New Affiliates Join CDHA

CDHA is thrilled to welcome six new affiliates for fall 2019!

James Li is an assistant professor in Psychology. He uses genetics and quantitative analysis of environmental factors as methods to investigate the underlying factors associated with behavioral disorders in childhood. He further expands expertise in CDHA’s biodemography theme.

Stephen Meyn is the Director of the new Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine. Dr. Meyn is spearheading the effort to use precision medicine – the practice of using genetic testing to create individualized health treatment plans for patients – at UW-Madison. He further expands expertise in CDHA’s biodemography theme.

Anne Ersig is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing. Her research integrates genomic and biological influences to help elucidate the stress response in children and adolescents with a chronic health condition. Her goal is to discover new ways of relieving stress on individuals with childhood health conditions and their family members. She further expands expertise in CDHA’s health disparities and biodemography themes.

Tiffany Green is an assistant professor in both UW Ob-GYN and the School of Medicine and Public Health’s Department of Population Health Sciences. She is a health economist who researches health and racial disparities and infant/child health outcomes. She joins UW-Madison from Virginia Commonwealth University, and is the first hire out of UW-Madison’s Reproductive Equity Cluster hire first announced in 2018.  She further expands expertise in CDHA’s health disparities and health economics themes.

Lauren Schmitz is an assistant professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. Her research incorporates social determinants of health and genetics to investigate inequalities across the life course. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan’s Health and Retirement Study.  She further expands expertise in CDHA’s biodemography and health economics themes.

Mosi Ifatunji is an assistant professor in Afro-American Studies and Sociology. He uses quantitative analysis to research how intangible cultural characteristics like language and religion are related to discrimination and health disparities. He further expands expertise in CDHA’s determinants of disparities of aging trajectories theme.

Rebecca Myerson is an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health. She joins UW-Madison from the University of Southern California, where she was also an assistant professor. She further expands expertise in CDHA’s health disparities and health economics themes.