Child Well-Being Research Network Members
The Child Well-Being Research Network is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice within research and in the community of researchers. We seek to build a collaborative, interdisciplinary network that promotes child well-being and maltreatment prevention through research that informs policy and practice. The application process for new members takes place annually; for more information on the application and selection process please visit the Apply to Network page.
Marissa Abbott
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Kristin Abner
ICF
April Allen
Spark Learning for Organizations LLC
Laetitia Mélissande M. Amédée
Université du Québec à Montréal
Jenna Montgomery Armstrong
RTI International
Julia Arroyo
College of Charleston
Aaron Banman
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Sheila Barnhart
University of Kentucky
Leah Bartley
Kaye Implementation & Evaluation, LLC
Kristen Belcher
UIC School of Public Health
Brandie Bentley
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rosemary Bernstein
University of California, San Francisco
Michelle Bezark
Start Early
China Bolden-Jarvis
University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital
Emily Adlin Bosk
Rutgers University
Clinton Boyd, Jr.
Chapin Hall at The University of Chicago
Jalika Breaux
American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine
Alexis Brieant
University of Vermont
Chequita S. Brown
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Scott Brown
Abt Associates
Shaquanna Brown
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Lindsey Bullinger
Georgia Tech University
Aditi Srivastav Bussells
University of South Carolina, Deloitte, & City of Columbia
Daniel Busso
Alex Busuito
Brown University Medical School
Kaela Byers
University of Kansas School of Social Welfare
Angela G. Cause
Oregon Department of Human Services
Mayra K. Cazares-Minero
UCLA's Center for the Transformation of Schools
Barbara H. Chaiyachati
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Natasha Chaku
Indiana University
Kristine Chan
Child Trends
Leah P. Cheatham
University of Alabama
Michael Chen
Nazareth College
Yafen Chen
Rutgers University
Bridget Cho
University of South Carolina Aiken
Karmel Choi
Harvard School of Public Health & Mass General Hospital
Shelby Clark
University of Kentucky School of Social Work
Kyndra Cleveland
University of California, Berkeley
Aislinn Conrad
University of Iowa
Catherine Corr
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gracelyn H. Cruden
Chestnut Health System, Lighthouse Institute
Jorge Cuartas
Harvard University
Kate Daderko
Seattle Psychology
Christina Danko
University of Maryland
Elizabeth Day
University of Oregon
Hannah Dee
College of Charleston
Scott Delaney
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Vanessa Delgado
Stony Brook University
Kelli Dickerson
University of California-Irvine
Carly B. Dierkhising
California State University-Los Angeles
Yonah Drazen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Duenas
University of Illinois, Springfield
Jackie Duron
Rutgers University
Andrea Lane Eastman
USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Wendy R. Ellis
George Washington University
Jessica H.L. Elm
Life Paths Research Center & Like the Tree Consulting
Hannah Espeleta
Medical University of South Carolina
Flora Farago
Stephen F. Austin State University
Kenneth Feder
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Megan Feely
University of Connecticut
Megan Finno-Velasquez
New Mexico State University
Julia M. Fleckman
Tulane University
Kelley Fong
University of California, Irvine
Sophia Frank
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Jennifer M. Geiger
University of Illinois Chicago
Alison Giovanelli
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, UCSF
Leah Gjertson
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Chelsea Smith Gonzalez
Atlassian
Marc Grau-Grau
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Max Gross
Mathematica
Whitney Grube
University of Kansas
Stephanie Gusler
University of Kentucky Center on Trauma and Children
Kate Golden Guzman
James Bell Associates
Justin Harty
Arizona State University School of Social Work
Brittany Hearne
Amazon
Tyler Hein
TRAILS
Charlotte Heleniak
Columbia University
Julia Hernández
UC Davis
Zoelene V. Hill
Center for Community Partnerships and Policy Solutions, New York Academy of Medicine
Brittany Hinkle
Howard University
Grace S. Hubel
College of Charleston
Lindsay Huffhines
Brown University
Tamara Hurst
University of Southern Mississippi
Shannon Sagert
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Debrielle Jacques
