based Food sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, and as director of the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers. He has a bachelor of science in biology and psychology from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and earned both a master of arts and doctorate in experimental psychology from the University of South Carolina.

BRUCE HARDY (Presenter, he/him/his) is an associate professor of communication and social influence with Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication, as well as a distinguished research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center. He has co-authored two books, The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the Election (2010) and Democracy Amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, & Persuasion (2023), and has authored numerous articles on media effects, public opinion, persuasion, and the politicization and polarization of science. Hardy received his doctorate in communication from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

messages and campaigns. Much of King’s recent work has focused on how people engage with cancer information in the public communication environment. He’s currently principal investigator on a National Cancer Institute grant looking at how using novel approaches to monitor and evaluate public communication about colorectal cancer screening can improve future cancer communication efforts. King also serves as associate editor-in-chief of the academic journal Health Communication. He earned a doctorate from Purdue University.

JANINE KNUDSEN (Presenter, she/her/hers) is the head of clinical innovation and population health at Accompany Health. She is an internal medicine-trained primary care physician dedicated to improving systems of care and advancing health equity while working towards a future where whole-person care and population health models are the status quo. Previously Knudsen served as medical director on the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner’s Office Special Operations Team and led strategic public health initiatives focused on community health equity. As medical director in the NYC Health+Hospitals Office of Population Health, she launched the Health+Hospitals CHW program, a home-based primary care program, and supported telehealth initiatives focused on improving care access and equity. Knudsen earned a bachelor of arts from Johns Hopkins University and a doctor of medicine from Harvard Medical School.

DAVID LAZER (Presenter, he/him/his) is the University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, faculty fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, and elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has published prominent work on misinformation, democratic deliberation, collective intelligence, computational social science, and algorithmic auditing, across a wide range of prominent journals such as Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Political Science Review. Lazer’s research has received extensive coverage in the media, including The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS Evening News. He is a co-leader of the COVID States Project, one of the leading efforts to understand the social and political dimensions of the pandemic in the United States. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan.

ADAM SETH LEVINE (Presenter, he/him/his) is the SNF Agora Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. He has published research findings addressing questions regarding the engagement and impact of civic life as well

as differences in expertise as researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and the collaboration among them in a variety of multidisciplinary journals, as well as a book entitled American Insecurity (2015). Levine’s second book, tentatively entitled Collaborate Now! How Expertise Becomes Useful in Civic Life, is forthcoming. He is also the president and co-founder of research4impact, a nonprofit that creates powerful new collaborative relationships between researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. He earned a bachelor of arts from Cornell University and both a master of arts in applied economics and doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan.

MAUREEN LICHTVELD (Presenter, she/her/hers) is the Dean of the School of Public Health, the Jonas Salk Chair in Population Health, and professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of Pittsburgh with over 35 years of expertise in environmental health. As Dean, Dr. Lichtveld oversees seven academic departments, 1000 students, 165 faculty, and 320 staff. Her research focuses on environmentally induced disease, health disparities, climate and health, environmental health policy, disaster preparedness, public health systems, and community resilience. Dean Lichtveld is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the NAM Council, and a member of numerous NAM and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Boards, Roundtables, and Committees. She is a member of the National Research Council Governing Board and Project Approval Committee. Dean Lichtveld is the Chair of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. She has co-authored the textbook Environmental Policy and Public Health. Honors include Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Environmental Health Scientist of the Year, and Woman of the Year of the City of New Orleans for her contributions to science. She received her master of public health from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Hygiene and Public Health and her medicine doctorate from Anton de Kom University of Suriname and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

ARTHUR LUPIA (Presenter, he/him/his) is the Gerald R Ford Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. His research clarifies how people make decisions and form or break coalitions in complex, political environments. Lupia has served as assistant director of the National Science Foundation and was the co-chair of the government-wide Subcommittee on Open Science for the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lupia is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s (National Academies) Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust and an Advisory Board member for the National Academies Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences. Lupia has won the National Academies William O. Baker Award

for Initiatives in Research, is a recipient of Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellowships, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned his bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Rochester, and holds both a master of science and doctorate in social science from the California Institute of Technology.

EMMA MACEDA-MARIA (Presenter, she/her/hers) is the program manager of Grupo Asesor Latino. She has been a part of the Fun to Catch, Toxic to Eat program in King County, Washington, and, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, she was invited to join the Community Navigators program. As a young Indigenous woman from Cholula Puebla, Mexico, she has been helping to elevate the voices of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities while breaking down barriers and building bridges between communities and agencies. Maceda-Maria’s passion is educating her community about environmental health and other social determinants of health and hopes that through her work she can empower her community to take action in protecting their health and the health of their loved ones. Her goals include continuing to grow as a trusted community leader and creating change while building paths for other community members with common goals.

MAIMUNA (MAIA) MAJUMDER (Planning Committee Member, she/her/hers) is an assistant professor in the computational health informatics program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her research applies artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to public health problems using search query, mobile phone, as well as news and social media data. Majumder’s laboratory currently focuses on emerging and vaccine-preventable infections; medical misinformation; and outcome disparities in marginalized populations, among other issues. Majumder and her team have been actively responding to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including seminal papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and in the Lancet family of journals. She is currently on the International Advisory Board of the Lancet Digital Health and is principal investigator on multiple federal grants that aim to study misinformation from both a sociopolitical and a public health lens. She earned a master in public health from Tufts University School of Medicine, and both a master of science and doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

DONALD MOYNIHAN (Planning Committee Member, he/him/his) is the inaugural McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy. His research seeks to improve how the government works. Moynihan examines the behavioral effects of efforts to improve public-sector outcomes through

government reform, as well as the administrative burdens people encounter in their interactions with the government. At the McCourt School, he co-directs the Better Government Lab. Moynihan has presented his research to policy makers at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Government Accountability Office, as well as governments around the world. His writing and research has been cited in President Obama’s and President Biden’s budget proposals, Office of Management and Budget policy guidance under President Biden, and media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, among others. Moynihan completed his bachelor of arts degree in public administration at the University of Limerick and received both his master of art and doctorate in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

JEWEL MULLEN (Presenter, she/her/hers) is associate dean for health equity at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, as well as an associate professor in the school’s population health and internal medicine departments. She also serves as director of health equity at Ascension Seton to help meet health equity goals across its system. Mullen is an internist, epidemiologist, public health expert, and the former principal deputy assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in building effective community-based chronic disease prevention programs and for her commitment to improving individual and population health by strengthening coordination between community, public health and health care systems. A former president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Mullen is a current member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Editorial Board, the ChangeLab Solutions Board of Directors, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Policies for Action National Advisory Committee. She is a current member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on a Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution. Mullen received her bachelor’s and master of public health degrees from Yale University where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychosocial epidemiology. She graduated from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a master of public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and completed intensive and advanced bioethics courses at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.

methodological expertise is in computational social science, network science, and survey research. Her recent work examines the links between misinformation exposure and political trust. Ognyanova is one of the founders and a principal investigator for The COVID States Project—a large multiuniversity initiative exploring the social and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. Her work has been covered in news outlets including The New York Times, NPR, Politico, The Washington Post, and WIRED, among others. Ognyanova holds a bachelor of science in computer science and a master of art in virtual culture from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, and a doctoral degree in communication from the University of Southern California.

AMELIE RAMIREZ (Planning Committee Member, she/her/hers) is director of Salud America! and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where she also is founding director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research and associate director of cancer prevention and health disparities at the Mays Cancer Center. She has conducted communications research and behavioral interventions throughout her career that have made tremendous strides to reduce cancer and chronic disease, increase screening rates and clinical trial accrual, and improve healthy lifestyles among U.S. Latinos. Ramirez currently directs the Salud America! national multimedia program to empower its vast network of 200,000 community leaders to drive healthy policy and system changes to promote health equity and support for Latino families (www.salud-america.org, @SaludAmerica on social media). She also directs Quitxt, a bilingual tobacco-cessation service for young Latino adults using mobile-phone text messages; the service yielded a 21 percent quit rate among enrollees at follow-up. She also has trained/mentored 250+ Latinos in health fields and leads the Éxito! training program to help master-level students and professionals pursue a doctoral degree and cancer research career. She has been recognized for her work to improve Latino health and advance Latinos in health, including an Icons in Healthcare Award from CentroMed; an APHA Everett M. Rogers Public Health Communication Award; a Making a Difference Award from Latinas Contra Cancer; a White House “Champion of Change”; and election to the National Academy of Medicine. Ramirez also is a Susan G. Komen Scholar and a member of the scientific advisory board of LIVESTRONG. She is a member of the San Antonio Mayor’s Fitness Council, which has overseen implementation of healthy lifestyle programs that have lowered local obesity rates. She also serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Obesity Solutions. Ramirez holds a master of public health and doctorate of public health from University of Texas’ Health Science Center at the Houston School of Public Health.

Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) Workshop Building Public Trust in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (PHEPR) Science: A Workshop. She has also served on the National Academies committee on Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Quinn earned a bachelor of arts in social welfare from Virginia Commonwealth University, a master of education in counseling from American University, and a doctorate in health education at the University of Maryland.

GREGORY TALAVERA (Presenter, he/him/his) is a bilingual, bicultural physician with over 30 years of community-based clinical and public health research experience. He is a professor in the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University where he founded and co-directs the community-based South Bay Latino Research Center. Talavera has dedicated his clinical practice, research, and advocacy to reducing disparities in the Latino Community both in San Diego and nationally. During the early part of his career, he practiced medicine in the Spanish-speaking, underserved communities of San Diego’s border region. As a family practitioner, Talavera came to understand the culture-specific beliefs that serve as barriers to quality chronic disease clinical management. Over the course of his career, he has designed and managed research programs involving cardiovascular disease prevention, breast and cervical cancer screening promotion, behavioral interventions for diabetes care, recruitment of minorities into long-term clinical trials, and smoking cessation. Talavera currently serves as the principal investigator for the landmark All of Us Research Program at the San Ysidro Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center. He obtained his bachelor of arts from the University of California, San Diego, a medical degree from the University of Utah, as well as both his master of public health and preventive medicine residency training from the San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, joint program.

KASISOMAYAJULA “VISH” VISWANATH (Presenter, he/him/his) is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and in the McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is also the faculty director of the Health Communication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Viswanath’s work, drawing from literature in communication science, social epidemiology, and social and health behavior sciences, focuses on translational communication science to influence public health policy and practice. His primary research is in documenting the relationship between communication inequalities, poverty and health disparities, and knowledge translation to address health disparities. Viswanath has written more than 280 journal

articles and book chapters concerning communication inequalities and health disparities, knowledge translation, public health communication campaigns, e-health and digital divide, public health preparedness, and the delivery of health communication interventions to underserved populations. Viswanath earned a master of criminal justice from Osmania University in India and both a master of arts and a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Minnesota.

ITZHAK YANOVITZKY (Presenter, he/him/his) is a professor of communication and public health at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is an expert in the areas of health communication, behavior change, and public policy making. Yanovitzky’s program of research explores effective mechanisms for knowledge transfer from research to policy and practice and strategies for improving community engagement and capacity building. He regularly partners with collaborators from across academic disciplines and sectors to address a range of public health challenges, including most recently efforts to address the opioid epidemic and the rising toll of youth depression and suicide. Yanovitzky is the immediate past-chair of the health communication division of the International Communication Association and is regularly called upon to provide expert scientific advice to national and international health agencies. He earned his doctorate in communication from the University of Pennsylvania.