Dr. Alison Buttenheim is a social scientist who studies the behavioral aspects of infectious disease prevention. She is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Associate Director of Penn’s Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. She is also a co-founder of Dear Pandemic …

Dr. Malia Jones is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of infectious disease and social epidemiology, demography, and geography. She is an Associate Scientist in Health Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Laboratory, where her work focuses on how the places we spend time affect our health, especially spatial clustering of infectious …

Dr. Lindsey Leininger, Dear Pandemic’s Nerdy-Girl-in-Chief, is a public health scientist who teaches and writes about data-driven health policy. Her greatest professional passion is helping health care decision-makers make sense of medical data. Over her career she has taught and trained policymakers, physicians, patient advocates, and executives about the intelligent use of public health and …

Dr. Jennifer Beam Dowd is Associate Professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford and studies mortality trends and how social factors “get under the skin” to impact health, including via infections and immune function. She is also Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at Oxford and received her PhD training …

Gretchen Peterson is a retired Instructional Technology Specialist who spent twenty-nine years as an educator for grades 4-8 in private Episcopal schools in Dallas, TX.  She specialized in teaching students technology, research, and entrepreneurial skills as well as providing technology support and education to faculty and staff.  She holds an MEd from the University of …

Dr. Sandra Albrecht is formally trained as a social epidemiologist, with additional training in the social sciences, nutrition, and in both chronic and infectious diseases. Her research is focused on the social and neighborhood-level factors that contribute to the high burden of nutrition-related diseases in immigrants and among Hispanics/Latinos. She is on the faculty at …

Shoshana Aronowitz is a family nurse practitioner, PhD prepared nurse scientist, and a health services research fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Instagram Lead/Editor of Dear Pandemic. Her research interests are the intersections of criminal justice and health, harm reduction approaches to the opioid/overdose crisis, the provision …

Mahima Bhattar is an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Sociology and Economics. She has focused much of her undergraduate career on public health research through studying women’s health in Varanasi, India while studying abroad and interning in Monitoring & Evaluations at the Ugandan NGO, Health Access Connect. She plans to continue into …

Dr. Clark-Cutaia is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing and Grossman School of Medicine. She received a BS in Nursing (2003), and MS in Nursing (2006) from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD in Nursing (2012) from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Clark-Cutaia continues to …

Dr. Sarah Coles is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix in the Department of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine. She received her undergraduate degrees in molecular and cellular biology and saxophone performance from the University of Arizona. She attended medical school at the University of Arizona College of …