University of Rochester
Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner
University of Illinois at Chicago
Aubrey Jones
University of Kentucky
Francie Julien-Chinn
The University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Colleen Cary Katz
Hunter College, CUNY
Rachel Katz
Start Early
Elisa Kawam
Arizona State University
Brooks Keeshin
University of Utah
Reeve Kennedy
East Carolina University
Salima Kerai-Sayani
LaShawnda Kilgore
Children’s Defense Fund
Mollie E. Rischard Kimrey
The University of Tulsa
J. Bart Klika
Prevent Child Abuse America
Jerica Knox
National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
Chie Kotake
Tufts University
Catherine Kuhns
The Urban Institute
Paul Lanier
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joyce Y. Lee
The Ohio State University College of Social Work
Brianna Lemmons
Baylor University
Ericka M. Lewis
University of Maryland
Yuerong Liu
Duke University
Metzli Augustina Lombera
Pennsylvania State University
Francesca Longo
Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families
Alysse Loomis
University of Utah
Jaymie Lorthridge
Kaye Implementation & Evaluation, LLC
Rachel Ludeke
Thomas Jefferson University
Megan Madison
Center for Racial Justice in Education
Kathryn Maguire-Jack
University of Michigan
Katherine Marçal
Rutgers University
Melissa Marquardt
Private Practice
Erin Marsh
Polaris
Prerna Martin
UCLA
Meredith Matone
PolicyLab at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Christine McClure
University of Pittsburgh
Sandra Nay McCourt
Duke University
Elizabeth McGuier
University of Pittsburgh
Kelly Jedd McKenzie
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Samson Mhizha
University of Zimbabwe, Harare & University of Pretoria
Joseph Mienko
University of Washington
Brittany Paige Mihalec-Adkins
Casey Family Programs
Justin “Jay” Miller
University of Kentucky
Sheridan Miyamoto
Pennsylvania State University
Christina Mondi-Rago
Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Deborah J. Moon
University of Pittsburgh
Casie Hope Morgan
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jennifer A. Mortensen
University of Nevada-Reno
Shreya Mukhopadhyay
Child Trends
Christina Myers
University of Illinois at Chicago
María Gandarilla Ocampo
The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
Kerrie Ocasio
West Chester University
Nathanael Okpych
University of Connecticut
Natalia Orendain
UCLA
Caitlyn R. Owens
James Madison University/ Triple P America
Christina Padilla
Child Trends
Pennsylvania State University
Jared Parrish
Alaska Department of Health and Human Services
Katherine Paschall
Child Trends
Megan Hayes Piel
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Byron J. Powell
Washington University in St. Louis
Sarah Prendergast
Urban Institute
Doris Pu
NYU Child Study Center
Kerri Raissian
University of Connecticut
Tingting Reid
University of Hildesheim, Germany
Katherine Ridge
University of Minnesota
James Dontaè Roberts
Winston Salem State University
Cassandra Robertson
New America
Tia McGill Rogers
University of New England & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Abigail M. Ross
Fordham University
Whitney Rostad
Abt Associates
Dakota Roundtree-Swain
University of Massachusetts
Candace Sapp
University of Tennessee- Knoxville
Lisa Schelbe
Florida State University
Anika Schenck-Fontaine
Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA)
William Schneider
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Annie Davis Schoch
Child Trends
Alayna Schreier
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Maria Schweer-Collins
University of Oregon
Judith C. Scott
Boston University School of Social Work
Kristen D. Seay
University of South Carolina
Jennifer Daer Shields
Mercy Health System
Elizabeth Shuey
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Estelle Simard
University of Minnesota Duluth
James Simon
California State University Los Angeles
DeAnna Y. Smith
University of Michigan
Natasha Smith
The University of Alabama
Kate Stepleton
MEF Associates
Lin Sun
Indiana University Bloomington
Sarah M. Tashjian
University of Melbourne
Sol E. Thomas
University of St. Thomas
Camie A. Tomlinson
University of Louisville
Amanda Van Scoyoc
Yale Child Study Center
Natalia Walsh
University of California, San Diego
Tova B. Walsh
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Xiafei Wang
Syracuse University
Emily Warren
Council for Large Public Housing Authorities
Durrell Malik Washington Sr.
University of Chicago
Ashley Watson
Georgia State University
Lindsey E.G. Weil
Amazon
Jessica Wilen
Yale School of Medicine
Lindsay Zajac
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Liwei Zhang
University of Georgia