Sara Woltz’s research focuses on disparities, cardiovascular health, Black health, aging, and behavioral economics. Her current work explores the influence of allostatic load on cardiovascular disease risk. Woltz is a Social Behavioral and Population Science Ph.D. student, recipient of the NHLBI T-32 Drive Fellowship, and is advised by Dr. Caryn Bell. Prior to starting her Ph.D. at the Tulane School of Public Health, she worked for the University of Utah Neurology Department on clinical research and was the data manager of the State of Utah Parkinson’s’ disease registry.

Dr. Ted Chen is professor emeritus in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences. Chen taught at Tulane for 24 years following a career that took him from Taiwan to the U.S., and from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.  In 1986-1990, he was elected to serve as a member of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. In 1989, he founded the Asia-Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco and served as the Permanent Executive Secretary.