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Using data-driven approaches to shift the paradigm from ‘living with a disability’ to ‘thriving with a disability.

Staff

Grace Jo
Research Assistant DHRC
Layla Shahbander
Research Coordinator DHRC

advisory board

Meeta Anand

Senior Director of Census & Data Equity for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund

Henry Claypool

Visit Scholar at Brandeis’ Lurie Institute & Independent Consultant

Anjali Forber-Pratt

Director of Research – American Association on Health & Disability

Megan Morris

Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Population Health, Director and Founder of the Disability Equity Collaborative

Faculty Collaborators 

Amber Davis
Research Associate, Disability Health Research Center
Jennifer Deal
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Epidemiology Doctoral Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Theodore Iwashyna
Bloomberg Distinguished professor of Social Science and Justice in Medicine, Johns Hopkins
Scott Landes
Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute Research Affiliate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
Nicholas Reed
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health
Rupa Valdez

Rupa Valdez, PhD

Professor of Systems and Information Engineering Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia

Current Students

Victoria Green

Victoria Green

JHSPH Student
Claudia Pulgarin

Claudia Pulgarin

Student
Kelly Rand

Kelly Rand

JHSPH Student

Former Staff

Caroline Cerilli

Caroline Cerilli

JD Candidate, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Former Students 

Jessica Campanile 
Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Student at Johns Hopkins University
Jennifer Choi

Jennifer Choi

Research Specialist at Center for Inclusive Mobility Environments at University of Michigan School of Kinesiology
Sabrina Epstein
Policy Analyst at Disability Rights California
Priyanka Kumar
Resident physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Octaviano Merecias

Octaviano Merecias

Student
Anna Moyer
Postdoctoral fellow at UMass Chan Medical School
Fiona Sweeney
Research Program Coordinator at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Erica Twardzik
Assistant Professor, Applied Exercise science at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology Director, Center for Inclusive Mobility Environments (CIME) Graduate Faculty, Movement Science
Luna Wintergreen

Luna Wintergreen

Student
Zandy Wong 
Rhodes Scholar and Master’s Student in Applied Digital Health, University of Oxford Research Assistant, University of Michigan