Dr. Jinnett is an implementation scientist, systems researcher, pro-social activist and lifelong learner. She has over three decades of professional experience as executive leader, social scientist, practitioner and educator across a variety of sectors (nonprofit, commercial, philanthropic and government) and industries including health, education, housing, social services, biopharmaceutical. She is founder and chief executive officer of GoodWorkRegistry, a pro-social research, learning and evaluation organization focused on worker health and wellbeing.
Julene K Johnson, PhD is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging. She is co-director of the Sound Health Network, which is a partnership between UCSF and the National Endowment for the Arts. She also leads the NIH/NIA U24 "Music & Dementia Research Network" and is the UCSF site principal investigator for the National Science Foundation-funded AccelNet. She is a long-standing faculty mentor in the UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (a NIA-funded Resource Center for Minority Aging Research). Dr.
Kristen Kirksey is the Project Director for Innovations in Counseling and Follow-up (ICAF), which aims to develop and test interventions to improve contraceptive counseling and follow-up care in Ethiopia and Kenya. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Connecticut and an MPH from Tulane University. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to advance her research, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health.
Kirsten Liu, MSW, is a project policy analyst in the Institute for Health & Aging at the UCSF School of Nursing. At UCSF, she currently works on an NIH-funded project dedicated toward understanding the life of people living alone with cognitive impairment in the United States and developing public policy recommendations to enhance well-being of people living alone with cognitive impairment in the United States. Kirsten earned her MSW at UC Berkeley, and her B.A. in Sociology at UCLA.
Jenny Liu, PhD, MPP, is a health economist and implementation scientist focused on the delivery and utilization of reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) services through innovative delivery channels. In partnership with donors, implementers, and governments, she has developed programs/interventions using human-centered design and behavioral economics, evaluated their effectiveness, and conducted comprehensive impact evaluations.
Natalia Maldonado is a Project Policy Analyst II at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Health & Aging at UCSF School of Nursing. She also serves as the Project Manager for the IUSE PROGRESS study, which aims to recruit and mentor STEM undergraduates who identify as women and are interested in Earth and Environmental Sciences. This initiative combines formal and informal mentoring, both professional and peer-based. Natalia holds a B.A. in Criminology and Justice Studies from Cal Poly Humboldt State University.
Dr. Mock conducts collaborative action research examining how people’s cultural context shapes their patterns of tobacco, nicotine and cannabis use. As a health anthropologist, for over two decades, Dr. Mock has focused on examining how and why people’s lived experience of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure is deeply rooted in culture. His research explores how cultural and political-economic change can influence tobacco use within a cultural group.
As a medical anthropologist, health services researcher, and certified yoga therapist, Dr. Nicosia's research focuses on improving pain, function, and quality of life outcomes for older adults, women, and veterans through nonpharmacologic and complementary and integrative health (CIH) interventions and care models. She has broad expertise in research methodology related to the design of mixed methods studies in aging, CIH, and implementation science.
Dr. Oliva is focused on promoting health and social supports for older adults and individuals with one or more disability to age in place in their selected communities. Her current mixed methods research activities are focused on evaluating how older adults’ and disabled populations’ health needs are best identified and addressed by and in their local communities/county jurisdictions, with the aim of mitigating serious health impacts from potentially harmful climate-related events/ other hazardous community events.
