As a health communication scholar, Rebekah Perkins Crawford uses feminist, narrative, gender, and queer theories to focus on building equity, inclusion, and engagement for health at the community level. Her early work illuminated the role faith-based organizations play in providing alternate, community contexts of mental health care. 

Dr. Karayánnis’ s  mission as a physiotherapist-scientist is to provide precise patient-treatment matching of adaptive mind-body interventions for people living with spinal pain. Ultimately, we intend to refine the content and delivery of somatically focused, psychologically informed, and neuroscientific-based mind-body training practices to promote valued activity engagement and cultivate eudaimonic wellbeing.

Mao as an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Specialty Medicine and the Diabetes Institute at Ohio University. He also works with OhioHealth as an endocrinologist in the Castrop Center and at O’Bleness Hospital. He has significant clinical and research experience in human health and diseases, specializing in diabetes, thyroid diseases, osteoporosis, and other endocrine disorders. He has practiced as physician for over 20 years and has numerous publications on highly ranked journals.

Shaw, MSW, LISW-S, CHW is the Community Health Worker Lead for the Ohio University Alliance for Population Health. She has twenty years of practice experience in southeast Ohio as a school social worker, counselor, program developer, and educator.

Myrna Perez is Associate Professor at Ohio University, jointly appointed in Classics & Religious Studies and in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Science from Harvard University. She was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rice University and has been a fellow at the Harvard Divinity School and in the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University.

Forney is dedicated to alleviating the burden associated with eating disorders and disordered eating. Her research focuses on social (peers), psychological (body image concerns, anxiety), and biological (weight loss, gastrointestinal symptoms) factors that increase the risk for eating disorders and maintain symptoms over time. By identifying which factors are responsible for eating disorders, prevention and treatment efforts can be tailored to improve outcomes.

Beverly is an associate professor in the Department of Primary Care at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and the recipient of the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Faculty Fellow in Behavioral Diabetes.

Beverly graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biobehavioral Health and a minor in Gerontology in 2008. She completed a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in diabetes at Harvard Medical School with the Joslin Diabetes Center in 2013.

Rosol, DVM, PhD, MBA is a professor of veterinary and toxicologic pathology, Chair of Biomedical Sciences at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists.

Thomas’ career centers on addressing the health needs of communities by designing, implementing and evaluating community-led health education and promotion initiatives, especially in the area of cancer health disparities.  After combining her undergraduate degrees in political science, Spanish, and psychology, and a graduate degree in administration with a Ph.D.

Peters' interdisciplinary, multi-method program of research seeks to understand psychological, cognitive, and physiological processes in relationship contexts. He examines how responses to social stressors, both internal and external to the relationship, influence online physiological and affective responses, and downstream decisions, behaviors and health outcomes.