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Those continuing on the Board during 2025 and their 2025 positions include Philip Alberti (Past-President), Jennifer Karas Montez (President), Suzanne Bevan (Executive Director), Board members Bettina Beech, William Story, Alicia Riley, Megan Todd, Sarah Gollust, and Silvia Martins.

Thanks to Past President Magdalena Cerda, who chaired the Nominations Committee, Nominations Committee Members, and a special thanks to our candidates for their willingness to serve IAPHS

PRESIDENT-ELECT

This person will serve as the President-Elect in 2027, President in 2028 and Past-President in 2029. In 2028, they will appoint individual(s) to chair the 2028 Program Committee as well as other new members of IAPHS committees in 2028.

Stephen E. Gilman, ScD

AFFILIATION:
Social and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Division of Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

DISCIPLINE:
Social Epidemiology

Catherine K. Ettman, PhD

AFFILIATION:
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

DISCIPLINE:
Health services research

Bio / Candidate Statement:

Professional Biography: Stephen E. Gilman, ScD, is a social epidemiologist whose research examines the role of the early environment in shaping long-term health outcomes and in understanding how socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in health become embodied early in the life course, sustained into adulthood, and transmitted across generations. Dr. Gilman’s research focuses on both healthy and abnormal child development, environmental factors across the life course at multiple levels of analysis (individual, family, and neighborhood), associated biomarkers of exposure and impact, and long-term outcomes with an emphasis on mental health and mental disorders. Dr. Gilman’s research demonstrates the importance of the childhood environment for neurodevelopment and the role that the environment has on disparities starting in the prenatal period. Inspired by the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease and Life Course Epidemiology movements, Dr. Gilman’s work adopts multi-disciplinary approaches in diverse populations to advance knowledge of the social determinants of child health and human development beginning with the prenatal period. He is PI of the Erie-Niagara & Rhode Island Children’s Health, Equity & Development Study (ENRICHED), which is investigating the prenatal origins of socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in maternal and paternal health during pregnancy and children’s health during the first year of life. Read more

Dr. Gilman received his Doctor of Science degree in Health and Social Behavior from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and post-doctoral training in Behavioral Medicine from Brown Medical School. He is a Senior Investigator in the Intramural Research Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, where he is Chief of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Branch, and Acting Chief of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch, within the Division of Population Health Research; he is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2025, he served as President of the American Psychopathological Association.

IAPHS Vision: The IAPHS has an incredible energy about it, and I suspect that is because its mission (“to connect population health scientists across disciplines”) resonates at the core of what attracts many of us to the organization – that impactful population science is a community-wide effort that cannot succeed within a single silo. Yet most of our training is “single-disciplinary,” and career advancement requires identifiable contributions to that discipline. We all recognize that bridging across disciplines is essential for outstanding population science and for translation that has the potential to make a real difference. So, to confess a challenge of interdisciplinary research – sometimes it feels very uncomfortable. I have been grateful to IAPHS for providing a forum where this and many other interdisciplinary challenges can be addressed, and it would be an honor to contribute to IAPHS’ leadership.

One possible conference theme that I would particularly like to explore with the IAPHS board and program committee is the interconnection between big “D” development – social, economic, and health development of communities and nations – and developmental science, as in human development. Both demand investments now for long-term results (or consequences), often straining political will; both present exciting challenges for study design, inference, and translation; and both are integral to population health.

Richard Carpiano's Candidate Statement:

I am honored to be asked to run for President of IAPHS. As a member since its founding, I have witnessed IAPHS’ exciting growth and evolution as an important and unique professional community for the intersections of research, policy, and practice focused on the many pressing population health issues facing the US and the globe. Over this time, I have contributed to IAPHS through a variety of roles, including Board and Award Committee memberships, session organizer, blog co-author, mentoring program participant (as a mentor), and as a panelist or facilitator for professional development activities.

I am a professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside, where I also serve as the Faculty Director of the Science to Policy (S2P) program. I trained in medical sociology, public and population health and my research and policy-centered activities focus heavily on social determinants of health across numerous countries and populations, vaccination uptake and policy, misinformation, anti-science activism, and pandemic preparedness and resilience. Furthermore, I have long viewed public outreach as an important facet of my job and thus actively engage with journalists and the public through various activities, including news interviews, op-eds, non-academic panels and presentations, and social media. Read more

BOARD MEMBERS

The Board provides oversight and strategic guidance to IAPHS. It meets by conference calls throughout the year and in-person just before the annual IAPHS Conference. The three Board Members elected this year will serve 3 year terms beginning November 1, 2025.

BOARD MEMBER – JUNIOR

Catherine K. Ettman, PhD

AFFILIATION:
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

DISCIPLINE:
Health services research

Rebekah Israel Cross, PhD, MA

AFFILIATION:

University of Chicago Department of Public Health Sciences

DISCIPLINE:

unDisciplined

Bio / Candidate Statement:

Dr. Catherine K. Ettman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work explores population mental health, assets that shape mental health and health services use, and policies across sectors that can improve health. She is the co-editor ofUrban Health (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Migration and Health (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Dr. Ettman received her PhD in Health Services Research at Brown University School of Public Health and studied public policy at Princeton University. She has worked in campaign politics and in academic administrative leadership. Dr. Ettman would look forward to serving IAPHS and thinking strategically about the future of population health science.

Bio / Candidate Statement:

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. I direct the Radical Health Justice Lab in which I collaborate with seven student researchers to examine the root causes of health inequities and work creatively with community members to design, implement, and evaluate solutions.

I have a PhD in Community Health Sciences with a minor in Urban Planning, an MA in Sociology, and a BA in Political Science. I consider myself anundisciplined social scientist and this informs my critical approach to research. My work, which centers on health and social justice, has three stands. First, I study the relationship between housing and health. Second, I’m interested in understanding how and when structural interventions alleviate disparities in maternal and child health. And third, I explore how the field of public health (un)intentionally reinforces inequalities. Read more

Prior to my doctoral training, I worked at the Black AIDS Institute where I trained over 1500 public health workforce members on biomedical interventions to improve outcomes for Black people living with HIV. Working with marginalized communities across the country, I gained the perspective that racial health inequities are driven by social systems not behavioral choices. This led me to pursue doctoral training in measuring the health implications of inequality. While a doctoral student at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, I helped launch the first academic research center explicitly focused on racism and health.

My work has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development and has been published in Social Science and Medicine, The Lancet Regional Health–Americas, Journal of Urban Health, and Housing Policy Debate.

I live in Chicago with my partner, two daughters, and French bulldog, Nova.

BOARD MEMBER – MID-CAREER

Atheendar S. Venkataramani, MD, PhD

AFFILIATION:
University of Pennsylvania

DISCIPLINE:
Health Economics, Internal Medicine

Lauren Gaydosh, PhD

AFFILIATION:

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DISCIPLINE:
Sociology and Demography

Bio / Candidate Statement:

I am a practicing physician and Associate Professor of Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and founding director of Opportunity for Health. My research examines how people’s social and economic opportunities affect their health and well-being. This is a broad question, and to tackle it I investigate a range of different settings, exposures, and policies. My research leans on interdisciplinary tools and insights. IAPHS has been a wonderful professional home for me. I truly believe in the organization’s potential to meaningfully shape population health science and policy. If elected to the Board, I will bring my perspective a social scientist and physician working with academic, policy, and industry partners to further IAPHS’ impact.

Bio / Candidate Statement:

Dr. Gaydosh’s research focuses on better understanding the role of early life environments in shaping health across the life course. This work integrates social, contextual, and biological data from population-based longitudinal studies to examine how inequalities in the social environment produce health disparities. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the US Fulbright Program, and was the recipient of the 2025 Millbank Quarterly IAPHS Early Career Award. She received her PhD in Sociology, Demography, and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2015. Dr. Gaydosh currently serves as the Co-Director of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.

BOARD MEMBER – SENIOR

Tara McKay, PhD

AFFILIATION:
Vanderbilt University

DISCIPLINE:
Sociology

Lauren Gaydosh, PhD

AFFILIATION:

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DISCIPLINE:
Sociology and Demography

Bio / Candidate Statement:

I am honored to be a candidate for the Board of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. As a sociologist whose work sits at the intersection of population health, social policy, and health equity, IAPHS represents exactly the kind of boundary-crossing community I believe our field needs more of, and I am eager to contribute to its leadership.

My research is fundamentally interdisciplinary and examines how social and policy contexts shape health over the life course, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ populations, structural stigma, and the accumulation of health-relevant exposures across time. This work has required me to build bridges: between sociology and medicine, between qualitative insight and population-level data, and between academic research and policy audiences.

To the board I would bring a commitment to health equity research, experience building interdisciplinary research communities, and a track record of translating science into policy-relevant products. I am particularly invested in supporting early-career scholars doing this kind of work, and in ensuring that population health science remains engaged with the communities it studies.

Bio

Tara McKay, PhD (she/her) is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society and the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University. She is Director of the Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab, winner of the 2024 NIH DEIA Prize, and Interim Director of the Center for Research on Inequality and Health. Her research examines social and policy determinants of health and aging among LGBTQ+ populations. She is PI of QSNAPS, a longitudinal study of health, aging, and social networks among older LGBTQ+ adults, and has received over $10 million in NIH funding as PI.

Theresa Osypuk's Candidate Statement:

Theresa L. Osypuk, ScD, ScM, is Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health, at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where she is also the Director of the Minnesota Population Center, and Co-Director of the Population Health Science Training Program. Dr. Osypuk is a social epidemiologist, demographer, and population health scholar. Her research examines why place and social policy influence population health. She studies the influence of neighborhood context, segregation, and social and economic policies implemented outside of the health sector, for their effects on population health across the life course. Read more

Dr. Osypuk is currently the principal investigator of several NIH grants, including to investigate how Housing Choice Vouchers (the largest federal affordable housing policy in the U.S.) and neighborhood context influence the health of families. She has authored and coauthored over 100 scientific articles, reports, and chapters, in leading medical, epidemiology, social epidemiology, demography, urban health, housing, and population health scientific outlets. She has also collaborated on applied projects, including to translate social determinants of health research for policy makers and advocates, to stimulate policy to improve the context and life chances of children and families, emphasizing equity and diversity. She earned her masters and doctoral degrees in Social Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health, and trained in Population Health as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Osypuk is passionate about population health. She is well positioned to represent the IAPHS organization to promote population health research. She promotes population health through her current leadership positions, including as an NICHD-funded Population Center Director, and as a Training Director of a Population Health training program of PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows, as the Secretary of the Association of Population Centers (APC, Jan 2025-Dec 2026), and as a member of the board of the Government and Public Affairs Committee which is comprised of APC and Population of America Association (PAA) leadership, who advocate for population health science, to government agencies. She has been active member of IAPHS since 2019, and has served in IAPHS on the Nominations Committee (2024), and as the IAPHS Program Chair (2018-2019). As the 2019 Program Chair, she was influential in rethinking the structure of the meeting program early in IAPHS’s lifecourse. For example, she advocated to restructure the meeting to allow submitting stand-alone abstracts (rather than organizing the meeting around group-based sessions) which was important to promote equity among less socially-connected members; and to restructure the poster sessions to facilitate professional networking. Dr. Osypuk attends the IAPHS annual meeting nearly every year, and supports a contingent of enthusiastic University of Minnesota population health trainees and faculty to attend, as well. IAPHS has become her favorite professional meeting, and she would be honored to represent the membership on the Board.

Elections

PRESIDENT-ELECT

This person will serve as the President-Elect in 2027, President in 2028 and Past-President in 2029. In 2028, they will appoint individual(s) to chair the 2028 Program Committee as well as other new members of IAPHS committees in 2028.

Bio / Candidate Statement:

Richard Carpiano's Candidate Statement:

BOARD MEMBERS

The Board provides oversight and strategic guidance to IAPHS. It meets by conference calls throughout the year and in-person just before the annual IAPHS Conference. The three Board Members elected this year will serve 3 year terms beginning November 1, 2025.

BOARD MEMBER – JUNIOR

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BOARD MEMBER – MID-CAREER

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BOARD MEMBER – SENIOR

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Theresa Osypuk's Candidate Statement: