ACHIEVE is a consortium of four leading U.S. academic research institutions with long-standing research and training collaborations across the U.S., SSA, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Each institution features experienced mentors with a strong focus on dissemination and implementation, data science, and global health, across a number of focus areas.
The following academic research institutions comprise the ACHIEVE consortium. :
Washington University in St. Louis – Brown School & School of Medicine
| Institution | Name | Title | Department | Research Description |
| Washington University in St. Louis | An, Ruopeng | Assoc. Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Environmental influences on weight-related behaviors/outcomes across life course; application of artificial intelligence and big data analytics in public health |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Barnes, Sheretta | Assoc. Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Developmental psychology; quantitative statistics |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Brownson, Ross | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Implementation science; cancer epidemiology |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Cabassa, Leopoldo | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Examining physical and mental health disparities in marginalized populations; implementation science, mental health services |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Cavazos-Regh, Patricia | Professor | Psychiatry | Health, adolescent mental health, social media |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Chen, Li-Shiun | Assoc. Professor | Psychiatry | Implementation science; smoking cessation programs in low-resources settings; schizophrenia, mood disorders, addiction, personality disorder, community psychiatry, telepsychiatry, cancer psychiatry |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Davila-Roman, Victor | Professor | Medicine – Cardiology | Mechanisms leading to CV dysfunction and response to treatment in CV disorders such as hypertension, systolic and diastolic heart failure, LV hypertrophy, diabetic cardiomyopathy and obesity |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Foraker, Randi | Assoc. Professor | Medicine – General Medical Sciences | Population health informatics; clinical decision support to complement risk scoring in primary care, cardiology and oncology |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Fowler, Patrick | Assoc. Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Complex systems evaluation, administrative data sets |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Geng, Elvin | Professor | Infectious Diseases | Implementation research, HIV, engagement in treatment and care |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Haire-Joshu, Debra | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Dissemination, implementation, and scalability of evidence- based diabetes prevention practices |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Hammond, Ross | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Agent-based modeling |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Harris, Jenine | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Quantitative research; Diversity in STEM workforce |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Huffman, Mark | Professor of Medicine; Co-Director Global Health Center | Division of Cardiology; Institute for Public Health | Global cardiovascular implementation science, health system, and policy research |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Hunleth, Jean | Associate Professor | Surgery and Anthropology | The experience of caregiving and treatment seeking for infectious and chronic diseases in Africa and in the United States; Children’s experiences of and responses to illness, medicine, and health programming |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Iannotti, Lora | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Undernutrition in low-resource settings |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Johnson, Kim | Assoc. Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Pediatric cancer epidemiology |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Jonson-Reid, Melissa | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Behavioral, educational and health outcomes associated with childhood exposure to trauma |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Lu, Chenyang | Professor | Computer Science and Engineering | Clinical machine learning, mobile health, internet of things |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Marotta, Phillip | Asst. Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | HIV care continuum for justice-involved persons with substance use disorders; medication-assisted treatments for opioid use disorders (OUD) in jails and prisons; dyadic analysis of HIV prevention intervention data; youth substance use prevention and treatment |
| Washington University in St. Louis | McKay, Mary | Dean | Public Health/ Social Work | Child-and family-focused HIV prevention and care; public health interventions to strengthen families, communities and systems |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Nabunya, Proscovia | Asst. Professor | Social Work/ Public Health | HIV-associated stigma, Family and community-based support systems as protective factors for the development and well-being of children and families impacted by HIV/AIDS |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Powell, Byron | Asst. Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Implementation research, behavioral health, qualitative and mixed-methods research, community-engaged research |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Sensoy Bahar, Ozge | Asst. Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Qualitative research in low- resource settings, migration and child labor |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Silver, Michelle | Assistant Professor | Surgery | Applied/translational epidemiology, and how to best use the results of epidemiologic studies to make and implement evidence-based decisions in cancer screening and prevention |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Siqueira Reis, Rodrigo | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Environmental determinants and correlates of physical activity and obesity across diverse populations in LMICs |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Ssewamala, Fred | Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Family-based economic empowerment and social protection interventions; global health |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Stark, Lindsay | Assoc. Professor | Public Health/ Social Work | Protection and well-being of women and children in situations of extreme adversity |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Sun, Bhaozhou | Asst. Professor | Radiation Oncology | Radiotherapy QI, imaging- guided radiotherapy, proton therapy, imaging segmentation, big data, and the use of machine learning |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Tarr, Phillip | Professor | Pediatrics | Gut microbiome in childhood development and growth |
Boston College – School of Social Work
| Institution | Name | Title | Department | Research Description |
| Boston College | Betancourt, Theresa | Professor | Social Work | Developmental and psychosocial consequences of concentrated adversity on children, youth and families; resilience and protective processes in child and adolescent mental health and child development; refugee families; and applied cross-cultural mental health research. |
| Boston College | Crea, Thomas | Professor | Social Work | Implementation science, global mental health, child welfare and protection, and forced migration |
| Boston College | Davison, Kristen | Professor | Social Work | Childhood obesity |
| Boston College | Desrosiers, Alethea | Asst. Professor | Social Work | Examining emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic risk factor across psychological disorders; mhealth |
| Boston College | Kumar, Praveen | Asst. Professor | Environmental Studies | Poverty, environmental justice; multilevel modeling and Systems Sciences particularly egocentric social network analysis |
| Boston College | Lai, Betty | Assoc. Professor | Counseling, Education, and Developmental Psychology | Advanced statistical techniques, including structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling |
| Boston College | Levine Coley, Rebekah | Professor | Counseling, Developmental & Educational Psychology | Delineating and counteracting social and economic inequities affecting child and youth health and development |
| Boston College | Morelli, Gilda | Assoc. Professor | Social Work | Sociocultural and ecological factors in young children’s opportunities for social learning in small scale societies in DR Congo |
| Boston College | Pineros Leano, Maria | Asst. Professor | Social Work | Adapt and test family-based interventions to promote positive parenting and family cohesion to improve mental health outcomes |
| Boston College | Salas-Wright, Christopher | Professor | Social Work | Stress and resilience among immigrants, alcohol and drug use epidemiology, and the prevention of adolescent problem behavior |
New York University – School of Global Public Health & Grossman School of Medicine
| Institution | Name | Title | Department | Research Description |
| New York University | Adhikari, Samrachana | Asst. Professor | Biostatistics | Data science: comparative effectiveness methods, causal inference, predictive modeling, social network analysis, and social survey research |
| New York University | Armstrong-Hough, Mari | Asst. Professor | Global Public Health | Intersection of communicable diseases (HIV and TB) with non-communicable diseases (diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease) |
| New York University | Bershteyn, Anna | Asst. Professor | Population Health | Predictive modeling, mathematical modeling of high-casualty ID epidemics; |
| New York University | Betensky, Rebecca | Professor, Chair of Dept. of Biostatistics | Biostatistics | biostatistics, neuro-focused methods research; |
| New York University | Braithwaite, Scott | Professor | Medicine, Population Health | Decision analytic modeling; comparative effectiveness research/analysis |
| New York University | Chunara, Rumi | Assoc. Professor | Computer Science & Biostatistics | Social determinants, machine learning |
| New York University | Cook, Stephanie | Asst. Professor | Biostatistics | Development of statistical models for determining associations between biological and behavioral risk factors and health outcomes |
| New York University | Dickson, Vickey | Assoc. Professor | Nursing | Cardiovascular and occupational health nursing |
| New York University | Greene, Dena Schulman | Assoc. Professor | Nursing | Self/family management and palliative care |
| New York University | Hagan, Holly | Professor | Global Public Health | Treatment and surveillance of blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections in underserved and vulnerable populations |
| New York University | Huang, Keng-Yen | Assoc. Professor | Population Health and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | mHealth solutions, complex intervention implementation, child and adolescent behavioral health |
| New York University | Khan, Maria R. | Assoc. Professor | Population Health | Comparative effectiveness and implementation research training; infectious disease epidemiology and novel HIV; comorbid disease intervention |
| New York University | Klar, Robin | Assoc. Professor | Nursing | Maternal and child health |
| New York University | Lanier, Yzette | Asst. Professor | Nursing | Psychosocial development of children, adolescents, and young adults |
| New York University | Lyndon, Audrey | Professor | Nursing | Safety, communication, and teamwork in maternity and neonatal settings |
| New York University | Moucheraud, Corrina | Assoc. Professor | Public Health Policy and Management | Implementation science, improve outcomes by strengthening health systems and enabling the delivery of effective, equitable health services, with emphasis on young women and girls |
| New York University | Navario, Peter | Exec. Director | HealthRight | Health system strengthening in LMICs |
| New York University | Navarra, Ann Margaret | Asst. Professor | Nursing | Adherence to Antiretroviral treatment among HIV-infected youth |
| New York University | Ompad, Danielle | Assoc. Professor | Epidemiology | Infectious disease epidemiology, with specific expertise in HIV, drug use, sexual risk behaviors, adult access to vaccines, and minority and marginalized populations |
| New York University | Pagan, Jose | Professor | Public Health Policy and Management | Statistical/simulation modeling, intervention design and program assessment, database construction |
| New York University | Parkekh, Niyati | Professor | Public Health Nutrition | Role of nutrition and diet- related factors in the etiology of non-communicable diseases |
| New York University | Peprah, Emmanuel | Asst. Professor | Global Public Health | Implementation Science in routine clinical practice and community settings for sickle cell disease, obstetric hemorrhage, people living with HIV/AIDS (PWH) |
| New York University | Schwartz, Mark D | Professor | Population Health | Large-scale epidemiologic studies of predictors of diabetes and intervention studies; health service transformation policy |
| New York University | Shelley, Donna | Professor | Health Policy & Management | Tobacco control, implementation research |
| New York University | Silverman, Andrea Idette | Asst. Professor | Engineering | Detection, quantification, and disinfection of waterborne pathogens |
| New York University | Tozan, Yesim | Asst. Professor | Global Public Health | Economic burden of disease and the costs and cost- effectiveness of public health interventions in low- and middle-income countries |
| New York University | Vedanthan, Rajesh | Assoc. Professor | Population Health, Medicine | Global health, chronic disease management, systems, implementation science |
| New York University | Yang, Lawrence | Assoc. Professor | Epidemiology | Stigma associated with mental health and HIV, in LMIC |
University of Illinois Chicago – Center for Global Health, College of Medicine
| Institution | Name | Title | Department | Research Description |
| University of Illinois, Chicago | Dykens, J. Andrew | Assoc. Professor | Family and Community Medicine | Implementation of sustainable cervical cancer screening programs through capacity building, quality improvement, and behavioral interventions in rural Senegal |
| University of Illinois, Chicago | Shah, Reshma | Assoc. Professor | Pediatrics | Implementation of healthcare- based programs in LMICs |
| University of Illinois, Chicago | Weine, Stevan | Professor | Psychiatry | Refugees and migrants in the U.S. and post-conflict countries, focused on health and violence prevention |