Andrew Fenelon, Co-Chair
Andrew Fenelon is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and a member of the Minnesota Population Center and Life Course Center. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Penn State. Fenelon is a sociologist and demographer studying social inequality in population health in the United States and the role of public policy. His current research focuses on US housing policy and its impacts on social inequalities in health. Specifically, he studies how public housing and housing choice voucher programs are related to physical and mental health, neighborhood attainment, and diabetes control, and considers how these programs might reduce racial/ethnic and economic disparities.

Katherine Keyes, Co-Chair
Katherine M. Keyes is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Katherine’s research focuses on psychiatric and substance use epidemiology across the lifecourse, including early origins of child and adult health and cross-generational cohort effects on substance use, mental health, and injury outcomes including suicide and overdose. She is particularly focused on methodological challenges in estimating age, period, and cohort effects, as well as using mathematical agent-based and other simulation models to inform public health and policy interventions. She is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and two textbooks published by Oxford University Press: “Epidemiology Matters: A New Introduction to Methodological Foundation”, published in 2014 and “Population Health Science” published in 2016.

Magdalena Cerda, Board Liasion
Magdalena Cerdá is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on lifecourse influences on substance use onset and continuity, the emergence of new drivers and forms of substance use, and the neighborhood causes and mental health consequences of violence. Dr. Cerdá has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to three chapters in major textbooks. She is the recipient of a NIDA K01 Award entitled “Trajectories of Substance Use and Comorbid Mental Illness.” Recent studies include an investigation of urban-rural differences in nonmedical prescription opioid abuse across California, and a simulation of the potential impact that investment in access to individualized treatment versus investment in neighborhood-level preventive interventions could have on the rates of mental illness in New York City.

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