Appendix D
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Sue Curry, Ph.D. (Chair) is emeritus dean and distinguished professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy of the University of Iowa College of Public Health. Previously, Dr. Curry served as director of the Center for Health Studies at Group Health Cooperative where she conducted an extensive portfolio of health system research in chronic disease prevention and management. Dr. Curry is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). She is an elected member of the NAM Governing Council and serves on the Council’s Executive Committee. She is also a member of the Governing Board of the National Research Council. She received her graduate training at the University of New Hampshire and completed post-doctoral work at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Curry served on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force from 2009 to 2019 and served as chair of the task force from 2018 to 2019. She was chair of the task force when it released its 2018 recommendations for intimate partner violence screening. Other completed professional activities include service as vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Truth Initiative (formerly the American Legacy Foundation), member of the Board of Scientific Advisors for the National Cancer Institute, and member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She is a fellow of both the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the American Psychological Association.
Sue Anne Bell, Ph.D., FNP-BC, FAAN, is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, with expertise in disaster
preparedness and response, women’s health, and emergency care. Trained as a health services researcher, her work focuses on the health and well-being of vulnerable and at-risk populations in the context of disasters and public health emergencies. She has been active in numerous activities at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; as a member of the Committee on Best Practices in Assessing Mortality and Significant Morbidity Following Large-Scale Disasters, as an invited panelist at the Climate Change and Human Health Meeting of Experts, as an invited speaker at the Emerging Leaders Forum, and as a co-author on Rapid Expert Consultation on Understanding Causes of Healthcare Deaths Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic (December 10, 2020). She is currently serving a second 3-year term on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Advisory Council. She also serves on the National Advisory Committee for Seniors and Disasters at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is a member of the Expert Panel on Environmental and Public Health at the American Academy of Nursing. Her original training is as a family nurse practitioner, and she is clinically active in disaster response through the HHS National Disaster Medical System with over a dozen deployments, including for the COVID-19 pandemic, Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and the 2018 Paradise, California wildfire.
Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Ph.D., is a professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She has published more than 300 articles and 7 books and has been principal investigator of more than 15 major National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and National Institute of Justice grants in her decades of advocacy policy work collaborating with domestic violence survivors, advocates, health care professionals, and marginalized communities. She is particularly known for her research on domestic violence homicide and the development and validation of the Danger Assessment that helps intimate partner violence survivors more accurately assess their risk of being killed or almost killed by their abusive partner that is used widely in the United States and globally. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, is on the Board of Futures Without Violence and was on the boards of four domestic violence shelters. She has consulted for the Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, NIH, World Health Organization, the Office on Violence Against Women, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and multiple advocacy organizations on the intersection of gender-based violence and physical and mental health outcomes. Dr. Campbell is a member of the American Academy of Nursing Violence Expert Panel. Dr. Campbell has received numerous awards for her research and has served on three National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees as
well as been the co-chair of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)/NAM Forum for Global Violence Prevention.
Regardt Jacobus Ferreira, Ph.D., is the director of Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy and an associate professor at the Tulane School of Social Work. His main research interest is at the intersection of disaster, climate change, resilience and behavioral health with an emphasis on interpersonal violence; with work conducted in Europe, Africa, North America, the Caribbean and South Asia. His interdisciplinary work includes more than 100 published journal articles, chapters, and scientific abstracts on a variety of trauma, climate change and resilience topics. Dr. Ferreira’s work has been recognized with several top teaching awards for his innovative and engaging approaches to teaching and community engagement. He was previously chair for the Disaster and Traumatic Stress Track with the Council for Social Work Education and currently serves as the founding convener of the Climate and Disaster Research Special Interest Group with the Society for Social Work Research. He received his undergraduate degree (BSW) in social work and master’s degree in disaster risk management (cum laude) at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and his Ph.D. in social work (Dean citation) from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Francisco Garcia, M.D., M.P.H., is the director and chief medical officer of the Pima County Department of Health in Tucson, Arizona. Dr Garcia is an experienced administrator, highly regarded physician executive, and internationally recognized expert in public health emergency preparedness, border health, and women’s reproductive health. Before entering government, Dr. Garcia achieved the rank of tenured Distinguished Outreach Professor of Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arizona. There, he served in a variety of leadership roles including as director of the Hispanic Center of Excellence, the Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, and the Cancer Disparities Institute of the Arizona Cancer Center. Dr. Garcia’s previous National Academies service includes membership on the Committee on Evidence-Based Practices for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, the Roundtable on Health Equity, and the Committee on Preventive Services for Women. He also previously served as a member of the Women’s Preventive Services Taskforce.
Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, Ph.D., M.P.H., RN, FAAN, is an associate professor at Duke University School of Nursing and assistant dean of the Ph.D. Program in Nursing. Her research describes the intersection of intimate partner violence, substance abuse, HIV, and mental health among Latinos in the United States and the development of multi-level
interventions to address these. She uses a syndemic orientation, mixed methods, and community engaged strategies to influence practice and policy changes to promote health equity for Latinos, survivors of intimate partner violence, and other historically marginalized populations. Dr. Gonzalez-Guarda serves on local and national organizations influencing services and policies addressing violence, abuse, mental health, and health equity for Latinos, including serving as the chair of the Board of Directors of El Futuro, a community-based mental service organization serving Spanish-speaking and uninsured immigrants in North Carolina. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Esperanza United, a National Technical Assistance provider for community-based organizations addressing Latino and immigrant families affected by violence, and a member of the executive team of LATIN-19 (Latinx Advocacy and Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19), a local multisector coalition influencing systems change for Latinx inclusion. She also served as a previous chair of the Violence Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Gonzalez-Guarda was a member of the IOM committee that produced the landmark Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010) report and has led various local and national initiatives to promote health equity research careers for populations systemically excluded from health professions. Dr. Gonzalez-Guarda has interdisciplinary training in nursing, public health, and psychology and is a fellow of the Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) Minority Fellowship Program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program.
Elizabeth Miller, M.D., Ph.D., FSAHM, is Distinguished Professor of pediatrics, public health, and clinical and translational science and medical director of community and population health at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Trained in internal medicine and pediatrics and medical anthropology, she has more than 20 years of practice and research experience in addressing intimate partner and sexual violence prevention and health equity in clinical and community settings, with funding from National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Institute of Justice, Office on Women’s Health, and other foundations. Dr. Miller is recognized for her expertise in partner and sexual violence research as well as clinical care; she contributes to content on sexual and partner violence for a medical resource for health professionals called UpToDate. She has conducted numerous randomized controlled trials to evaluate clinical and community partnered interventions. She has more than 330 peer reviewed research publications, and has authored numerous book chapters, commentaries, and clinical guidelines. She serves as faculty for Health Partners on IPV and Exploitation, a Health
Resources and Services Administration–supported National Training and Technical Assistance Center program led by Futures Without Violence. She has served as a lead investigator on a collaborative project with the American Academy of Pediatrics, CDC, Futures Without Violence, and researchers at University of Pittsburgh on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on survivors of partner violence and their children.
Mona Mittal, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Family Science, School of Public Health, at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. She is core faculty for the UMD Center for Healthy Families, and provides mental health services to individuals, couples, and families. She is an affiliate faculty member for the UMD Prevention Research Center, where she focuses on LGBTQ+ mental health. Lastly, she is also an affiliate faculty member at the Maryland Population Research Center, wherein she produces and promotes population-related research. Dr. Mittal is engaged in prevention and intervention research focused on mental health and traumatic stress, particularly intimate partner violence, and sexual and reproductive health outcomes among populations that experience health inequities. Dr. Mittal has received National Institutes of Health funding to develop and test integrated interventions to reduce interpersonal violence and HIV risk among women of color and heterosexual African American couples. In addition, Dr. Mittal is collaborating with U.S. and international researchers to further her program of research and promote capacity building in traumatic stress, particularly intimate partner violence. Dr. Mittal serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. She is also a board member of the Network for Victim Recovery of DC. She earned her Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from Texas Tech University and a master’s degree in clinical investigation from the University of Rochester.
Heidi Nelson, M.D., M.P.H., MACP, FRCP, is a professor of health systems science at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Pasadena, California. Previous positions include professor of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology and medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), investigator at the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center, and medical director for women and children’s programs at Providence Health and Services in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Nelson’s research focuses on clinical epidemiology, women’s health, and health care guidelines and delivery. She has led nearly 100 evidence reviews for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Veterans Administration, and the Health Resources and Services Administration–sponsored Women’s Preventive Services Initiative. Her work has been used to determine national clinical
practice guidelines and coverage, including screening for intimate partner violence, affecting millions of Americans, particularly women. Dr. Nelson is board certified in internal medicine. She completed her degrees at the University of Minnesota, residency at OHSU, and fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Nelson was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Preventative Services for Women that identified services to be covered under the prevention care mandate of the Affordable Care Act in 2011.
