Our Team
PRC-RH Leadership
Rima Afifi, PhD: Director, Dissemination & Translation Co-Lead, PI Center, Professor, Community & Behavioral Health
Heidi Haines, MS: Deputy Director, Evaluation Lead
Dr. Mark Vander Weg, Co-PI Core Research Project, Dissemination & Translation Co-Lead, Professor and Head Community & Behavioral Health
Aaron Seaman, PhD: Co-PI Core Research Project, Assistant Professor Internal Medicine
PRC-RH Investigators & Staff
Shannon Lea Watkins, PhD: Investigator, Assistant Professor, Community & Behavioral Health
Daniel Sewell, PhD: Investigator, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Joanna Krajewski, PhD, MPH: Communication Lead, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Director, Online MA in Strategic Communications, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Loulwa Soweid, MPH: Qualitative Analyst, Core Research Project, Community & Behavioral Health
PRC-RH Students
Olivia Caldera, MPH Student: Graduate Research Assistant, Epidemiology
Abran Nicolas, Masters of Science Student: Graduate Research Assistance, Biostatistics
Special Interest Projects Principle Investigators
Natoshia Askelson, PhD: PI UI CPCRN, Co-PI ARISe, Associate Professor, Community & Behavioral Health
Aaron Scherer, PhD: Co-PI ARISe, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine