Mental Health and Substance Use Research Interest Group Advisory Committee

Dr. Leslie Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Family Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and an Associate Program Director for the NIH-funded Training on ImplemenTAtioN and team Science for NCD Control (TITANS) program. Read Bio

Talia Benheim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. Read Bio

Anuar Assamidanov, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Economics at the University of California, Irvine. Read Bio

Alex Sheehan is a fourth-year Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Candidate at Tulane University, Lived Experience Council Member of One Mind and the Healthy Brains Global Initiative, Health Policy Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Elinor Ostrom Fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. Read Bio

Dr. Brown is a health economist with interests in mental health services and outcomes, suicide, and the mind-body connection between psychological distress and chronic pain. Read Bio

Yunyu Xiao, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Health Informatics Division, Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. Read Bio

Rebecca Costa Bilden is a NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Read Bio

Tremaine Sails-Dunbar is a lived experience mental health researcher and Doctoral Candidate at University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health currently working on a Ph.D. In Public Health Education and Promotion. Read Bio

CeRon Ford is a doctoral student in the Health Services Research, Policy & Administration program with developing expertise in health policy. Read Bio

Jordan Herring is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in public policy, with a concentration in public finance, and a Program Associate with the Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity at George Washington University. Read Bio

Carlos A. Larrauri, JD, MPA, APRN, is a dedicated advocate for mental health who has made impactful contributions to research and policy on both national and global stages Read Bio

Marwa Rawy, PharmD, PhD, is an Associate Research Scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Read Bio

Chosen to represent “Discovery & Innovation,” one of six core values at the University of Florida (UF) in 2022, Alex Rodriguez, MPH, values and practices research at the intersection of arts and public health. Read Bio

Erika Simeon has worked in healthcare and public health research in Oregon for over 15 years. Read Bio

Michelle Truong, M.P.H., is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Health Policy & Management in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland. Read Bio

Yunyu Xiao, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Health Informatics Division, Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. Read Bio