Appendix B

Biosketches

MEGAN AMATURO (she/her/hers) is senior project manager with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Prior to joining the IACP, she was a police officer at both local and federal levels, having served at the Arlington County (Virginia) Police Department and the Supreme Court of the United States Police Department. In Amaturo’s current role, she oversees several officer wellness projects, including the National Consortium on Preventing Law Enforcement Suicide. This group of multidisciplinary experts leads the field in continually assessing and addressing evolving law enforcement mental health needs, with the common goal of preventing law enforcement suicide. As part of her position on the Consortium, she has worked closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the development, launch, and application of the Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection portal. Amaturo has a BS in law and society from Frostburg State University and an MBA from Wheeling University. She will soon begin an MPH program at Johns Hopkins University.

ANTHONY A. ARITA (he/him/his) is a clinical psychologist at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Health Security. As senior advisor of psychological readiness, he serves as the Department’s subject matter expert across a broad range of psychological health and operational psychology issues, including suicide prevention, psychological resilience, mental health stigma, and law enforcement mental health. Arita is engaged in numerous interagency efforts to address suicide prevention and mental health, including the National Consortium on Preventing Law Enforcement Suicide. Prior to his current position, he served 25 years of active duty in the

U.S. Navy as a clinical psychologist. During his military career, Arita’s work covered a breadth of psychological health issues involving clinical care, research, strategy, policy, and programs; he was also engaged in operational psychology consultation to include threat assessment, screening/selection, security clearance issues, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal investigation. Arita completed his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Kentucky and a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

ALINA ARSENIEV-KOEHLER (she/her/hers) is a National Library of Medicine T15 postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, in the division of biomedical informatics. She is also assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University (on leave through 2024 for this postdoctoral training). Arseniev-Koehler’s research examines topics at the intersection of health, culture, and social categorization (e.g., gender and illness). Methodologically, she specializes in computational approaches to working with text data. Across several projects, she developed and used natural language processing techniques to extract insights from written summaries of violent deaths in the National Violent Death Reporting System. Through her ongoing postdoctoral training, Arseniev-Koehler will bridge sociological perspectives on health and culture with the problems addressed by biomedical informatics (e.g., unlocking cultural determinants of health in clinical text data). She received a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

MICHELLE AURELIUS (she/her/hers) is North Carolina’s chief medical examiner; she is also clinical professor of pathology at the University of North Carolina. Previously, she served as North Carolina’s deputy chief medical examiner, briefly encompassing the role of interim chief toxicologist. Aurelius also served the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator as assistant chief medical investigator and hospital autopsy director. She holds triple board certifications in anatomic, clinical, and forensic pathology. Aurelius has performed and supervised more than 3,500 autopsies, reviewed or produced more than 6,000 medicolegal death investigation reports, and testified in state and federal courts. She completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and her forensic pathology fellowship at the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

KATHRYN R. BATTS (she/her/hers) is senior research psychologist in RTI International’s health practice area. With a background in psychology and psychiatric epidemiology, Batts has extensive experience in assessing

symptoms of mental health and substance use disorders among adults and children in the general population, as well as special populations, including the military. She is coauthor of several psychiatric assessment instruments, including the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, Version IV, and the Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents—Adolescent Version. Her current work focuses on collecting and analyzing behavioral health data with specific emphasis on co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and major depressive disorder. Batts has an MA in psychiatric epidemiology and a PhD in community psychology.

TERRENCE M. CUNNINGHAM (retired) serves as deputy executive director/chief operating officer of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). He oversees the day-to-day operations of the IACP and advances the association’s efforts to serve its membership and the policing profession through advocacy, training, education, and outreach. Cunningham served the Wellesley (Massachusetts) Police Department for 35 years, with 17 years as chief. He has also served as president of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association (MCOPA) and as an executive board member of the MCOPA, the Greater Boston Police Council, and the New England Association of Chiefs of Police. He is founder and past president of the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council and IACP. Cunningham is a graduate of the New England Institute of Law Enforcement Management at Babson College; the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy; the Federal Bureau of Investigation Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar; and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, executive education. He holds both a BS and MS from Northeastern University.

BRANDON DEL POZO (planning committee member, he/him/his) is assistant professor of medicine and health services, policy, and practice (research) at Brown University. He comes to research from 19 years in the New York City Police Department (NYPD), and 4 years as chief of police in Burlington, Vermont. At the NYPD, del Pozo commanded two patrol precincts and served as policy analyst and strategic planner for the police commissioner. In Burlington, he designed and implemented the city’s public health response to the opioid crisis. His research, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, studies police responses to the overdose crisis, emphasizing approaches that protect officer mental health and wellness. del Pozo has expertise in collecting and interpretating police administrative data, and criminal justice policy design and implementation. He has been awarded the Police Executive Research Forum’s Gary Hayes Award for excellence in police leadership and innovation, and he serves as an executive fellow at the National Policing Institute. del Pozo received a PhD in philosophy from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York,

an MA in criminal justice from John Jay College, an MPA from Harvard University, and an AB from Dartmouth College.

ADRIAN Z. DIAZ (he/him/his) is chief for the Seattle (Washington) Police Department (SPD). He has served the SPD for more than two decades. Diaz works to build relationships that bridge race, ethnicity, and other avenues of human difference. This work can be seen across the department and in every neighborhood in Seattle. Diaz earned a BA in criminal justice from Central Washington University and an MPA in public administration from the University of Washington. He also graduated from the Major Cities Chiefs Association Police Executive Leadership Institute.

NATASHA A. FROST (planning committee member, she/her/hers) is professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice; associate dean of research in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities; and codirector of the Center on Crime, Race, and Justice at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration. Frost has been awarded National Institute of Justice funding for a series of research projects related to officer health and well-being, with a specific focus on psychological distress and suicide among correction officers. Her most recent project, a longitudinal study of the careers of correction officers, seeks to distinguish the short- and long-term impacts of chronic operational and organizational stressors from impacts associated with exposures to violence and suicide. Frost was recently elected vice president of the American Society of Criminology. She holds a PhD in criminal justice from the City University of New York and an undergraduate degree in psychology from Northeastern University.

SARAH GILLESPIE (she/her/hers) is national employee assistance program coordinator for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. During her tenure, she has worked at five institutions, including three tours as chief psychologist. In her current position she oversees 130 peer-support teams and the provision of employee assistance program services for 35,000 staff. Gillespie’s current research focuses on understanding the risk factors for suicide in federal corrections and the role of suicide postvention in supporting resilience. She specializes in the use of peer support to enhance correctional worker wellness and resilience. Gillespie is currently serving on three White House Interagency Policy Committees looking to advance suicide prevention in communities. She received a PsyD in clinical psychology from the University of Denver.

JOEL B. GREENHOUSE (planning committee co-chair, he/him/his) is professor of statistics and data science at Carnegie Mellon University and

adjunct professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. His statistical research interests include applications of Bayesian methods in practice and issues related to combining information from multiple data sources, especially as used to synthesize evidence for making policy and for scientific discovery. Greenhouse’s collaborative research has included applications in mental health, including suicide research, communication disorders, education, and transportation safety. He has served on several committees and panels with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including the Committee on National Statistics, the Panel on Combining Information, and the Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions. Greenhouse is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has also served on numerous data and safety monitoring boards and scientific advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Health Administration. Greenhouse received a PhD and an MPH in biostatistics from the University of Michigan and a BS in mathematics from the University of Maryland.

ROBERT M. GROVES (he/him/his) is provost of Georgetown University and Gerard Campbell, SJ professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department and the Sociology Department. He is a social statistician who studies the impact of social cognitive and behavioral influences on the quality of statistical information. Groves’ research has focused on the impact of mode of data collection on responses in sample surveys, the social and political influences on survey participation, the use of adaptive research designs to improve the cost and error properties of statistics, and public concerns about privacy affecting attitudes toward statistical agencies. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association; and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Groves is the outgoing chair of the National Academies Committee on National Statistics. He was director of the U.S. Census Bureau (presidential appointment with Senate confirmation), a position he assumed after being director of the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, professor of sociology, and research professor at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Out of his many authored and coauthored publications, Groves’ book (Survey Errors and Survey Costs) was named one of the most influential books in an American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) survey. Additionally, his book (Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys) and a book he coauthored with Mick Couper (Survey Nonresponse) have received the AAPOR Book Award.

JANICE IWAMA (planning committee member, she/her/hers) is assistant professor in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology at American University in Washington, DC. She previously worked as a research analyst with the Justice Research and Statistics Association in Washington, DC, and the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 15 years of research experience, Iwama has worked with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to help them develop methods for collecting, processing, and analyzing their data to answer public policy questions and understand the effects of policing policies and practices on communities and crime. Her research has been published in several scholarly journals, including Criminology & Public Policy, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. Iwama recently received the National Institute of Justice Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Scholars Program Award for her commitment to advancing and integrating science into law enforcement policies and practice. She received her PhD in criminology and justice policy from Northeastern University.

ROB JEFFREYS (he/him/his) is director of the Nebraska Department of Corrections Services. He currently serves as vice president of the Correctional Leadership Association and chairman of its Racial Disparities Committee and on several Department of Justice steering committees, including the National Institute of Corrections’s Restrictive Housing Committee and the Bureau of Justice Assistance/The Moss Group’s Improving Institutional Corrections Academy Training committees. Jeffreys recently was director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, leading criminal justice policy reform. He has also served at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, he held several senior-level positions, including chief of staff, leading the agency’s strategic initiatives; regional director, supervising adult correctional facilities; and warden at several adult facilities. As a consultant and trainer for the U.S. Department of Justice, the Crime and Justice Institute, and The Moss Group, Jeffreys has provided policy and program development and specialized training to aid agencies in meeting their targeted goals and advancing their mission. He received the William H. Hastie Award in criminal justice. Jeffreys holds a BS in criminal justice and an MCJ, with a concentration in correctional administration, from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.

THOMAS JOINER (he/him/his) is Robert O. Lawton distinguished professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University. He works on the psychology, neurobiology, and treatment of suicidal behavior and related conditions. Joiner is editor-in-chief of the journal Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for work

on suicidal behavior, and has received the Dublin Award from the American Association of Suicidology for career achievement in suicide research. He was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was given the James McKeen Cattell Award for lifetime contributions to the area of applied psychological research by the Association for Psychological Science. Joiner has authored or edited hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and many books, including the books Why People Die by Suicide (2005) and Myths About Suicide (2010). His newest book, The Varieties of Suicidal Experience, will appear in 2023. Joiner’s roles have included consultant to the Human Research Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and director of the Department of Defense–funded Military Suicide Research Consortium (a $70 million, 13-year project). He earned an AB from Princeton University and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

CHRISTOPHER M. JONES (he/him/his) serves as director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this role, he provides scientific leadership and overall management of NCIPC and drives its scientific and strategic priorities, including overdose, suicide, and adverse childhood experiences prevention. Jones has also served in leadership roles at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He maintains an active research portfolio and has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on substance use and overdose, mental health, adverse childhood experiences, and suicide, among other injury and violence topics. He received a BS in biology from Reinhardt College, his PharmD from Mercer University, his MPH from New York Medical College, and his DrPH in health policy from The George Washington University.

KELLY KEYES (she/her/hers) is a research forensic scientist at RTI International in the Center for Forensic Science Advancement and Application, following a career as a medicolegal death investigator at the Orange County (California) Sheriff-Coroner’s Office. She has investigated and certified thousands of cases and retired as a supervising investigator. Keyes is president-elect of the International Association of Coroners & Medical Examiners, a member of the board of directors for the National Association of Medical Examiners, and chair of the medicolegal investigation subcommittee at the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science. She has served as a subject matter expert on numerous panels and projects for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute of Justice, related to topics such as investigating and certifying disaster-related deaths, opioid death investigation, and needs assessments

for the medicolegal death investigation (MDI) community. Keyes’s current research revolves around various aspects of MDI and coroner and medical examiner systems in the United States, including improving accuracy and thoroughness of data produced by these populations. She has a BS in biology from the University of California, San Diego, is a California Peace Officer Standards and Training Certified death investigator, and is board certified as a registrant with the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigation.

LORA L. KLINGENSMITH (she/her/hers) serves as project lead for the development and implementation of the Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). She began her career as a management and program analyst in the Criminal Justice Information Service Division Audit Unit where she focused on the quality assurance review of the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. During her career, Klingensmith has had the privilege of working in several sections, units, and divisions, including the FBI’s Legal Attaché Program in Lagos, Nigeria, and Mexico City, Mexico.

FRAUKE KREUTER (she/her/hers) is codirector of the Social Data Science Center and faculty member in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland (USA) and professor of statistics and data science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (Germany). In addition to her academic work, Kreuter is founder of the International Program for Survey and Data Science, developed in response to the increasing demand from researchers and practitioners for the appropriate methods and tools for facing a changing data environment. She is also cofounder of the Coleridge Initiative, whose goal is to accelerate data-driven research and policy around human beings and their interactions for program management, policy development, and scholarly purposes by enabling efficient, effective, and secure access to sensitive data about society and the economy. Additionally, Kreuter is cofounder of the German-language podcast Dig Deep. She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the recipient of the Warren Mitofsky Innovators Award of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

BRIDGET LYONS (she/her/hers) serves as epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. She is an accomplished epidemiologist at the CDC working in surveillance, research, and program evaluation. Lyons serves as scientific lead for the Public Safety Officer Suicide module, a component of the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). The module is being used by NVDRS to collect more detailed information regarding

suicide among the public safety officer population, which can help develop and inform prevention programs. Her other work on NVDRS includes serving as a subject matter expert on violence death surveillance among LGBTQ+ populations with a special focus on health equity. Lyons received her MPH from Emory University and is currently working on her doctorate in public health at Georgia State University.

VICKIE M. MAYS (planning committee co-chair, she/her/hers) is a distinguished professor in the departments of Psychology and Health Policy and Management, as well as director of the BRITE Center for Science, Research and Policy all at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In her current work funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, she examines patterns of risk to characterize proximal factors associated with violent death due to suicide and homicide. For this purpose, Mays is developing natural language processing models for examining large data. She has examined mortality outcomes in violent deaths of police shootings, LGBTQ+ populations, and mental health outcomes associated with incarceration of the Black population. Mays is a congressional appointee to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and has received several lifetime awards. She has an MSPH in health policy and health services from UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Additionally, Mays’s postdoctoral training at the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan was focused on survey research and psychiatric epidemiology specific to mental health and physical health disparities in racial/ethnic and sexual minorities.

JACK McDEVITT (he/him/his) is professor of the practice emeritus in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. He is coauthor of three books: Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed, Hate Crimes Revisited: America’s War on Those Who Are Different (both with Jack Levin), and Victimology (with Judy Sgarzi). McDevitt has also coauthored dozens of publications and reports on hate crime, racial profiling, police misconduct, gun violence, and human trafficking. He has worked with hundreds of police departments on racial profiling and as part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative. Previously, McDevitt was founding director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. He was appointed by the speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to chair a Gun Violence Commission to make recommendations on ways to reduce gun violence in the Commonwealth. McDevitt has spoken on hate crime, racial profiling, human trafficking, and security both nationally and internationally, and has

testified as an expert witness before the judiciary committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and as an invited expert at the White House. He has a PhD in law policy and society from Northeastern University.

CAROL MICI (she/her/hers) is appointed as acting commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. She is a professional member of the American Correctional Association and International Corrections and Prisons Association; she serves as Northeast regional chair of the Correctional Leaders Association. Additionally, Mici is a graduate of the Executive Excellence Program with the National Institute of Corrections and a member of several local and national committees and commissions. She works with several agencies and sheriff’s departments across the commonwealth to promote the vision and mission of the Department of Corrections. Mici holds a BA from Westfield State University with a major in psychology and a minor in criminal justice, as well as an MPA from Suffolk University.

LISA MIREL (she/her/hers) is statistical advisor in the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) at the National Science Foundation, where she takes a leading role in the formulation, implementation, and oversight of NCSES’s statistical, survey methodological, data-quality, and data-protection goals, objectives, and priorities. Prior to NCSES, Mirel served as chief of the Data Linkage Methodology and Analysis Branch at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In that role, she directed the NCHS Data Linkage program, leading agency efforts to integrate NCHS data collection systems with external sources of health-related administrative data. Mirel oversaw the development and implementation of state-of-the-art data linkage methodologies and data-quality assessment tools. She also led the program in exploring the creation of synthetic linked data and assessing privacy-preserving record-linkage tools. Mirel received the American Statistical Association’s Links Lecture Award, and she currently serves as a member on the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology. She received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri) and an MS in biostatistics from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

