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Those continuing on the Board during 2027 and their 2027 positions include Jennifer Karas Montez (Past-President), Marino Bruce (President), Suzanne Bevan (Executive Director), Arinala Randrianasolo (Student Rep). Board members Bettina Beech, William Story, Alicia Riley, Rita Hamad, Theresa Osypuk, and Mathew Kiang.

Thanks to Past President Philip Alberti, 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

Darrell Hudson, PhD, MPH

AFFILIATION:
James S. Jackson Collegiate Professor and Chair, Department of Health Behavior & Health Equity, University of Michigan School of Public Health

DISCIPLINE:
Health Behavior & Health Equity

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.

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.

Bio / Candidate Statement:

Biosketch: Darrell Hudson, PhD, MPH is the James S. Jackson Collegiate Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Prior to his appointment at Michigan, he was Professor of Public Health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and Director for the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Washington University.

Dr. Hudson’s career is dedicated to the elimination of racial/ethnic inequities in health. His research agenda centers on how social determinants of health, particularly racism, affect multiple health outcomes. Dr. Hudson is also striving to develop researchers and professionals who are both well trained and passionate about achieving health equity.Dr. Hudson’s research program includes studies that have examined racial/ethnic differences in depression, including the effects of socioeconomic position, racial discrimination, and coping behaviors on depression. His current work focuses on the investigation of how the process of upward social mobility affects the health and well-being of Black Americans. He is also investigating the integration of mental and physical health using a life course, stress framework. Dr. Hudson has been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Foundation for Barnes Jewish Hospital, and the Missouri Foundation for Health. Currently, his research is supported by the National Institute on Aging, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Hudson completed his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he also received his MPH. He earned a BA in Psychology from Morehouse College. Prior to his faculty appointment, Dr. Hudson completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Kellogg Health Scholars Program at the University of California at the San Francisco and Berkeley campuses, where he conducted research and gained additional training in social epidemiology.

Candidate Statement:

IAPHS is an essential space for collective work toward a healthier, more equitable future. It would be a privilege to serve as President and to help strengthen our community, amplify our science, and translate evidence into meaningful change. As Board President, I will work to expand and diversify IAPHS membership, sustain the excellence of our annual meetings while strengthening year-round professional support, cultivate the next generation of population health scholars, and advance equity through collective, interdisciplinary action.

Mission and Vision

My career has focused on a simple but ambitious goal: eliminating racial and ethnic health inequities by dismantling the systemic barriers that produce unequal outcomes across race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other dimensions of disadvantage in the United States. Achieving this goal requires more than individual scholarship—it requires collective impact and interdisciplinary collaboration. As Board President, I would lead with the conviction that IAPHS is uniquely positioned to connect rigorous population health science with action that advances equity.

Leadership and Institutional Impact

In addition to scholarship and teaching, I bring leadership experience from complex institutional environments. I currently serve as Chair of the Department of Health Behavior & Health Equity at the University of Michigan. In two years as chair, I have:

Helped the department articulate a clear and ambitious vision for health equity
Increased transparency and strengthened internal communication
Developed new engagement strategies to elevate visibility and connect with key stakeholders
Recruited new faculty, strengthening departmental excellence
Launched a mentored research development program for MPH students
Established a national social and behavioral science chair network—the first of its kind

Prior to Michigan, I served as Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity (CRE2) at Washington University in St. Louis, a university-wide interdisciplinary center focused on equity. In that role, I managed funding and professional development for faculty and students, led cross-unit faculty recruitment efforts, and advanced equity-centered work through authentic community partnerships.

Service to IAPHS

My commitment to IAPHS runs deep. I served on the Board of Directors for three years and was Communications Co-Chair during the COVID-19 pandemic. During that time, I co-developed and co-hosted the Sick Individuals/Sick Populations podcast to translate population health science for broader audiences. Receiving the Ida B. Wells Public Engagement Award further underscores my commitment to public-facing scholarship in service of health equity.

Leadership Philosophy

I am committed to transparent, constructive leadership and to finding creative solutions when resources are limited. I work to build consensus when possible and to make principled decisions when consensus cannot be reached—always centering the shared goals and values that unite the organization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tara McKay, PhD

AFFILIATION:
Vanderbilt University

DISCIPLINE:
Sociology

David F. Warner, PhD

AFFILIATION:
University of Alabama Birmingham

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.

Bio / Candidate Statement:

I am honored to run for the Board of IAPHS and welcome the opportunity to contribute to our organization’s continued growth.

As a social demographer, my research focuses on understanding the development of health across the life course with attention to variation by marital status, gender, and race/ethnicity. I am particularly interested in how social relationships shape health outcomes. My scholarship spans multiple disciplines—including medical sociology, gerontology, human development, family studies, and health services research.

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.

Stephen E. Gilman, ScD

Darrell Hudson, PhD, MPH

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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

Rebekah Israel Cross, PhD, MA

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BOARD MEMBER – MID-CAREER

Atheendar S. Venkataramani, MD, PhD

Lauren Gaydosh, PhD

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BOARD MEMBER – SENIOR

Tara McKay, PhD

David F. Warner, PhD

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