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. 

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.

Perez Sheldon is an associate professor jointly appointed in Classics and Religious Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as executive director of the Cutler Scholar’s Program at Ohio University. She is a historian of evolutionary theory, a feminist and critical -race theorist, and a scholar of religion. She earned her Ph.D. from the History of Science Department at Harvard University and has previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University.

Jungkunz is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Provost-awarded Transformative Faculty Member, Dean’s Outstanding Teacher, and University Professor at Ohio University.  His theorizing, research, and writing have focused on Critical Race Theory, Whiteness, Democratic Theory, Feminist Theory, Gender, Political Theory, Law & Society, Politics of Resistance, Silence, Identity Formation, and American Politics.  He teaches a wide range of courses on Critical Race Theory, Democratic Theory, Law and Society, Political Theory and American Politics including: “Ameri

González Vallejo’s expertise is in decision analysis, statistics, and the psychology of judgment and decision-making. She has prior experience in international affairs working for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and public policy working for the Center for Policy Research at the Rockefeller College, SUNY at Albany. More recently, she worked as Program Analyst at the U.S. State Department, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations.

Ng is an associate professor at Ohio University, in the School of Media Arts and Studies and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

“People are sometimes surprised to learn that a political scientist is on faculty at a medical school,” Skinner said. “But politics is at the heart of the policy process, and shapes everything from how professional relationships are formed to changes in our health care system. We need to be politically astute to make good policy, and we need physicians to be involved in these decisions.”

Dr. Fredricks is a physician, medical educator and veteran who draws on his 25 years of military experience and his practice of family and emergency medicine to inform his efforts to improve health care for veterans.

Dr. Morrone is an expert on food safety in America. A credentialed food safety professional, Morrone is also the former chief of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Education.

Morrone has focused her career on examining the relationship between environmental contamination and human health outcomes, including exploring disproportionate exposures in low-income areas.

Longenecker’s extensive experience as both clinician and educator have given him a strong understanding of the challenges facing physicians who choose to practice in medically underserved rural or urban areas – as well as the best ways to encourage and prepare more physicians-in-training to make this choice.