Dr. Angelica Herrera, is a Health and Aging Policy Fellow, and formerly a National Institute of Mental Health T32 postdoctoral fellow, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Advanced Center for Innovation in Services at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Herrera’s primary objective is to examine the policies, costs, and organizational processes involving the implementation and/or adaptation of various care coordination models in community health centers that link primary preventive care, mental health services, and home- and community-based services for chronically ill low-income, ethnic minority, and limited English proficient elderly.
 

Dr. Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh, Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University, Department of Health Education.  Dr. Sanchez-Vaznaugh’s key area of research interest integrates markers of immigrant status into the list of social determinants of health and health inequities, which involves analyzing, documenting and monitoring obesity patterns among diverse immigrants as compared with natives. In addition, her research examines whether macro level policies (i.e., State-level) determine childhood obesity risk, as well as trends in racial/ethnic disparities.
 

Dr. Shedra Amy Snipes, Assistant Professor within the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Pennsylvania State University.  Dr. Snipes’ research focuses on the safety and well-being of migrant farmworkers, and the intersections between biology, culture, folk beliefs and health disparities research. Her field work has taken her to many worksites where she tests fieldworker exposure to pesticides and toxins.

Dr. Mindi Spencer, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health.  Dr. Spencer’s research focuses on how cultural and psychosocial factors influence quality of life in older adulthood. She has examined self reported health measures in minority groups, and has a particular interest in the need for care among and caregiving for elderly Native American populations.

Dr. Kalahn Taylor-Clark, Research Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution.  Dr. Taylor-Clark’s current research focuses on improving value in health care while reducing racial/ethnic and socio-economic health care disparities. She also is a survey researcher who designs and fields public opinion surveys to explore and understand support for health equity in all policies.

Dr. Naima Wong, Research Associate with the Georgia Health Policy Center in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.  Dr. Wong’s current research focuses on a diverse range of projects that includes providing local evaluation for a national cross-site initiative on environment and policy change to promote healthy eating and active living, conducting a health impact assessment (HIA) of a local military base closure redevelopment, and designing a national framework for implementing health in all policies (HiAP) in the US.