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Specific areas of focus include substance use and abuse, teen pregnancy prevention, and sleep. She is Co-PI and Director of Community Engagement for the UT Community Engaged Texas Research Alliance, a ten-year grand challenge initiative seeking to revolutionize how we learn and share knowledge about individuals, families, and communities to improve population health.

Prior to joining UT, Dr. Maslowsky received a B.S. in Human Development and Psychological Services from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan, and completed postdoctoral training in Population Health with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dr. Maslowsky has been a member of IAPHS and has served continuously on IAPHS committees since the Association’s founding. Her service on the membership planning committee included helping to draft the Association’s membership and governance structures. She currently serves as a member of the editorial board for the IAPHS blog, where she solicits and contributes blog posts on population health. Dr. Maslowsky has attended every IAPHS annual meeting and organized research symposia at the 2016 and 2017 annual meetings. As a board member, she would be an active and enthusiastic contributor to IAPHS’ strategic vision as the Association grows. She is particularly interested in 1) helping the organization to meaningfully include a diverse membership and reach a diverse audience; 2) furthering the integration of researchers and policymakers in IAPHS to facilitate the use of rigorous evidence to inform policy.

Dr. Duncan work has an emphasis on minority health and health disparities, especially among sexual minority populations and in particular gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM). His research has a strong domestic (U.S.) focus, but recent work is beginning to span across the globe (including studies in Paris, London, Shanghai and Abu Dhabi). Methodologically, his research utilizes a geospatial lens to apply spatially explicit approaches such as computer-based geographic information systems (GIS), web-based geospatial technologies, real-time geospatial technologies, and geospatial modeling techniques. For instance, his work applies emerging geospatial technologies such as Global Positioning System (GPS) devices and smartphones to, in part; examine mobility and social networks in neighborhoods. His research and that of the field of spatial epidemiology is summarized in his forthcoming co-edited book Neighborhoods and Health (2nd edition) with Ichiro Kawachi (Oxford University Press, 2018). Dr. Duncan’s research appears in leading public health, medical, geography, criminology, and demography journals. He has over 100 publications and book chapters, and his research has appeared in major media outlets including the US News and World Report, The Washington Post, The New York Times and CNN. His work also extends out of the research world and into classrooms through invited talks, multiple guest lectures across institutions, and his courses including “Connecting Neighborhoods and Health: An Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology”—offered at NYU Abu Dhabi, and “Assessing Neighborhoods in Epidemiology”—offered at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Duncan’s recent work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Verizon Foundation, Aetna Foundation and HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN). He is an Associate Editor of Behavioral Medicine and is on the Editorial Board of Spatial Demography, Geospatial Health, the American Journal of Health Promotion, AIMS Public Health and the Journal of Public Health and Emergency. Dr. Duncan completed his doctorate and the Alonzo Smythe Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship, both in Social Epidemiology, at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Stacy is PI of the South Side Health and Vitality Studies, a community-engaged research effort, including CommunityRx, MAPSCorps and Feed1st. Catalyzed by a CMS Health Care Innovation Award (2012-15), CommunityRx is an HIT-based intervention that enables health care providers and others to match patients and others to community-based self-care resources. She leads an NIA-funded effort using agent-based modeling to study the multilevel impact of CommunityRx. A gynecologist, Stacy leads the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine for Women and Girls with Cancer and was founding chair of the Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer. She is also founder and PI of WomanLab, a dissemination science effort that aims to ensure all women have access to the best available evidence about preservation and recovery of sexual function in the context of cancer and other conditions. An alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Stacy served the National Advisory Committee. She is an Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow, founder and co-owner of a social enterprise, NowPow, LLC, and president of MAPSCorps, 501c3.