This is a blog about some random stuff that I did over the long holiday weekend

LuAnn E. White is a Professor Emerita at Tulane University and a toxicologist having worked in environmental public health for over 40 years. She founded the Center for Applied Environmental Public Health and is the PI of the Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center. Dr White has been a leader in public health workforce development using online training to build capacity among public health and using training as a vehicle for the dissemination of research to practice.

Trained as a sociologist and demographer, Dr. Meekers has conducted extensive research on sexual risk behavior and reproductive health. He has been involved in several studies aimed at improving the design of social marketing and behavior change communication programs in developing countries, and at assessing the impact of behavior change programs.

Dr. Kendall, a medical anthropologist, is a former acting chair of the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences and in the Department of International Health. He was an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health where he founded the Center for International Community-Based Health Research. Dr. Kendall is a Fulbright Senior Fellow, CNPq Senior Researcher, and served on three Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences panels. He served on the governing council of the American Public Health Association. Dr.

Dr. Gretchen Clum's research has focused on exposure to stressful events, mental health, and health outcomes (e.g. sexual risk behavior, substance use) in women and adolescents. She has worked primarily with vulnerable populations, including women who have experienced violence and HIV positive adolescents. Her goal is to understand mechanisms linking stressful life events, mental health, and poor health outcomes in vulnerable populations in order to develop and test evidence-based interventions to ameliorate the negative health effects of stressful life events.

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Dr. Aaron Hoffman's research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of cancer, with a particular interest in the influence of genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of circadian disruption on cancer susceptibility. He is also interested in more broad analyses of the inter-individual variability in gene expression, and the extent to which epigenetic mechanisms such as post-transcriptional gene regulation by small non-coding RNA species and other non-traditional regulatory instruments (e.g.