Usha Ranji, M.S., is the associate director for women’s health policy at KFF. Her work addresses the impact of major health policy issues on women and girls, with an emphasis on insurance coverage, access to care, and low-income populations. Ranji has led several analyses and written a number of major reports, including findings from national surveys of women on health care utilization and spending, state-level policies on Medicaid coverage of family planning and perinatal services, and the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on access to reproductive health services. Ms. Ranji has helped develop several interactive tools available through KFF, including a tracker that summarizes the preventive services recommendations covered by insurance plans as a result of the ACA, such as screening for interpersonal violence. In addition to her work at KFF, Ms. Ranji has published in the peer reviewed literature and speaks extensively on women’s coverage, maternity care, and the impact of the ACA to national and local groups. She is a member of advisory committees for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative and the California Breast Cancer Research Program.
Merritt D. Schreiber, Ph.D., is a professor of clinical pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Medical Center Lundquist Institute, and a senior advisor for the Terrorism and Disaster Program, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He serves as lead for the Mental Health Workgroup for the Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management and is the chair of disaster response for the California Psychological Association (CPA). Dr. Schreiber’s work focuses on developing population-level models of a “stepped continuum of mental health care” (e.g., mental health “first aid”) in mass-casualty disasters and other traumatic incidents. He also works on enhancing resilience and response of emergency disaster medical workers, pre-hospital first responders, and others, using an evidence-based model. As a result of this work, Dr. Schreiber has developed varied tools and a pediatric disaster mental health concept of operations designed to provide population-level response tactics to all-hazard events impacting children, youth, and families. This includes the PsySTART Mental Health Incident Management System
and a stepped “triage to care” of at-risk pediatric patients and emergency medical responders. He is also the developer of “Anticipate, Plan and Deter,” a disaster medical provider resilience system and “Listen, protect, and connect,” family-to-family Psychological First Aid. Dr. Schreiber received the Joint Meritorious Service Medal serving as Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service Reserve Officer on detached service to North American Aerospace Defense Command-U.S. Northern Command, the APA Presidential Citation for 9/11 response, and the CPA Distinguished Humanitarian Award. He previously served on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary’s Advisory Board on Emergency Public Information and Communications. He deployed for HHS to Miramar for the COVID-19 response effort. He recently received the HHS Civilian Coronavirus Response Medal for his deployments in support of National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) response to COVID-19 at Marine Air Corps Station Miramar and two other deployments in support of returning NDMS teams in COVID-19 and Hurricane Ian.
Jamila K. Stockman, Ph.D., is professor and vice chief in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Stockman is also co-director of the Health Equity Sociobehavioral Science Core within the San Diego Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Stockman is an infectious disease epidemiologist also trained in qualitative, mixed methods, and intervention research. For the past 15 years, Dr. Stockman has conducted observational intervention research studies addressing the co-occurrence of HIV, gender-based violence, substance use, mental health, and underlying social and structural factors (e.g., discrimination, medical mistrust) affecting socially marginalized populations. Her research is conducted in the U.S., U.S.-Mexico border region, Latin America, and Caribbean. Dr. Stockman’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the California HIV/AIDS Research Program, garnering more than 90 peer-reviewed papers. In addition to her research, Dr. Stockman actively collaborates with local public health departments and community-based organizations to ensure ethical and cultural appropriateness of her research among members of the community. In 2015, Dr. Stockman received the Linda E. Saltzman Award for her accomplishments in the field of domestic violence research.
Mitch Stripling, M.P.A., is the founding director of the New York City Pandemic Response Institute, a resource supporting New York City agencies, organizations, and communities to prepare and respond to critical public health crises. Formerly, he was the national director of preparedness and response for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where he directed that organization’s COVID-19 response and supporting sexual
and reproductive health access initiatives. He has also served as an assistant commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he focused on preparedness and response issues. Stripling has responded to more than a dozen federally declared disasters and public health emergencies around the county.
Lindsay F. Wiley, J.D., M.P.H., is a professor of law and founding faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Program at University of California, Los Angles School of Law. She is an internationally recognized expert in health care access and public health law, policy, and ethics. She has published extensively and served as consultant on matters relating to policy-making during public health emergencies, particularly with respect to the use of population-wide non-pharmaceutical interventions. She is the author of Public Health Law and Ethics: Power, Duty, Restraint and Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (with Lawrence O. Gostin, UC Press). Professor Wiley is a former president of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and a former member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. She is currently the United States Rapporteur for the Lex Atlas COVID-19 Project. She is a current member of the Board of Directors of ChangeLab Solutions, LLC and of the Law Professor Panel that advises Local Solutions Support Center. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, her M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College.
