Dr. Bullock has practiced professionally and held academic and instructional positions for 38 years. His breadth of education, experience, and professional certifications have served the public, industrial, and commercial sectors, in the health, safety, exposure assessment science, and emergency response disciplines.
Dr. Lu Yuan, CSP, is Corporate EHS Manager of Performance Contractors, Inc. Before joining Performance Contractors in December 2023, he was Professor of Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Yuan has been extensively involved in occupational ergonomics and safety research in construction and other industrial sectors.
Jeffrey M. Elder, MD serves as the Chief Medical Officer at University Medical Center New Orleans (UMC), New Orleans' Level 1 Trauma Center, where he continues providing medical care as an emergency medicine physician. Dr. Elder also serves Associate Chief Medical Officer for Emergency Management for LCMC Health, an eight-hospital system serving the greater New Orleans area including UMC. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the LSU Health Section of Emergency Medicine and Co-Director of the Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine. Dr.
Aaron Miller, PhD, MPH is currently the Deputy County Manager for Arlington, VA, with oversight responsibility for Public Safety (Public Safety Communications & Emergency Management, Police Department, and Fire Department) and the Department of Technology Services (DTS). In this role, he provides leadership, coordination, and direct oversight for public safety, information technology, and innovation, comprising a total of 1,032 FTEs and $170+ million in annual general fund expenditures, and further serves as a senior member of County leadership team. Dr.
Dr. Dev Jani focuses on the operationalization of science and policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with emphasis on public health and medical, workforce health and safety, and health security mission space.
Melissa Goldin Evans is a Community Health Sciences researcher in maternal and child health who specializes in reproductive healthcare access and equity issues. She is faculty within the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences and affiliated with the Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research (MAC). Her academic training and research experiences include examining multiple factors related to contraceptive access among low-income women in Louisiana utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Lauren E. Futrell Dunaway, PhD, MPH, RD, LDN is a Registered Dietitian and Public Health Researcher with public health teaching, research, and evaluation experience. She is an Assistant Professor in the SPHTM Undergraduate Public Health Studies Program, currently working to expand nutrition courses and degree offerings. Before this role, she was a Professor of Practice in the Tulane School of Professional Advancement’s Kinesiology program where she developed robust and interactive undergraduate and graduate online courses.
Dr. De Anda-Duran is a cardiovascular risk and brain health epidemiologist with a diverse training background. She studied medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Baja, California, in Mexico and became a medical doctor in 2016. She obtained a master’s in Public Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2020. Before joining the Tulane faculty, Dr.
Dr. Samuel Kakraba’s research centers chiefly on the development and implementation of efficient computationally-driven pipelines aided by robust data science, statistical, mathematical and biostatistical predictive machine learning algorithms like neural networks, deep learning, support vector machines, k-nearest neighbors, random forests, Naïve Bayes, and others, in R statistical software, Python, SAS, and others, for estimation, prediction, and inferences into complex high-dimensional relationships in many fields like pharmaceutical sciences, public health, among others.
Shalean Collins is an applied nutritionist and dietitian who uses mixed methods to evaluate the consequences of resource insecurity for vulnerable populations. Her research integrates training in clinical nutrition and public health and uses a biocultural approach to study the interactions between social, behavioral, physiological, and environmental determinants of health.
