Our Team
Leadership, Investigators, and Staff
Our Team
Rima Adel Afifi, PhD MPH
Natoshia Askelson, PhD MPH
Becky Bucklin, MPH
Gena Ghearing, MD
Heidi Haines, MS
Martha Sajatovic, MD
Daniel Sewell, PhD
Laurie Walkner, MA, RN
Shannon Lea Watkins, PhD
Current Students
Our Students
Rylee Beltran, BA, MPH
Priyanka Dubey
Stephanie Evett, BA
Abi Ilavarasan, BS, MPH
Meredith Meyer, BA
Eliza Steere, BA
Amanda Suresly, MS
Eliza Waage
Cathleen Zbylut
Our Partners
State Advisory Board Members
Sarah Dixon
Senior Director
Emerging Programs, Iowa Primary Care Association
Kaitlin Emrich
Public Health Director
Black Hawk Public Health
Katie Jones
Program Manager
Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, Iowa Department Health and Human Services
Michelle Lewis
Health Promotion and Planning Coordinator
Siouxland District Health Department
Jimmy Reyes
Associate Director of Practice and Education
University of Northern Iowa
Rachel Schramm
Communication and Outreach Coordinator
Iowa Cancer Consortium
Charla Shafer
Executive Director
The Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine
Sarah Taylor Watts
Physical Activity Coordinator
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lina Tucker Reinders
Executive Director
Iowa Public Health Association
Shelley Walker
Associate Director, State Partnership
American Cancer Society
Esmeralda Monroy
Program Supervisor
Child Abuse Prevention Services
Becky Pryor
Board of Health Administrator
Jasper County Health Department
Internal (University of Iowa) Advisory Board Members
Peter Damiano
Health Policy Research Program Director
Public Policy Center
Bernstein Professor, College of Dentistry
William Doucette
Professor, Head of Division of Health Sciences Research
David Frisvold
Director, Social and Education Policy Research Program
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Tippie College of Business
Tara McKee
Business Leadership Network Coordinator
Alumni Relations Coordinator
College of Public Health
Keith Mueller
Professor, Health Management and Policy
Director, RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Rachel Young
Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Margaret Carrel
Associate Professor
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill