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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.

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.

Lisa Lieberman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences and Graduate Program Coordinator of the Master of Public Health Program at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Her research interests include mixed method research and evaluation of approaches to sex education, adolescent sexual decision-making, teen and adult tobacco control, and structural approaches to health promotion. Dr.

Asgeir Helgason is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden where he has been an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Oncology-Pathology and Public Health. He also is on the faculty of Reykjavik University, Iceland. Dr. Helgason is best known for his population-based research on sexual function in elderly men and prostate cancer patients.

Rose Marie Martinez is the Senior Board Director for the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice at the Institute of Medicine. The Board examines and develops strategies for health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan, taking into account the multiple factors affecting health.

Bill Livingood is on the faculty of the University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, where he has served as Director of the Institute for Health, Policy and Evaluation Research at the Duval County Health Department. He has been a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on numerous CDC, HRSA and other funded community-based applied research and evaluation projects that have involved the use of mixed methods.