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Lisa Shifflett is a regional child care health consultant coach with 27 years experience working in early care and education. Shifflett also is a Registered Nurse with extensive experience in health, safety and nutrition as it relates to this field. She focuses her expertise on improving the quality of early care in licensed child care programs in North Carolina.
As a child care health consultant, Shifflett is knowledgeable about current rules and regulations and health and safety guidelines for child care providers. She has been successful in creating safe and healthy early care environments with lower staff turnover rates by providing ongoing support and guidance, resulting in a more stable and reliable environment for children enrolled in early care. A native of Youngsville, N.C., she has served as a child care health consultant since 2009.
Vivian Go is Professor of Health Behavior, Associate Director of the Center for AIDS Research Social and Behavioral Science Core, and Member of the Institute for Global and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) at UNC. Her research focuses on the intersection between HIV and co-morbidities including mental health and opioid use disorders, stigma and discrimination among key populations including people who inject drugs and men who have sex with men, and scaling up evidence-based HIV interventions. Her work integrates intervention research, implementation science, qualitative methods, and mixed methods.
Examples of current or recently funded projects include REDART (Reducing Alcohol to Improve ART Adherence), a NIDA R01 randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of two brief alcohol reduction interventions to the standard of care among antiretroviral therapy (ART) clients in Vietnam; SNaP (Systems Navigation and Psychosocial Counseling); a NIDA R01 implementation science trial to scale up an HIV intervention among people who inject drugs who are living with HIV in Vietnam; OHOP (Ohio Opioid Project) a NIDA/CDC/SAMSA UG3/UH3 to identify and address harm reduction service delivery gaps in southern rural Ohio. She is also co-Director of an NIH D43 implementation science training program for Vietnamese researchers and policymakers.Β
Dr. Go has worked in Vietnam for over 20 years where she and Dr. Tran Viet Ha (In-Country Director and Assistant Professor at UNC) established a UNC-Vietnam site comprising over 30 full-time Vietnamese staff who are highly trained and skilled in conducting large clinical and behavioral trials. The UNC-Vietnam office is based in Hanoi and is registered with the Vietnam government. UNC-Vietnam is one of five IGHID flagship sites and one of four international clinical research sites (CRS) within the UNC Chapel Hill Clinical Trials Unit. The Vietnam CRS has access to a range of studies including investigations of ART, cure and immune modulators, HIV-associated disease and treatment complications and viral co-infections. The Vietnam CRS is currently conducting HPTN 083, an ongoing study of the efficacy of a long-acting injectable to prevent HIV in transgender women and men who have sex with men. UNC-Vietnam has longstanding collaborations with the Hanoi Medical University and the Vietnam Authority for HIV/AIDS Control of the MoH.
Dr. Telfair has devoted his 30-year career to, and is internationally known for, his research, teaching and practice in the areas of social epidemiology, cultural and linguistic competency, public health genetics, elimination of health inequities and disparities, community-based and rural health practice, program evaluation, and policy issues concerning women, adolescents and persons in under-resourced/under-served areas at the local, state, national and global levels.
He also focuses on health care issues for poor, rural and multi-cultural/multi-ethnic populations as well as advocacy for persons with chronic health conditions.
As a public health researcher and practitioner, Dr. Telfair uses and engages in participatory and mixed methods of research and evaluation, community-based and rural health practice, program evaluation and policy issues with local, national and global health leaders and governments.
Dr. Starling is an environmental epidemiologist with a focus on chemical exposures during critical periods of the life course and their influence on chronic disease risk. In her work with the Center for Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes, she studies biological pathways by which early life chemical exposures influence child metabolic health, including epigenetic mechanisms. Dr. Starling co-leads an NIEHS-funded study of chemical exposures during pregnancy and womenβs cardiometabolic health outcomes. She also serves as co-PI for the Colorado site of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registryβs national multi-site study of the health effects of exposure to mixtures of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water.
Dr. Lin is the Dennis Gillings Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the Center for AIDS Research.
Dr. Lin has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, most of which have appeared in leading statistical and genetic journals. He has made many fundamental contributions to statistical methods for the designs and analysis of biomedical studies, especially in the areas of survival analysis and statistical genetics. Several of his methods have been incorporated into commercial software packages and commonly used in biomedical studies. Dr. Lin has extensive applied research experience in cancer, AIDS, psychiatry and cardiovascular diseases.
Professor and Head - Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Lab Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE), King Mongkutβs University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, Thailand
Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
Shabbir H. Gheewala is a professor at the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE), Thailand where he teaches Life Cycle Assessment and heads the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Lab for over 20 years. His research focuses on sustainability assessment of energy systems; sustainability indicators; circular economy; and certification issues in biofuels and the agro-industry. He is a national expert on life cycle inventory as well as product carbon and water footprinting in Thailand. He mentors the research network on sustainability assessment and policy for food, fuel and climate change in Thailand. Along with graduate teaching and research, Prof. Shabbir has worked extensively with industry in Thailand providing training and consultancy to scores of companies with aspirations towards improvements in sustainability.
He has been ranked as one of the worldβs top 1000 most influential climate scientists (Reuterβs Hot List 2021) and the world's top 1% of the most-cited researchers in βearth and environmental sciencesβ (2020). More recently, he was awarded the βMahidol Science Environment & Sustainability Awardβ (2022). With over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals and a Scopus h-index of 52 as of August 2023, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sustainable Energy and Environment, Specialty Chief Editor of Quantitative Sustainability Assessment at Frontiers in Sustainability, and on the editorial boards of the Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (Springer), and a host of other international and national journals.
He can be contacted at shabbir.ghe@kmutt.ac.th and shabbirg@hotmail.com
Jacqueline Rollins Wynn, MPH is the director of health careers and workforce diversity and inclusion at NC AHEC. In her work at NC AHEC, she is primarily responsible for the statewide implementation of health careers and workforce diversity and development programs and activities, including the NC AHEC Scholars Program. Under her leadership and guidance, the nine regional Area Health Education Centers offer health careers and workforce diversity and development programs and activities to participants across the state. She is a co-founder of the North Carolina Alliance for Health Professions Diversity and the UNC Chapel Hill Health Affairs Pipeline Partnership Initiative. Additionally, she serves as the primary AHEC liaison to the UNC Chapel hill School of Public Health and School of Dentistry and to the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program, an inter-institutional program based at UNC Chapel Hill that works to increase the number of underrepresented individuals who are trained, educated, and employed in the health professions. She will be giving guest lectures and serving as a preceptor for practicums in PHLP.
Jacqueline has worked in various capacities and has served on major committees for the NC AHEC Program for the last 35 years. She served as the interim chief executive officer of the National AHEC Organization, as the only second-term president of the NAO, as president of the National Association of Medical Minority Educators, Inc., and was the managing editor of the award-winning North Carolina Health Careers manual. Jacqueline directed NC AHEC statewide Spanish interpreter trainings from 1998β2005 and traveled to Mexico with a statewide delegation of health care leaders to look at the health care system in Mexico City and Puebla.
She received a BS in zoology from North Carolina State University, a Master of Public Health in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina, and completed her coursework for a doctorate in health professions education from North Carolina State University. She is experienced in grant writing, project and budget administration and evaluation.
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John OβDonnell is Vice President, Worldwide Health Economics and Outcomes Research at Bristol-Myers Squibb. He leads a diverse global team of sixty scientists dedicated to defining, developing and delivering evidence of value to ensure patients, payers and providers have the best possible information about, and optimal access to, BMSβ innovative medicines. Over his career he has developed, launched and commercialized over 20 medicines in respiratory, cardiovascular, HCV, genito-urinary, transplant, diabetes, and oncology including the industry-leading BMS medicines in immuno-oncology, Yervoy and OPDIVO, and the blockbusters Advair, Crestor, Symbicort, Iressa, Daklinza and Eliquis.
Dr. OβDonnell is an international leader in health technology assessment with work experience in the US, Europe and Asia, and as a regional Head based in the US and UK. He is Chair of the Academy Health's Corporate Council, former Chair of the Institutional Council of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and was the lead author and editor of the Value in Health Special Issues, Health Technology Assessment in Evidence-Based Health Care Reimbursement Decisions Around the World and Personalized Medicine and the Role of Health Economics and Outcomes Research.
He holds a Masters in policy analysis and a Doctorate in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Β He has twenty six years of experience in health services and outcomes research in industry, in academia and in US State and Federal governments, with nearly twenty years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. While in government and academia, he advanced health policy research in rehabilitation services, veteransβ health and the aged through his work with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Duke Universityβs Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. He also analyzed optimal social service and primary care delivery models for foster care and geriatric team care.
He is Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has published in the areas of health economic evaluation, health policy, health services research, geriatrics and rehabilitation and is a reviewer for a number of leading journals.
