Stipica Mudrazija is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. He studies issues related to population aging, intergenerational support, and health and wellbeing of older adults in the United States and internationally, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies, as well as major foundations and philanthropic organizations. It has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes and featured in media outlets including CNBC, Daily Mail, The Economist, Forbes, Reuters, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
Prior to joining the University of Washington, Dr. Mudrazija was a Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the University of Southern California. Dr. Mudrazija holds a doctorate in public policy from The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a graduate research trainee in the Population Research Center, a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Zagreb.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at University of California Santa Cruz. I am broadly interested in statistical methods and tools to address scientific questions in demography, epidemiology, and global health. Currently I work on latent variable modeling in messy, high-dimensional data, space-time models, causal inference, and applications in health data science.
I was previously a postdoctoral researcher working with Forrest Crawford in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington, advised by Tyler McCormick.
Kaori Fujishiro, PhD, is a Senior Research Epidemiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As a social epidemiologist in an agency dedicated to improving working people’s health, Kaori has done extensive research on the role work plays in creating health inequalities. Her position at NIOSH has afforded her a unique vantage point for seeing the great potential in linking population health science and occupational health science, two lines of research that so far have developed separately. Because work is governed by existing regulatory structures, research on health and health equity that focuses on work could produce directly actionable knowledge. This direction will be most fruitful if researchers examine the quality of work, not just the presence or absence of work, and interrogate how the quality of work is determined and distributed in society. Through her research, mentoring, and leadership opportunities, Kaori promotes the perspective of work as a structural determinant of health.
Kathryn is an environmental sociologist whose research examines how environmental hazards influence migration patterns, housing access, and the built environment, with a special focus on wildfires. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Sociology.
I study stratification in education and in the labor market. Some of my current work looks at the potential of school choice policies to attenuate or exacerbate patterns of inequality and segregation in urban public education systems. I am also interested in students’ nontraditional pathways to and through postsecondary education, including a focus on older adults who return to school. Additional projects examine the implications of workplace institutions and practices — including unions and policies barring workers from discussing their earnings with their colleagues — for workers’ wages.
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario (in Canada). I earned my PhD in sociology from the University of Washington and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.
James Pfeiffer PhD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Global Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology. Dr. Pfeiffer is the director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Department of Global Health. He is also Executive Director of Health Alliance International (HAI), a non-profit based in Seattle affiliated with the Department of Global Health at UW, where he oversees health system strengthening projects in Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Timor Leste. Dr. Pfeiffer earned his PhD in Anthropology and his MPH at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has 30 years of research experience in implementation science, medical anthropology, and public health in Africa.
Dr. Chiyoung Lee obtained her BSN (2013) and MSN (2017) from Seoul National University. Upon graduation from the BSN program, she worked as a nurse in Emergency Department and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Samsung Medical Center in South Korea (2013-2017). After a master’s degree, she served as a clinical lecturer and researcher at Seoul National University College of Nursing. She came to the United States to continue her study and earned a PhD in nursing (2020) from Duke University School of Nursing.
During her academic career, Dr. Lee has been interested in conducting health disparities research for vulnerable and minority populations. Highlights from her relevant skills, experience, and studies include: a diverse set of statistical tools and analytic techniques for exploring health disparities; methodological and theoretical foundation in disparities research, particularly among older adults; and national health surveys, lifespan developmental research, systematic review, and experimental design on reporting health disparities.