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Child Care and Family Well-being
Dr. Ibukun Christine Akinboyo
Ibukun Akinboyo is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Duke School of Medicine and a medical director of pediatric infection prevention at Duke University Medical Center.
ica5@duke.edu
Leslie Babinski
Leslie Babinski is director of the Center for Child and Family Policy and an associate research professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke. She is a licensed psychologist who studies children and adolescents, and professional development for teachers.
leslie.babinski@duke.edu
Brian Cooper
Brian Cooper is director of educational innovation and online learning at Duke’s Talent Identification Program. He taught in Durham Public Schools for six years and at Duke Cooper has created new distance-learning program models and online educational programming.
bcooper@tip.duke.edu
Kenneth Dodge
Kenneth Dodge is a professor of public policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy and a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke, where he studies early childhood development. Dodge is the founding and past director of the Center for Child and Family Policy.
dodge@duke.edu
Keisha Bentley-Edwards
Keisha Bentley-Edwards is a developmental psychologist, an assistant professor at the Duke School of Medicine and director of the Health Equity Working Group for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity. She examines how race, culture and racism stress influence how the world responds to Black Americans and influences health and social disparities.
keisha.bentley.edwards@duke.edu
Lisa Gennetian
Lisa Gennetian is an applied behavioral economist and professor of public policy with expertise in child poverty and early childhood. She can discuss the impact of stimulus money and tax reform that support families with children.
lisa.gennetian@duke.edu.
Elizabeth Gifford
Elizabeth Gifford is an assistant research professor of public policy who studies programs and policies aimed at vulnerable children and an Early Childhood Policy Fellow with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
beth.gifford@duke.edu
Robin Gurwitch
Robin Gurwitch is a professor in Duke’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for Child and Family Health. She is an expert on the impact of trauma and disasters on children and is a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
robin.gurwitch@duke.edu
Dr. Gabriela M. Maradiaga Panayotti
Dr. Gabriela M. Maradiaga Panayotti is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke. A fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics, she specializes in ambulatory medical care for children, evidence-based pediatrics and obesity in children. She co-leads the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19
gabriela.maradiaga@duke.edu
Katie Rosanbalm
Katie Rosanbalmis a senior research scientist at the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy. Trained as a child clinical and quantitative psychologist, Rosanbalm’s work focuses on early childhood programs, self-regulation development, child welfare and trauma-sensitive schools. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has consulted local policymakers on how to support children with social-emotional learning needs upon return to school. katie.rosanbalm@duke.edu
Dr. Charlene Wong
Dr. Charlene Wong is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Duke School of Medicine and a primary care pediatrician specializing in adolescent and young adult care. She is also a core faculty member at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.
charlene.wong@duke.edu
COVID-19/Reopening Schools
Dr. Danny Benjamin
Danny Benjamin, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics in the Duke University School of Medicine and chair of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Pediatric Trials Network. Research on safely reopening schools.
Contact: sarah.avery@duke.edu
Dr. Kanecia Obie Zimmerman
Kanecia Zimmerman, M.D., is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. She is co-leading a pilot project funded by the National Institutes of Health studying the safe reopening of schools. Read her research on safely reopening schools.
Contact: sarah.avery@duke.edu
Disease Prevention
Dr. Michael Merson
Dr. Michael Merson is a professor of Global Health and the director of the SingHealth Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Global Health Institute. He has written more than 180 articles, mostly about disease prevention, and has served in advisory capacities for UNAIDS, WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, World Bank and the World Economic Forum.
michael.merson@duke.edu
Elderly Care
Kyle Bourassa
Kyle Bourassa is a clinical psychologist and a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University Medical Center. His research focuses on understanding the impact of stressful life events on health across the lifespan.
kyle.bourassa@duke.edu
Eleanor McConnell
Eleanor Schildwachter McConnell is an associate professor in the Duke University School of Nursing. She studies factors that influence functional decline in very frail older adults. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
eleanor.mcconnell@duke.edu
Epidemic Narratives
Priscilla Wald
Priscilla Wald is an English professor and author of “Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative.” She specializes in literature, law, science and medicine and has extensively examined the intersection of myth and medicine as they relate to contagions.
pwald@duke.edu
Financial Markets
Jim Cox
Jim Cox is a law professor and expert in corporate and securities law who can discuss stock market regulatory and enforcement issues, including the causes of crises. He can also discuss Sen. Richard Burr’s questionable stock sale and whether and how the STOCK Act applies to such sales.
