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RUBY MENDENHALL
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ruby Mendenhall is a Professor of Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Gender and Women’s Studies and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an affiliate of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives; the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research; Epstein Health Law and Policy Program; Family Law and Policy Program; the Institute of Government and Public Affairs; and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Mendenhall is the Associate Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine….Read More
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EJ Fagan
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago

Janet Liechty
Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professorship in Liberal Arts and Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Sage Kim
Associate Professor, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago
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Linda Forst
Senior Associate Dean, Center for Healthy Work, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago

Helen Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago

Jong Lee
Deputy Associate Director, Software Directorate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Christopher Navarro
Lead Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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William Martin
Senior Advisor to the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of Research Development | University of Illinois Chicago

Jake Bowers
Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and Statistics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dennis Watson
Senior Research Scientist, Chestnut Health Systems; Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago

Phyllis Baker
Director of Academic Affairs, Discovery Partners Institute | University of Illinois System
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Phyllis Baker
Affiliation - Director of Academic Affairs, Discovery Partners Institute | University of Illinois System
Email pbaker@illinois.edu

Jake Bowers
Affiliation - Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and Statistics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email jwbowers@illinois.edu

Stephen Brown
Affiliation - Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago
Email sbbrown9@uic.edu

Beverly Bunch
Affiliation - Professor, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield
Email bbunc1@uis.edu

Joseph Cheng
Affiliation - Research Professor and Director of Special Projects, Gies School of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email jlcheng@illinois.edu

Lorraine Conroy
Affiliation - Division Director and Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago
Email lconroy@uic.edu

Jonathan Coppess
Affiliation - Director of the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program and Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email jwcoppes@illinois.edu

Jennifer A. Delaney
Affiliation - Associate Professor, Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, College of Education | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email delaneyj@illinois.edu

David DuBois
Affiliation - Associate Dean for Research and Professor, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago
Email dldubois@uic.edu
