


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

Rob Svetly, MBA

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
Deputy 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