Cox@law.duke.edu
Campbell Harvey
Campbell Harvey is a business professor and research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, specializing in financial markets, global risk management and portfolio management. He is also founding director of the Duke-CFO Survey.
cam.harvey@duke.edu
Global Health
Gavin Yamey
Gavin Yamey is a professor of the practice of public health and global policy and director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute. He can discuss global health, infectious diseases, neglected diseases, health policy and disparities in health, among many other related topics. Listen to a podcast interview here.
gavin.yamey@duke.edu
Health Care Policy/Reform
Nathan Boucher
Nathan Boucher is an assistant research professor of public policy, and assistant professor of Track V in population health sciences and medicine. He researches patients’ and caregivers’ experiences and expectations of health care delivery during advanced illness and near the end of life, using qualitative and mixed methods research. He has extensive experience in clinical medicine, including having been a physician’s assistant, and in health care administration, education of health professions and in community-based research.
nathan.boucher@duke.edu
Dr. Mark McClellan
Dr. Mark McClellan is an economist and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration whose work has addressed a wide range of strategies and policy reforms to improve health care. This includes payment reforms, methods for development and use of real-world evidence and approaches for more effective drug and device innovation. He is also a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. McClellan now directs the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.
mark.mcclellan@duke.edu
David Ridley
David Ridley is a professor of the practice of business and faculty director of Duke’s Health Sector Management program. He can discuss innovation and pricing, especially in health care. He was the lead author of the paper proposing the priority review voucher program to encourage development of drugs for neglected diseases, which became U.S. law in 2017.
david.ridley@duke.edu
Donald Taylor
Donald Taylor is a professor of public policy and director of Duke’s Social Science Research Institute. He researches aging and comparative health systems, including Medicare, long-term care and health policy.
don.taylor@duke.edu
Dr. Peter Ubel
Dr. Peter Ubel is a professor of business administration, public policy and medicine. He is a physician and behavioral scientist. Ubel uses the tools of decision psychology and behavioral economics to explore topics like informed consent, shared decision making and health care spending.
peter.ubel@duke.edu
Health Disparities
Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is an associate professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, where she is a primary care physician and director of health equity. She specializes in health disparities and access to health care. Martinez-Bianchi will make her opening comments in Spanish and English, and can answer questions from reporters in both languages.
viviana.martinezbianchi@duke.edu
Dr. Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju
Lola Fayanju is an assistant professor of surgery and population health sciences in the Duke School of Medicine, director of the Durham VA Breast Clinic and associate director for disparities and value in health care with Duke Forge, the university’s center for data science. Her research includes variants of breast cancer that are often more common among racial and ethnic minorities.
lola.fayanju@duke.edu
Dr. Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas is an associate professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the Duke School of Medicine, where he is also assistant dean for underrepresented faculty development and co-director of the Duke Health Disparities Research Curriculum. Thomas is also director of health disparities research and faculty diversity at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
kevin.thomas@duke.edu
Infectious Diseases
Ooi Eng Eeong
Ooi Eng Eong is a professor of medicine and deputy director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. He also co-directs the Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (ViREMiCS), which studies therapies and vaccines against viral infections.
engeong.ooi@duke-nus.edu.sg
Dr. Gregory Gray
Dr. Gregory Gray is an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor of medicine, global health and environmental health. Gray, a former Navy epidemiologist, leads the Duke One Health Network, which involves more than 30 professionals studying more than 30 pathogens under 30 research and training projects running in multiple countries.
gregory.gray@duke.edu
Dr. Sallie Permar
Dr. Sallie Permar is a professor of pediatric infectious disease, immunology and molecular genetics at the Duke School of Medicine, where she is also associate dean of physician scientist development. Permar can address how COVID-19 affects mothers and children, how viruses transmit between people and general questions on vaccine development. She is also on the faculty of Duke Global Health Institute.
sallie.permar@duke.edu
Dr. Jonathan Quick
Dr. Jonathan Quick is an adjunct professor of global health and infectious disease expert at Duke Global Health Institute. He can discuss the state and trajectory of the outbreak, global and local preparations and response and lessons learned from historical events such as the 1918 influenza pandemic. Quick, author of the book, “The End of Epidemics,” has also served as director of essential drugs and medicines policies at the World Health Organization.
jonathan.quick@duke.edu
Linfa Wang
Linfa Wang is director of the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. He can discuss the origins and spread of the novel coronavirus, comparisons to SARS and other pathogens and efforts to diagnose, detect and contain the virus. Wang specializes in bat-borne viruses and played a leading role in identifying bats as the natural host of the SARS virus outbreak in 2002-2003. He is also a member of the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee for Pneumonia due to the Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV.
linfa.wang@duke-nus.edu.sg
Cameron Wolfe
Cameron Wolfe is an associate professor of medicine and who can discuss HIV infection, transplant-related infectious diseases, general infectious diseases, biological and emergency preparedness for hospital systems, and influenza and respiratory viral pathogens.
cw74@duke.edu
Insurance
David Anderson
David Anderson is a research associate at the Margolis Center for Health Policy. He can discuss impacts of different health insurance reform proposals, benefit configuration, cost-sharing and policy analysis, and Medicare end-of-life payment reform models.
