Kenneth A. Dodge, PhD, is the William McDougall professor of Public Policy at Duke University and a clinical and developmental psychologist. He studies the development and prevention of aggressive behavior in children and families and how public policies can be shaped to lower child abuse rates and improve child well-being in the population. Contact Dodge.
Mitchell J. Prinstein, PhD, ABPP, is the chief science officer of APA, and he serves as the John Van Seters Distinguished professor of psychology and neuroscience and the codirector of the Winston National Center on Technology Use, Brain, and Psychological Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Arthur C. Evans, PhD, is the CEO of APA. He previously served as commissioner of Philadelphia’s behavioral health system and deputy commissioner of Connecticut’s. He has held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. He has applied a population health framework at scale to enhance clinical outcomes and reduce disparities with a broad range of interventions, including public policy, evidence-based practices, cultural responsiveness, and community empowerment.
Isaac L. Ahuvia, MA, is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at Stony Brook University, where he studies individual beliefs about mental health and illness and the consequences of these beliefs for clinical outcomes.
Kiara Alvarez, PhD, is a Bloomberg assistant professor of american health in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a licensed psychologist. Her research focuses on youth mental health equity with an emphasis on preventing suicidal behavior; integrating mental health care into primary care, schools, and community settings; and promoting the well-being of Latinx and immigrant youths and their families.
Rinad S. Beidas, PhD, is chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and is a psychologist and implementation scientist. Her research leverages insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to make it easier for clinicians, leaders, and organizations to transform the quality and equity of care.
Ashanti J. Brown, MA, is a PhD student in the clinical psychology program at Georgia State University. Her research and clinical approaches are grounded in a holistic modality that explores the mind–body connection, aiming to reduce mental health disparities and improve culturally tailored interventions for racially or ethnically minoritized individuals who have experienced trauma, oppression, and intergenerational trauma. As a registered yoga teacher, she integrates mindfulness and meditation into her clinical practice and research, leveraging yoga as a tool for healing race-based stress and trauma.
Pim Cuijpers, PhD, is professor emeritus of clinical psychology and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on methods to reduce the disease burden of depression at the population level by prioritizing prevention and increasing the uptake and the improvement of treatments.
Ellen-ge Denton, PsyD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center and a licensed psychologist, with postdoctoral training in pediatric psychology, public health, and clinical research methods. She studies suicide prevention and intervention and mental health capacity development in resource-limited settings.
Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, PhD, is the Cathy and Stephen Graham professor of child and adolescent psychology in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. Her work focuses on improving systems so that they deliver high-quality services for children, adolescents, and their families.
Christina Johnson, MPH, is the director of research operations on Rinad S. Beidas’s team at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She oversees the team’s research portfolio, which consists of studies that are being conducted to close research-to-practice gaps using insights from implementation science and behavioral economics, with the goal of improving health and health care equity.
Alan E. Kazdin, PhD, is Sterling professor of psychology and child psychiatry (emeritus) at Yale University. His research has focused primarily on the treatment of aggressive and antisocial behavior in children and adolescents and parenting practices more generally. Currently, his work focuses on world mental health and scalable interventions for mental disorders.
Riley McDanal, MA, is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. Her research focuses on the scalable implementation of transdiagnostic interventions for adolescent and young adult populations. She also studies LGBTQ+ mental health, with particular attention to disparities in psychopathology levels and treatment effectiveness.
Isha W. Metzger, PhD, LCP, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University, adjunct graduate faculty at the University of Georgia, and affiliate research faculty at Yale University. Her work is aimed at informing and adapting evidence-based treatments to increase service use and improve outcomes for Black youths, families, and adults engaged in community mental health.
Sonia N. Rowley, BA, is a PhD student in clinical and developmental psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies the implementation of family-based preventive interventions, with a focus on improving the accessibility and quality of such interventions in community settings.
Jessica Schleider, PhD, is an associate professor of medical social sciences, pediatrics, and psychology at Northwestern University, where she directs the Lab for Scalable Mental Health. Her work focuses on building, testing, and disseminating scalable mental health solutions that bridge gaps in mental health systems, with a focus on digital and single-session interventions for underserved youths.
Daniel S. Shaw, PhD, is a distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Center for Parents and Children and the Pitt Parents and Children Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary research interests have been studying the development and prevention of early problem behavior in children facing contextual adversities.
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