OJMARRH MITCHELL (he/him/his) is associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. In the fall of 2023, he will join the University of California, Irvine, as professor in criminology, law, and society. Mitchell is also incoming editor-in-chief for Criminology & Public Policy. His research interests center on criminal justice policy, particularly in the areas of drug control, sentencing and corrections, and racial/ethnic fairness in the criminal justice system. Most recently, Mitchell has been investigating prosecutorial discretion and

its influence on case processing, case outcomes, and racial disparities in Florida’s courts. For his research on racial and ethnic issues in the criminal justice system, he received the Western Society of Criminology’s W.E.B. DuBois Award. Mitchell has served in numerous advisory roles, including the U.S. Department of Justice’s Science Advisory Board, New York City’s Pretrial Research Advisory Council, Philadelphia’s Pretrial Reform Advisory Council, and the American Society of Criminology’s Executive Board. He earned his PhD in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland with a doctoral minor in measurement, statistics, and evaluation.

MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY (she/her/hers) is associate professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. She conducts qualitative comparative research on violence and violent death, specifically about issues surrounding measurement and data collection processes as they pertain to medicolegal practices of classifying deaths as homicides, suicides, accidents, or natural. Neuilly’s research has so far compared medicolegal practices in France and the United States at various sites and times in history. She is now in the process of establishing the ways in which heuristics biases affect medicolegal experts in their death classification decision-making processes. Neuilly has a BA in psychology from the Université Catholique de l’Ouest in Angers (France), an MA and PhD in criminal justice and criminology from Rutgers University (USA), and both an MA in psychology and a PsyD from the Université de Rennes 2 (France).

BOBBI JO O’NEAL is a registered nurse and board-certified medicolegal death investigator with the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators and elected coroner for the Charleston (South Carolina) County Coroner’s Office. An experienced emergency room nurse, she became actively involved in the specialty of forensic nursing first in the area of sexual assault and then as a death investigator. O’Neal is currently president of the International Association of Coroners & Medical Examiners, president of the South Carolina Coroners Association, a member of the National Association of Medical Examiners, a fellow with the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and former director-at-large for the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She serves on the executive committee of the Lowcountry Healthcare Coalition and is an active member of the South Carolina Association of Counties. O’Neal is author of the book Investigating Infant Deaths. She has worked two mass fatalities in the Charleston area, including the massacre at the Mother Emanuel Church, during which wellness and mental health concerns for medicolegal death investigations impacted her office and set her on a path to improve services

in her community. O’Neal received her BS in nursing from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

BERNICE A. PESCOSOLIDO (she/her/hers) is distinguished professor of sociology at Indiana University Bloomington and founding director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research and the new Irsay Institute, which targets sociomedical sciences research. Her research focuses broadly on how social and cultural factors influence health and disease onset, and the individual, community, and medical response to both. Pescosolido’s major approach looks to human ties or social connectedness in three basic areas: the social determinants of and response to stigma, pathways to mental health care, and the social epidemiology of suicide. Using a big data solution, she is currently working on harmonizing novel data to move past data barriers on completed suicide in the United States, to allow a more direct understanding of the role of and potential to leverage social connectedness to reduce the personal, family, and community tragedy and societal loss that is suicide. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine and was named Cozzarelli Prize Finalist in Social Science by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for her paper on breaking through data and theory stalemates in suicide research. Pescosolido holds a PhD, MPhil, and MA, all in sociology from Yale University

ALEXIS R. PIQUERO (he/him/his) serves as head of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), appointed by President Biden, leading the agency’s efforts to collect, publish, and disseminate information on crime, victims of crime, people who commit criminal acts, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Piquero’s expertise ranges from criminal careers, to criminal justice policy and crime prevention, to the intersection of race and crime, with a focus on quantitative methodology. Prior to joining BJS, Piquero served as professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology Sciences, Arts and Sciences distinguished professor at the University of Miami, and professor of criminology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He has held academic appointments at the University of Texas at Dallas, University of Maryland College Park, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Piquero holds a BS, MS, and PhD in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland College Park.

