Mentoring Roundtables – IAPHS – Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science

2024 MENTORING ROUNDTABLES

Date: September 11, 2024, 12:15PM-1:15PM

Mentoring Roundtables will be held at the Conference Hotel. Each table will be hosted by a Mentor with 8-10 registered Mentees to engage in an informal discussion. Lunch is included in the session. Each participant is required to pay a $25 fee to cover the cost of the lunch. Pre-registration is required to participate.

2024 MENTORS

REGISTRATION

Roundtable Topic: Strategies to bridge and build interdisciplinary research (vocabularies, methodologies, silos)

Roland Thorpe

Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society (HBS), Founding Director of the Program on Research for Men’s Health in the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS), Deputy Director of the HCHDS, and Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center for Minority Aging. Read more

Roundtable Topic: Considering non-academic careers (is a non-academic career right for me?)

Philip Alberti

As the Founding Director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice and Senior Director, Health Equity Research & Policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Philip sparks, supports, and contributes to community-driven, multi-sector efforts that build evidence for programs, policies, practices, and partnerships that eliminate health inequities. Read more

Roundtable Topic: Thinking with the end in mind: navigating your PhD program for a strong future career

Ryan Suk

Dr. Ryan Suk (pronunciation: Rye-un Sook; pronouns: she/they) is an Assistant Professor at Emory University, jointly appointed at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and the Department of Health Policy and Management of Rollins School of Public Health. Read more

Roundtable Topic: Navigating the job market (knowing, communicating, and advocating for your value)

Quinn Valier

Research Associate Professor for UH Population Health and the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine and Director of Student Engagement for UH Population Health, University of Houston Read more

Roundtable Topic: What I wish I would have known in my first year of a tenure-track position (grants, teaching, publishing, managing people)

Patricia Homan

Patricia Homan is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives for the Public Health Program at Florida State University. Read more

Roundtable Topic: How to build a funded portfolio: considering the art of grant writing and funding strategies

Claire Kamp Dush

Claire Kamp Dush is Professor in the Department of Sociology and at the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She leads the Development Core of the MPC which means that part of her position is helping junior scholars learn how to write NIH grants. She is in her fourth year as a standing member of the NIH Center for Scientific Review Social Sciences and Population Studies study section. She is a family demographer with interdisciplinary training in human development and family studies. Read more

Roundtable Topic: Making your research make a difference: driving impact with credibility and trustworthiness

Richard Carpiano

Richard M. Carpiano is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside and Faculty Director of the UCR Science to Policy (S2P) Program. A public and population health scientist and medical sociologist by training, Dr. Carpiano studies how social factors contribute to the health of adults and children, including health inequities. Read more

Roundtable Topic: Conducting research in an uncertain political landscape (implications for funding, dissemination, partnerships, etc.).

Mark Hayward

Mark D. Hayward is a professor of sociology, a Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts, and a faculty research associate of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas. Read more

Hayward is a health demographer and population health scientist with a long history of NIA and NICHD research grants supporting his research program. Currently, his work is focusing on two major questions: 1) “upstream institutional levers” of adult mortality trends and disparities, and 2) early life developmental origins of cognitive health and dementia in the older population. Hayward is a recipient of the Matilda White Riley Award from the National Institutes of Health for his contributions to behavioral and social scientific knowledge relevant to mission of NIH. He has served on a number of scientific advisory boards including, for example, the Committee on Population (NASEM), a National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health, and the Board of Scientific Counselors (National Center for Health Statistics). Hayward has held a number of major elected roles in his professional societies (e.g., President of the Southern Demographic Society and chair of the ASA sections on Aging and the Life Course and Sociology of Population). Currently, he is a member of an NASEM Study Committee developing a Decadal Report on the value of social science research for investigating Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias. He also is the current editor of his field’s major journal, Demography.

Hayward is a committed teacher and mentor. His teaching interests focus on population health and health disparities and survival models. Hayward has mentored numerous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have gone on to distinguished careers both at major universities as well as federal agencies. He also has served as the faculty mentor for junior scientists supported by NIH-career development awards. His faculty mentees have been from several disciplines including human development, psychology and sociology. Hayward recently received the “Outstanding Mentor Award” from the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association.

Hayward received his PhD in sociology in 1981 from Indiana University and his undergraduate degree in sociology in 1975 from Washington State University.

Roundtable Topic: Mentoring for the mentors: building your skills to better guide your students pursuing non-academic careers

Megan Todd

Dr. Todd is a demographer and social epidemiologist who most recently served as the Director of the Data Lab for the Health Department’s Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. Read more