DMA34@duke.edu; Twitter: @bjdickmayhew
Medical Care and Ethics
Dr. Farr Curlin
Dr. Farr Curlin, a hospice and palliative care physician, can speak to the ethics of caring for patients with advanced illness, including how people make decisions under conditions of scarcity, and the ethics of medicine. He holds joint appointments in the Duke School of Medicine and at Duke Divinity School; he is co-director at the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative.
farr.curlin@dm.duke.edu
Minority Issues
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda is an associate professor at the Duke University School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the intersection of intimate partner violence, substance abuse, HIV and mental health among Latinos in the U.S. and the development of culturally tailored interventions to address these.
rosa.gonzalez-guarda@duke.edu
Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is an associate professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, where she is a primary care physician and director of health equity. She specializes in health disparities and access to health care. Martinez-Bianchi will make her opening comments in Spanish and English, and can answer questions from reporters in both languages.
viviana.martinezbianchi@duke.edu
Misinformation
Philip Napoli
Philip Napoli is a professor of public policy. He researches media institutions, regulation and policy. His recent projects include researching new ideas for social media regulation, “news deserts,” and the contraction of news media. Napoli’s latest book is “Social Media and Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age.”
philip.napoli@duke.edu
Brian Southwell
Brian Southwell specializes on issues such as campaign measurement and evaluation, the roles of social networks, lifespan development and misinformation. He hosts “The Measure of Everyday Life,” a weekly public radio show produced by WNCU for the Raleigh-Durham, NC, media market.
brian.southwell@duke.edu
Price Gouging, Regulation and Markets
Michael Munger
Michael Munger, a professor of political science, can discuss price gouging, the gig economy, the functioning of markets, regulation and government institutions. His most recent book, “Tomorrow 3.0,” addresses the gig economy and its relation to the fundamental economic concept of transaction cost.
munger@duke.edu
Psychological Issues
Beth-Anne Blue
Beth-Anne Blue is a psychologist, the assistant director of Duke Personal Assistance Service and a faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University’s School of Medicine. She specializes in working with trauma, anxiety disorders (such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder), mood disorders (including depression and bipolar disorders), eating disorders and crisis management.
bethanneblue@duke.edu
Robin Gurwitch
Robin Gurwitch is a professor in Duke’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for Child and Family Health. She is an expert on the impact of trauma and disasters on children and is a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
robin.gurwitch@duke.edu
Yan Li
Yan Li is a psychologist and associate dean and director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Duke Kunshan University in China. Her main job responsibilities are to assist students as they deal with the personal, social, and academic challenges of the college experience, and support them in achieving their goals in these areas.
yan.li3@duke.edu
Religion
David Emmanuel Goatley
David Emmanuel Goatley is director of the Office of Black Church Studies and a research professor of theology. He is a global leader in faith formation, community engagement, global development and justice advocacy with particular focus among African-American communities and marginalized populations in the Global South.
dgoatley@div.duke.edu
Amy Laura Hall
Amy Laura Hall has been on faculty at Duke since 1999 and is an established speaker and writer in Christian ethics who can speak on medical ethics, Scriptural ethics, global health, faith and public witness and the political uses of fear. She is the author of a book about Julian of Norwich, a theologian who was a witness to the devastating effects of the bubonic plaque.
alhall@div.duke.edu
Brett McCarty
Brett McCarty is an assistant research professor of theological ethics at Duke Divinity School and associate director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative. Drawing from his research on the opioid crisis, McCarty can speak about the roles played by religious communities and commitments in societal responses to public health issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
brett.mccarty@duke.edu
Risk-Taking and Accountability
Sim Sitkin
Sim Sitkin is a business professor focused on leadership and control systems and their influence on how organizations and their members become more or less capable of change and innovation. He is widely known for his research on the effect of leadership and risk-taking, accountability, trust, learning and innovation. Sitkin is the founding director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at The Fuqua School of Business.
sim.sitkin@duke.edu
Rural Global Health
Manoj Mohanan
Manoj Mohanan, an economist, is an associate professor of public policy and global health whose research focuses on health care delivery and access in developing countries. He is in India, so reporters are asked to contact him between 9 and 11:30 a.m. ET.
anoj.mohanan@duke.edu
Social Networking/Distancing
James Moody
James Moody is a sociologist and who has used network models to help understand school racial segregation, adolescent health, disease spread, economic development and the development of scientific disciplines. He is the founding director of the Duke Network Analysis Center, and editor of the online Journal of Social Structure.
james.moody@duke.edu
Vaccines
Thomas N. Denny
Thomas Denny is chief operating officer of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, a professor of medicine and an affiliate member of the Duke Global Health Institute. His administrative oversight includes a research portfolio of more than $400 million. Denny has served on numerous committees for the NIH over the last two decades.
thomas.denny@duke.edu
Lavanya Vasudevan
Lavanya Vasudevan is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Global Health Institute at Duke. She is also a faculty affiliate at Duke’s Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research.
lavanya.vasudevan@duke.edu
Dr. Emmanuel Walter Jr.
Dr. Emmanuel “Chip” Walter Jr. is chief medical officer of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, where he directs the Duke Vaccine and Trials Unit. Walter is also a professor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine.
chip.walter@duke.edu
Vaccine Hesitancy
Gavan Fitzsimons is a professor of marketing and psychology. His research focuses on understanding the ways in which consumers may be influenced without their conscious knowledge or awareness by marketers and marketing researchers, often without any intent on the part of the marketer.
gavan@duke.edu
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