RAJEEV RAMCHAND (he/him/his) is codirector of the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute and a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. He studies the prevalence, prevention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders in adolescents,

servicemembers and veterans, and minority populations. Ramchand has conducted research on suicide and suicide prevention, including environmental scans of suicide prevention programs, epidemiologic studies on risk factors for suicide, qualitative research with suicide-loss survivors, and evaluations of suicide prevention programs. He has also developed freely available tools to help organizations evaluate their own suicide prevention programs. Ramchand was recently appointed by the secretary of defense to serve as a member of the Department of Defense Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee. He has testified on suicide prevention before the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and California State Senate. Ramchand was a committee member for the 2022 National Academy of Sciences workshop Community Interventions to Prevent Veteran Suicide: The Role of Social Determinants; and he currently serves as member of the workshop Identifying and Managing Suicide Risk in Non-VA Healthcare Settings. He holds a BS in economics from the University of Chicago and a PhD in psychiatric epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

GREG RIDGEWAY (he/him/his) is professor and chair of criminology, professor of statistics and data science, and codirector of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. His research involves the development and application of statistical methodologies for answering questions about crime and the criminal justice system, including guns, drug policy, policing, and fairness in the justice system. Previously, Ridgeway was acting director of the National Institute of Justice, the U.S. Justice Department’s science agency. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, he directed RAND’s Safety and Justice Research Program and Center on Quality Policing, managing the RAND’s portfolio of work on policing, crime prevention, courts, corrections, and public and occupational safety. Ridgeway is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and has received the ASA Outstanding Statistical Application Award for his development of methods for assessing racial profiling. He is co–editor-in-chief of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Ridgeway received a PhD in statistics from the University of Washington in Seattle.

JENNIFER RINEER (planning committee member, she/her/hers) is program manager and research psychologist in RTI International’s Justice Practice Area. With a background in industrial/organizational psychology and occupational health psychology, Rineer has extensive research and applied experience advancing the health, well-being, and performance of employees and organizations. Her current work, including multiple studies funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, focuses on improving occupational health and organizational outcomes in criminal legal settings,

including policing, investigations, courts systems, and corrections. Rineer specializes in rigorous scientific research methods, including study design; intervention development, implementation, and evaluation; univariate and multivariate quantitative methods; survey development and validation; and qualitative research. She has been published in peer-reviewed outlets for psychology, criminology, management, and public health, and is versed in translating complex research findings into practical, relevant tools for clients and practitioners. Rineer has a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from Portland State University in Oregon.

KEVIN M. SCOTT (he/him/his) is principal deputy director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), where he oversees statistical collections. Previously, he served as deputy director of statistical operations at BJS, chief of the Law Enforcement Statistics Unit, and chief of the Judicial Statistics Unit. Additionally, Scott has served as analyst for the Congressional Research Service, analyst for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and director of the Policy Analysis Unit in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy. He earned his BA in political science at the University of Oklahoma and both his PhD and MA in political science at The Ohio State University.

JEFFREY SEDGWICK (he/him/his) is executive director of the Justice Research and Statistics Association. He previously served as director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics and assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs. Sedgwick is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught multiple courses, including policy analysis and evaluation and public policy. Sedgwick served with the National Academy of Sciences as chair and subsequently member of the Committee on National Statistics Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics and the Committee on Reducing Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System. He received both his MAPA and PhD in government and public affairs from the University of Virginia and his AB from Kenyon College in Ohio.

KAREN SOLOMON (she/her/hers) has volunteered as president and cofounder of Blue H.E.L.P. while maintaining a professional career as a full-time supply chain manager. Blue H.E.L.P. became the first group to collect law enforcement suicide data year over year and support families in the aftermath. Solomon’s primary focus has been on raising awareness about the occurrence and causes of law enforcement suicide while working with federal, state, and local departments and organizations in forming policies and drafting laws. She is the author of the books Hearts Beneath the Badge and The Price They Pay, as well as articles about law enforcement suicide and the affected families. Solomon is a member of

several professional leadership organizations, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Criminal Justice Information Services Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Task Force and the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s National Consortium on Preventing Law Enforcement Suicide. She has also participated in Officer Safety and Wellness Groups at the Department of Justice. Solomon has a BA in political science from Eckerd College in Florida.

