The Contributors

Evan D. Anderson, JD, PhD is an advanced senior lecturer in the Public Health program and in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly the senior legal fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson's Public Health Law Research program. His work focuses on empirical legal studies, with an emphasis on the measurement of law for policy evaluation. Prior to joining the Public Health Law Research program, Mr. Anderson was a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a fellow at the Center for Law and the Public's Health: A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities.

Alida Bouris, PhD, MSW is an associate professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, where she co‐directs the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, the Behavioral, Social, and Implementation Sciences Core of the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research, and the Transmedia Lab at the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Her research addresses the relationship between social context and health, with a particular emphasis on understanding how social inequalities, social networks, and social support shape inequities in HIV/AIDS, mental health, and substance abuse among marginalized populations. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Ford Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She received a BA in Women’s Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a MSW, MPhil, and PhD in Social Work from the Columbia University School of Social work.

Frank J. Chaloupka, PhD recently retired from the University of Illinois at Chicago, after nearly 33 years on the faculty and after nearly 20 years as director of the UIC Health Policy Center. He is a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Health Economics Program and Children’s Program. Dr. Chaloupka's research focuses on the economics of health behaviors, including cigarette smoking and other tobacco use, alcohol use and abuse, illicit drug use, diet, and physical activity, as well as on various outcomes related to substance use and abuse. Dr. Chaloupka co‐directed the Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Policy and Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior research program for 20 years and was director of BTG's ImpacTeen Project. Dr. Chaloupka also founded the Tobacconomics: Economic Research Informing Tobacco Control Policy program and was director of the program for over a decade.

Scott Cunningham, PhD is a professor of economics at Baylor University. He is the author of the book, Causal inference: The mixtape, and has published in journals throughout economics such as Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, and others. He lives in Waco, Texas.

Kazi Faria Islam, MPH, has cutting edge research experience with a range of vulnerable communities, including breast cancer patients and sexually exploited survivors. Her research interests are community‐based approaches to enhancing mental health and psychosocial well‐being. Ms. Islam is now obtaining her doctoral degree in Indigenous and Rural Health with a focus on mental health at Montana State University while working as a graduate research assistant. She believes that pursuing a doctoral degree grounded on the mental health aspect will help her develop the necessary skills and mindset to thrive and sustain in the role of a public health professional.

Brian R. Flay, PhD (1947–2021), was a social psychologist internationally recognized for his research on health promotion and the prevention of disease, smoking, drug abuse, and violence. He established the Theory of Triadic Influence to further understanding of the core factors driving behaviors affecting human health. Brian had a distinguished career at the University of Southern California, University of Illinois‐Chicago, Oregon State University, and Boise State University as faculty and center director. His life work will continue to have a long‐lasting and meaningful impact on public health research and practice.

Mark Hall, JD is one of the nation’s leading scholars of health care law and public policy. He is the author or editor of 20 books and has published scholarship in leading journals of law, medicine, and health policy. At Wake Forest University, Prof. Hall is on the faculty of both the Division of Public Health Sciences and the Law School, and he is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Jennifer K. Ibrahim, PhD, MPH is an associate professor and associate dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Public Health at Temple University. She earned a BS degree from Boston College in 1997; an MPH degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1999; a PhD degree in health services and policy analysis and an MA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002; and MEd degree in higher education from Temple University. Prior to joining the faculty at Temple University in 2005, she was an American Legacy Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Ibrahim’s area of research interest is in health policy development and implementation, particularly at the state and local levels. Most recently, she has been investigating means to address tobacco use through policy modifications and integration within existing public health systems, domestically and internationally.

Wesley G. Jennings, PhD is Gillespie Distinguished Scholar, chair, professor, and director of the Center for Evidence‐Based Policing & Reform (CEBPR) in the Department of Criminal Justice & Legal Studies in the School of Applied Sciences and a faculty affiliate at the School of Law at the University of Mississippi. He has over 275 publications, his h‐index is 62 (i‐index of 170), and he has over 127,500 citations to his published work. He has been recognized as the #1 criminologist in the world in previous publications based on his peer‐reviewed publication productivity. His major research interests are quantitative methods, longitudinal data analysis, and experimental and quasi‐experimental designs. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs’ Association, the American Society of Criminology, the American Society of Evidence‐Based Policing, and a Lifetime Member of both the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Southern Criminal Justice Association. He is also a fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is a past president of the Southern Criminal Justice Association.

Kelli A. Komro, PhD, MPH is a professor of behavioral, social, and health education sciences in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Komro is a child health epidemiologist and has led and contributed to NIH, CDC, and foundation‐funded legal epidemiology research to study health effects of state laws related to family economic security. Dr. Komro has also partnered with numerous communities in the conduct of community randomized trials to test effectiveness of preventive interventions, most recently with the Cherokee Nation. She has published over 130 peer‐reviewed scientific papers in leading public health, prevention science, preventive medicine, addiction, and health behavior journals and her research has been highlighted by the National Institutes of Health and National Academies of Sciences. Dr. Komro served as director of Graduate Studies from 2016 to 2019 and has been recognized for her teaching and mentoring as recipient of awards from the American Public Health Association; Society for Prevention Research; Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University; and the College of Medicine at the University of Florida. She is a member of Delta Omega Society, the honorary public health society. She has held academic positions at the University of Minnesota and the University of Florida, where she served as associate director of the Institute for Child Health Policy. She is a graduate of the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

Glen P. Mays, PhD, MPH serves as professor and chair of the Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy at the University of Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. Mays’s research focuses on strategies for organizing and financing public health services, preventive care, and social services for underserved populations. Currently, he directs the Systems for Action Research Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which studies strategies for aligning the delivery and financing systems that support health and social services. Mays also directs the National Health Security Preparedness Index Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which studies health system readiness for large‐scale hazardous events. Mays earned an undergraduate degree in political science from Brown University, earned MPH and PhD degrees in health policy and administration from UNC‐Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health economics at Harvard Medical School.

Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD is professor of law and public health in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Mello conducts empirical research into issues at the...