Ph.D., 2009, Emory University; S.M., 2005, Harvard University; B.A, 2001, Smith College
Ashli Owen-Smith is a behavioral scientist with research interests in health disparities, mental health (specifically serious mental illness, trauma and suicide), chronic pain, and complementary and alternative approaches for complex conditions with both mental and physical causes and manifestations.
I earned my doctorate in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. My research focuses primarily on perinatal epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and assessing the risks and safety of medication use during pregnancy.
My research focuses primarily on perinatal epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and assessing the risks and safety of medication use during pregnancy.
I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't like chocolate at all--not chocolate chips, brownies, or hot coco---nothing!
Health psychologist
Arne Beck, PhD is a health psychologist, Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s Institute for Health Research, and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center. He serves as the Kaiser Permanente Colorado site lead for the Mental Health Research Network. His research interests include perinatal mental health, suicide prevention, feedback informed care for depression, online mindfulness based cognitive therapy for preventing depre
Post BA fellowship at National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics; Masters Degree in Medical Anthropology
Have worked at KPCO for over 16 years on research and evaluation projects touching on topics such as healthy eating, active living, smoking harm reduction, opioid use disorder, diabetes, pediatric hypertension, youth substance use prevention, postpartum maternal mental health, and complementary and integrative health; Skilled in qualitative research design, data collection, and analysis.
I've trained in 3 different styles of martial arts in my lifetime - Ishun Ryu, Tae Kwon Do, and Enshin.
MPH Epidemiology
Mental/behavioral health-related research experience: depression, social support, fear of cancer recurrence, physical activity, tobacco use
I’m a runner and my goal for this year is to hit 500 total recorded miles!
Dr. Lynch received her PhD in health economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, where she was the recipient of a fellowship in health economics from the National Institute of Mental Health. Following her doctoral work, Dr. Lynch was a post-doctoral fellow in children’s mental health in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Lynch also holds a Master of Science degree in public health policy from the University of North Carolina at C
Frances Lynch, PhD, MSPH, is a health economist whose research focuses on the organization and financing of care for people with mental health conditions. Her work has particularly focused on mental health and developmental conditions in children and the economic impact of these conditions on families. Dr. Lynch has extensive experience conducting economic evaluations of complex behavioral interventions including interventions for depression and anxiety disorders.
My overarching research interests have always been measurement of behavior and implementation of health-related interventions in real-world settings such as public schools and healthcare systems. I believe my research has contributed to these areas because it has provided a road map for 1) how to objectively measure behavior that we have traditionally thought of as only self-reported (diet and physical activity) in the settings where it occurs and 2) how to change systems through the process of
I worked at a slaughter house my first year in graduate school as work study. I would go to Augusta, Georgia and collect ovarian follicular fluid from freshly killed cows for an invitro fertilization lab at the University of Georgia Vet School.
Susan T. Azrin, Ph.D. is Unit Chief of the Early Psychosis Prediction and Prevention Research Unit at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the US, where she also leads the NIMH research program on improving health and reducing premature mortality in people with serious mental illness and the Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET) initiative. Dr. Azrin also serves as the Science Officer for the MHRN. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Maryland