Our Team
PRC-RH Leadership
Rima Afifi, PhD: Director, Dissemination & Translation Co-Lead, PI Center, Full Professor, Community & Behavioral Health
Heidi Haines, MS: Deputy Director, Evaluation Coordinator
Dr. Mark Vander Weg, Co-PI Core Research Project, Dissemination & Translation Co-Lead, Full Professor and Head Community & Behavioral Health
Aaron Seaman, PhD: Co-PI Core Research Project, Evaluation Co-Lead, Associate Professor Internal Medicine
PRC-RH Investigators & Staff
Shannon Lea Watkins, PhD: Investigator, Evaluation Co-Lead, Assistant Professor, Community & Behavioral Health
Daniel Sewell, PhD: Investigator, Evaluation Co-Lead, 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
Aaron Gumm Jr, BA: Communications Coordinator
PRC-RH Students
Olivia Caldera, MPH Student: Graduate Research Assistant, Epidemiology
Roxanne Nguyen, Masters of Science Student: Graduate Research Assistance, Biostatistics
Gaurab Maharjan, PhD Student Department of Community and Behavioral Health: Hourly Student Reserch Assistant
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