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John Allegrante is the senior Professor of Health Education in Health and Behavior Studies at Teachers College and Adjunct Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Allegrante’s research has focused on behavioral self-management and health outcomes in chronic disease, threats to child and adolescent health, and health promotion workforce development.

Ana Abraido-Lanza is Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Director of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Her research centers on cultural, psychosocial, and structural factors that affect psychological well-being, adjustment to chronic illness, and mortality among Latinos; health disparities between Latinos and non-Latino whites; and the health of immigrant Latinos. Dr.

Derek Griffith is Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, and Director of the Institute for Research on Men’s Health at Vanderbilt University. He is also a faculty member in the Institute for Medicine and Public Health, the Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

Collins Airhihenbuwa is Professor and Head of the Department of Biobehavioral Health at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interest is health and culture and he is the author of the PEN-3 model and co-author of critical race theory applied to public health.

Kate Lorig is the Director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center and Professor of Medicine in the Stanford School of Medicine. She came to Stanford in 1979 while a graduate student at Cal to develop and research an educational program that emphasized self-help skills for people with arthritis.

Robert Goodman is Professor of Applied Health Science and former Dean of the School of Public Health at Indiana University, Bloomington. A Past President and Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education, Dr. Goodman has held faculty appointments at several universities, including the University of Pittsburgh, Tulane, Wake Forest, Xavier, and the Universities of North Carolina and South Carolina.

Jesus Ramirez-Valles is Professor and Director of Community Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. His research interests include health education and health promotion; community organizing; sociology of health, race, gender, sexual orientation; HIV/AIDS; and aging and health. A former Associate Editor for Health Education & Behavior, Dr. Ramirez-Valles is the Editor-in-Chief of Health Promotion Practice.

Karen Glanz is a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor and George A. Weiss University Professor, director of the Center for Health Behavior Research, and a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research bridges the public health and social science disciplines and focuses on nutrition and obesity, skin cancer prevention, tobacco control, and cancer screening. Dr.

Bruce Simons-Morton is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Prevention Research Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, where he has led an intramural research group that studies adolescent health behavior, including substance use, social influence, and novice teenage driving, since 1997. His primary research interests include prevention of early adolescent problem behaviors and motor vehicle crashes among novice young drivers. Dr.

Shiriki Kumanyika is Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the Founding Director of Penn's interdisciplinary, multi-school Master of Public Health program and where she currently serves as the Senior Advisor to the Center for Public Health Initiatives. Her research focuses on identifying effective strategies to reduce nutrition-related chronic disease risks. Dr.

Mary Story is Professor of Community & Family Medicine and Global Health and Associate Director for Academic Programs at the Duke Global Health Institute. A leading scholar in child and adolescent nutrition and child obesity prevention, she directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national Healthy Eating Research program.

Donald Morisky is Professor of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where he has served as Vice-Chair of the Department and directs the doctoral training program in the Social and Behavioral Determinants of HIV/AIDS at UCLA. Dr.