Dr. Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, is a professor at the University of Washington in the Departments of Global Health, Medicine, and Epidemiology. Dr. Farquhar is also the Associate Chair for Academic Programs in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. She received her MD at Harvard Medical School. She completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Washington, where she also earned a Masters in Public Health. She mentors US and Kenyan trainees and currently conducts research in Kenya on HIV testing and partner notification services, HIV and HCV diagnosis and access to treatment among persons who inject drugs,and non-communicable diseases among HIV-infected persons.
She has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers and is the Director of the UW Kenya Research and Training Center and 3 international training programs: International AIDS Research and Training Program (IARTP), Afya Bora Consortium Fellowship in Global Health Leadership, and Global and Rural Health Fellowship. She is also Director of the UW Internal Medicine Global Health Pathway. Dr. Farquhar teaches 3 courses in the School of Public Health — AIDS: A Multidisciplinary Approach, the Responsible Conduct of Research, and the Integrated Residency Global Health Leadership course. In addition, she sees HIV-infected patients one half-day per week at Madison Clinic and attends on the wards at Harborview Medical Center. NA
Ariel Rokem is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington Department of Psychology. He received a Bachelors and Masters degree in Biology and Cognitive Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002 and 2005). He then received a PhD in neuroscience from UC Berkeley (2010) and additional postdoctoral training in computational neuroimaging at Stanford (2011 – 2015). He was a Senior Data Scientist at the University of Washington eScience Institute (2015-2020), before joining the faculty of the Department of Psychology in 2020. His group (https://neuroinformatics.uw.edu/) develops computational tools to study the biological basis of brain function and applies them to a variety of research questions.
Dr. Nicole Errett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Her research interests and expertise are in the use of public policy to enhance health outcomes during and after disaster. Her commitment to community-relevant, translatable research is grounded in nearly a decade of practical experience in public health and healthcare emergency preparedness and management. She served as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Policy and Legislative Director at the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, and the Evaluation and Assessment Manager at the Northwest Healthcare Response Network.
Dr. Brandon Guthrie is an epidemiologist and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology at the University of Washington (UW). He has 10 years of experience conducting epidemiologic research on prospective cohorts and intervention trials involving people affected by HIV in Kenya, with a current focus on implementation science research and improving engagement in HIV/AIDS care. He has published manuscripts related to HIV treatment, transmission, and resistance among HIV-discordant couples, and presented at international HIV/AIDS conferences on topics including barriers to ART initiation. His current research focuses on a series of studies intended to improve engagement in HIV care following diagnosis using a combination of expedited CD4 testing and peer counseling to overcome barriers to linkage and retention in care. All of his research projects involve the use of eHealth tools to support data collection and/or as a component of an intervention. He is also a co-leader of the Global Health Data Toolkit Working Group to develop standardized surveys and data collection instruments, and an instructor for workshops and lectures on implementation of eHealth tools.
Jane M. Simoni, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and a Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She directs the Behavioral Science Core of the UW/Fred Hutch CFAR, where is the senior advisor to the eHealth Scientific Working Group. Her research has focused on behavioral aspects of HIV treatment, with NIMH-funded intervention studies in New York City, Seattle, the U.S.-Mexico border, China, and Kenya. The Chinese government has recognized her with a “High-End Foreign Expert” Award for 20015-2018. She has over 200 publications, and two of her medication adherence intervention strategies (peer support and electronic reminders) are included among those with “Good Evidence” in the CDC’s DEBI program for adherence interventions. Her collaborations include HIV treatment and other behavioral studies in the U.S. as well as Kenya, Rwanda, and South Africa. Formerly funded by a K24 award from NIMH, she is an active mentor of doctoral students and early career scientists, serving as primary mentor on several NRSA pre-doctoral and K series awards. Her current work aims to employ computer technology to enhance intervention impact and dissemination.
Daniel G. Brown (PhD in Geography, 1992, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is the Corkery Family Director and Professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington. His work, published in over 185 refereed articles, chapters, and proceedings papers, has aimed at understanding human- environment interactions through a focus on land-use and land-cover changes, through modeling these changes, and through spatial analysis and remote sensing methods for characterizing landscape patterns. Recent work has used agent-based and other spatial simulation models to understand and forecast landscape changes that have impacts on carbon storage and other ecosystem services, and human health and well-being. He has conducted field work on three different continents: North America, Asia, and Africa. He has chaired the Land Use Steering Group and Carbon Cycle Steering Group and was a lead coordinating author for the third National Climate Assessment, all under the auspices of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. In addition, he has served as a member of the NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Science Team, as panelist for the National Research Council, NASA, EPA, USDA Forest Service, the National Science Foundation, and the European Research Council, and on the Editorial Boards for Landscape Ecology, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, and the Journal of Land Use Science. In 2009 he
was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Alison Roxby MD, MSc is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Medicine and Global Health. She received her MD degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Master’s of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has worked in 5 different African countries to improve access to HIV care and prevent HIV transmission. Alison lived in Nairobi from 2009-2010, where she was a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow and served as the study physician for the Valacyclovir in Pregnancy trial. Alison currently holds an R01 award from NICHD entitled “Incident STIs in Kenyan Girls: a prospective cohort spanning sexual debut’, and an R21 award from NIAID entitled “DMPA use and vaginal bacterial diversity among African women.” Her research studies the interaction of contraceptives and sexually transmitted infections in women. She has been heavily involved in training grants to improve representation of African colleagues in research and leadership, including co-leading a Scientific Working Group and Early stage Investigator Mentoring group with the Center for AIDS Research. She also sees adult HIV patients at Madison Clinic and is the Clinic Director of the Roosevelt Virology Clinic at UWMC. In 2020, she began to work in COVID-19 studying key populations in the King County area, including residents of nursing facilities and the workers who care for them, and joined the Coronavirus Prevention Network (CoVPN) at Fred Hutch to help ensure adequate representation of key populations in Coronavirus prevention clinical trials.
Karin D. Martin is a crime policy specialist whose areas of expertise are monetary sanctions, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and decision-making in the criminal justice context. These issues come together in her current projects, which examine the use of money in punishment (e.g., fines, fees, restitution, etc.).
She is currently co-PI in a five-year research project examining the use of monetary sanctions in eight states and she has given testimony on the issue of criminal justice debt to the New York State Assembly and to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Karin studied Psychology at Stanford University and worked in the non-profit sector in the San Francisco Bay Area before attending University of California, Berkeley where she earned an MPP, an MA in Political Science, and a PhD in Public Policy. She was a post-doctoral scholar in the Psychology Department at UCLA where she was also a Fellow with the Center for Policing Equity. She was Assistant Professor of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2013-2017) and was a Visiting Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016.
Her work has appeared in Annual Review of Criminology, Social Issues and Policy Review, Law and Human Behavior, and Journal of Social and Political Psychology. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Research on Social Change at UC Berkeley, a Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellow, a National Science Foundation-funded Fellow in the Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) Program in Politics, Economics, Psychology, and Public Policy, and was a 2009 RAND Summer Associate.