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Dr. Sara Abiola, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
June 15, 2020

Hunger in America, SNAP/Food Stamps, SSTAR Act, Obesity, Decision-making Dr. Sara Abiola is an assistant professor of health policy & management at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and co-director of the Better Health Systems Lab that anal

Dr. John S. Lyons, Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Kentucky
June 14, 2020

Population health, Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM). Dr. John S. Lyons is a Professor of Health Management and Policy and the Director of the Center of Innovation in Population Health at the University of Kentucky.   After receivi

Prof. Mehdi Anwar, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut
June 13, 2020

Memristors, Neuromorphic Computing, Mysteries of the brain and the future of Computing  Dr. Mehdi Anwar is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. As a Jefferson Science Fellow, he served as Special Advise

Prof. Bruce Mizarch, Professor of Economics at Rutgers University
June 12, 2020

Microstructures of financial markets, order routing, high-frequency trading, oil prices  ..... Prof. Bruce Mizrach is a professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University. He has held appointments at Boston College, the Wharton School, th

Dr. Scott Friedman, the Dean for Therapeutic Discovery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
June 11, 2020

Causes of chronic liver diseases, emerging treatments, COVID-19 Dr. Scott Friedman is the Dean for Therapeutic Discovery and Chief of the Division of Liver Diseases, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has performed pioneering research into

Prof. Jeffrey Townsend of Yale School of Public Health and Yale University
June 09, 2020

Evolution of cancer, plague, pandemics, COVID, policymaking under uncertainty Jeffrey Townsend is the Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale University. He is an experimentalist a

Prof. Warren Powell of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University
June 06, 2020

Decisions under uncertainty, shocks, supply chains, and autonomous vehicles Prof Warren Powell taught at Princeton for almost 40 years, where he was drawn to the opportunity of bringing advanced analytics to the trucking industry which introduced him to t

Prof. Julia Lane, Professor at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
June 03, 2020

Democratizing our data - A manifesto. Improving the design of metrics, collection of data, analysis and decision-making at the federal level Prof. Julia Lane is a Professor at the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and an NYU Fel

Dr. Ian Williams, author, sculptor and biochemist.
May 30, 2020

Humans, bacteria, intelligence, consciousness, life and everything else Ian Williams was born in England in 1954. He trained as a biochemist at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford and received an MFA from Bennington College in Vermont. He worked for Pf

Dr.Pierre Etienne, co-Director of the Alzheimer’s disease prevention program at McGill University
May 24, 2020

COVID-19, clinical trial processes, pharmaceutical R&D, vaccine development, use of preventative medications, Alzheimer's disease, PTSD After obtaining his medical degree in Belgium in 1972, Pierre Etienne moved to McGill University, where he did post