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Ìý The current committee consists of:

• Nadia N. Abuelezam, Sc.D., is an assistant professor at the Connell School of Nursing and an epidemiologist. Her research interests are in the intersection of epidemiology, mathematical modeling, and health disparities. Her current research focuses on the use of mathematical models and epidemiological methods to better understand how to improve healthcare outcomes for under served (and under researched) populations. The goals of her program of research are to use quantitative methods and novel data streams to better understand inequalities in health care distribution and access in global and domestic settings.
• Christopher Lee. Cardiovascular nurse scientist Christopher Lee, Ph.D., RN, FAHA, FAAN, FHFSA, is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Research at the Connell School of Nursing. Dr. Lee has dedicated his career to better understanding heart disease, improving long term outcomes for patients and their families. His research has been support by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Research on Women’s Health and the American Heart Association (AHA). Dr. Lee’s work has earned him multiple awards from the AHA, Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), and the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research.
  
• Larry Ludlow, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment in the Lynch School of Education. He teaches courses in research methods, applied statistics, and psychometric theory and practice. His research interests include longitudinal models for understanding faculty course evaluations, Rasch model (IRT) instrument development applications, and complexity theory applied to representing social network changes. His research collaborations include the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Indian Education; Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University; St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland; University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; and National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
• Laura O’Dwyer, Ph.D.,is a Professor in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment department in the Lynch School of Education. Her research focuses on examining the individual and organizational correlates of students' academic performance. O'Dwyer's research has been funded by the Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Science. In the Lynch School, she teaches courses in statistics, research design, and applied data analyses.
  
• Shanta Pandey, Ph.D.,Ìý is Professor at the SchoolÌý of Social Work, ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ. Her research examines the impact policies and programs have on the most vulnerable populations in the U.S. and developing regions of South Asia. In the U.S., she has studied the impact of the overhaul of 60 year-old entitlement programs on survival strategies of
  poor single mothers living in communities with very few opportunities—American Indian reservations and rural Missouri. Outside of the U.S., Pandey has focused on policies and programs aimed at improving the status of women in Southern Asia (Nepal, India, and Bangladesh). Her research has been funded by grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, US department of Agriculture, and the MacArthur Foundation.Ìý Prior to joining ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ, she was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis for 25 years, where she served on the University’s Faculty Senate Council, co-chaired the Gender Pay Equity Study Steering Committees for the Danforth Campus, taught measurement and multivariable statistics to doctoral students, and chaired the Research Specialization in the MSW program. At the ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ School of Social Work, she teaches Social Welfare System to the MSW students and Dissertation Preparation
  Seminar to doctoral students. In addition to serving on 26 doctoral dissertation committees, she has chaired five and co-chaired two doctoral dissertations.
  
• Erika L. Sabbath, Sc.D.m is an assistant professor at ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ School of Social Work. Trained as a social epidemiologist, her work focuses on the role of workplace exposures--particularly workplace stress--in shaping health and health disparities in the population. She is the principal investigator of the Boston Hospital Workers Health Study, a longitudinal open cohort study of 15,000 hospital patient care workers at two large Boston hospitals, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She is also part of the University's interdisciplinary undergraduate program in global public health.