The purpose of the Communications Committee is to coordinate and guide SER’s communications to its members and to the general public. The committee also helps ensure regular and ongoing communication between SER’s members and the organization. The committee has primary responsibility for SERnews, the SER newsletter, for SER’s communication via social media, and for other forms of communication generated by SER.
Magdalena Cerda
Communications Committee Co-Chair
Magdalena Cerda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health at New York University School of Medicine, and the Director of the NYU Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy. In her research, Dr. Cerdá integrates approaches from social and psychiatric epidemiology to examine how social contexts shape violent behavior, substance use and common forms of mental illness. Dr. Cerdá is currently funded to evaluate the impact that prescription opioid policies and marijuana laws have on substance use in the United States and in Latin America, and to identify the potential impact that firearms disqualification criteria could have on population rates of firearm violence.
Contact
Department of Population Health
NYU School of Medicine
180 Madison Avenue, Room 416
New York, NY, 10016
Phone: 646-501-3649
Email: magdalena.cerda@nyumc.org
Sunni Mumford
Communications Committee Co-Chair
Sunni Mumford, Ph.D., is an Earl Stadtman Investigator in the Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr. Mumford’s research focuses on the interplay between diet and male and female reproductive health and fertility.
Contact
Anusha Vable
Communications Committee Co-Chair
Dr. Anusha M. Vable is a Social Epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Family and Community Medicine & the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Substantively, Dr. Vable’s work focuses on identifying scalable, population-level solutions to racial and socioeconomic disparities in health. To date, Dr. Vable’s work has focused on the Korean War and Vietnam War GI Bills, both of which provided generous college education subsidies; she found GI Bill edibility predicted smaller socioeconomic disparities in markers of mental, physical, and cognitive health among veterans compared to non-veterans. Methodologically, Dr. Vable’s expertise is in matching methods and the measurement of childhood socioeconomic status.
Contact
University of California, San Francisco
Mission Hall, x2652
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
anusha.vable@ucsf.edu
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Cameron Haas
Deirdre Tobias
Ellie Murray
Emily Ricotta
Hannah Ziobrowski
Jason Gantenberg
Malcolm Barret
Marynia Kolak
Mathew Kiang
Mitra Mosslemi
Molly Franke
Rachel Sippy
Sarah Twardowski
Talha Ali
Tim Feeney
Yongfu Yu