Kelli Stidham Hall, PhD, MS, is the Associate Dean of Research in the School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, the Thomas Keller Professor in Diversity in the Departments of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences and Epidemiology, and the Co-Director of the Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research at Tulane University. Trained as a social epidemiologist and originally an advanced practice nurse, Dr. Hall's research program addresses the social determinants of and solutions for maternal-child and reproductive health equity in the U.S. and globally.

Akilah Dulin is a social scientist with training and expertise in social factors of health, theory, community engaged research methods, qualitative and mixed methods research, measure development and policy advocacy. She examines multilevel risk and multilevel resilience resources associated with health outcomes among populations disproportionately burdened by diseases. She has served as multiple principal investigator (MPI) on three NIH-funded R01 grants, co-investigator on one NIH-funded R01 and principal investigator of two foundation grants.

Arthur Mora is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He earned a PhD and an MHA from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a BS from the University of Southern Mississippi. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Mora spent considerable time in clinical quality improvement efforts, particularly in glycemic control, deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis, and stroke protocol development for hospitalized patients. Both in healthcare organizations and in academia, Dr.

Anita Raj is the Executive Director of the Newcomb Institute and the Nancy Reeves Dreux Endowed Chair in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University. She is a research scientist trained in developmental psychology and public health with a multi-disciplinary research focus on gender equity in global health and development.

Dr. Troy Moon is an infectious disease specialist and pediatrician, who is an established health-services researcher and educator with extensive experience conducting research in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining Tulane in January 2023, Dr. Moon had six years on-the ground experience living in Mozambique (2007-2012) as the Clinical Director of a PEPFAR-funded HIV care and treatment scale-up program.

Dr. Melissa Gonzales received her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry, biology, and Spanish, and her Master of Science in Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene from the University of Arizona. She earned her doctorate in environmental health from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She also completed a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in environmental epidemiology with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development.

David Chae, Sc.D., M.A., is Professor in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences and director of the Society, Health, and Racial Equity (SHARE) Lab. His research focuses on social determinants of health inequities and the embodiment of racism. He studies racism as a social-environmental toxin that shapes the inequitable population-level distribution of disease.

Dr. Ronald Blanton is a physician-scientist who began his career in studies on the molecular biology of parasitic diseases. He returned to the classroom to obtain a master’s degree in genetic epidemiology. Throughout his career, his work has integrated basic laboratory science with field epidemiology to uncover useful epidemiologic relationships and identities. This includes 30 years of experience in Brazil. For schistosomiasis and the flaviviruses dengue and hepatitis C, he identified human genetic determinants of diseases by microsatellite and SNP markers.

Gene Beyt is an experienced senior physician executive, university faculty, consultant, author, and visual artist. He has served as a program director in internal medicine, a chief medical and a chief quality officer, a professor of medicine, a practicing physician, and a visiting scholar at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. There he co-edited the book Wisdom Leadership in Academic Health Science Centers: Leading Positive Change.