HOPE M. TIESMAN (she/her/hers) is senior research epidemiologist in the Division of Safety Research at the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Her current research interests include suicide prevention in the workplace and the study of workplace psychosocial hazards. Her prior research involved the occupational safety and health of law enforcement officers and the surveillance of workplace violence outcomes and risk factors across various occupations and industries. Tiesman specializes in the evaluation of workplace occupational safety programs. She has published extensively in the field of occupational injuries and worked closely with various industries and occupations, including the U.S. military, health care workers, farmers, teachers, and police officers. Tiesman serves on several occupational safety and health scientific councils, injury research groups, and suicide prevention advisory boards. She received her PhD in injury epidemiology at the University of Iowa, where she was an occupational injury prevention fellow at the Heartland Center for Occupational Health & Safety; she also received an MSPH in epidemiology from the University of South Florida.

ROBERT J. URSANO (he/him/his) is professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, and founding director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. He completed 20 years of service in the U.S. Air Force medical corps and retired as colonel in 1991, going on to serve as the Department of Defense representative to the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health. Ursano is a past member of the Veterans Affairs Mental Health Study Section and the National Institute of Mental Health Rapid Trauma and Disaster Grant Review Section. He is a frequent advisor for the U.S. Department of Defense on issues surrounding psychological response to trauma. Ursano is principal investigator for the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS). STARRS has applied state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and predictive analytics to better understand and predict suicide and suicide-related behavior, the largest study ever conducted on military suicide. Ursano was educated at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and Yale University School of Medicine in Connecticut and did his psychiatric training at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in Texas and at Yale University.

JOHN M. VIOLANTI (committee planning member, he/him/his) is research professor at the University at Buffalo (New York) in the School of Public Health and Health Professions. He is a police veteran and an internationally recognized expert on law enforcement suicide and has written and edited 20 books and 150 peer-reviewed articles on police stress and trauma, concentrating on associations with law enforcement suicide. Violanti has presented nationally and internationally on law enforcement suicide to numerous police departments and organizations and continues to conduct several research projects on suicide. He has received nine research study awards from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and, recently, an award from the American College of Epidemiology for outstanding contributions to social epidemiology. Violanti has served with the National Academy of Sciences as a member of the planning committee for a workshop titled Strategies, Interventions and Policies for Health Promotion, High Risk Behavior Prevention and Increased Performance of the DHS Law Enforcement Workforce; he also served on the Committee on Department of Homeland Security Workforce Resilience. He has a PhD in sociology and psychology, as well as counseling and rehabilitation psychology degrees, from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

MARK WACHTER (he/him/his) is commanding officer of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) Health and Wellness Section, which offers physical fitness, nutrition, yoga instruction, and retirement planning in person and virtually. Wachter has overseen the implementation of a peer-support program and the installation of a new health and wellness application on department-issued smartphones. Recently, the section implemented a Critical Incident Stress Debriefing program to assist officers in processing traumatic events. He oversaw the creation of an online wellness training series to offer department members access to wellness resources and to reduce the stigma of seeking help. Watcher also oversaw the implementation of the department’s Therapy K9 Program within the NYPD Employee Assistance Unit. He has presented at the International Association of Chiefs of Police on various wellness practices in law enforcement and is a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Suicide Data Collection Task Force to study and identify patterns in law enforcement suicide. Wachter is certified by Georgetown University and NYPD as an instructor in active bystandership for law enforcement. He received a BS in criminal justice from John Jay College in New York and graduated from the Police Management Institute at Columbia University, also in New York.

CHUCK WEXLER (he/him/his) is executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), an organization that conducts research and is dedicated to improving the professionalism of policing. Wexler leads a staff

engaged in policing research, management studies, and consulting for police agencies; publication of books and reports on critical issues in policing; police executive education; and policy development. Under his leadership, PERF has studied a wide range of issues confronting the policing profession, including the prevention of police suicide. Recent reports include An Occupational Risk: What Every Police Agency Should Do to Prevent Suicide Among Its Officers and Promising Strategies for Strengthening Police Department Wellness Programs. Wexler has a BA from Boston University, an MS in criminology from Florida State University, and a PhD in urban studies and planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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