Appendix B

Committee and Staff Biographies

KASISOMAYAJULA “VISH” VISWANATH (Chair) is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He is also the faculty director of the Health Communication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Other additional administrative and scientific leadership positions held by Viswanath include director of the Center for Translational Communication Science, DFCI; director, Harvard Chan India Research Center; and Director, Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, Harvard Chan. The central goal of the program of research in his lab is to influence public health policy and practice through knowledge translation and communication. His work draws from literatures in communication science, social epidemiology, dissemination and implementation, and social and health behavior sciences. Viswanath’s work is driven by two fundamental concerns: (a) how to center equity in drawing on translational communication science to promote health and well-being for ALL population groups and (b) to involve community-based organizations and all stakeholders through participatory research in promoting social change. His work so far has documented the relationship between communication inequalities, poverty and health disparities, and knowledge translation to address health disparities. He has written more than 325 journal articles and book chapters and is a co-editor or co-author of five books. He has served and continues to serve on several national committees including for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

NICK ALLUM is professor of research methodology at the University of Essex. His research encompasses survey methodology, research integrity, public understanding of science, and social and political trust. Allum teaches statistical methods and research methodology at Essex. He served as general secretary of the European Survey Research Association from 2012 to 2016. Allum served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science Literacy and Public Perception of Science in 2016. Previously he was also a member of the National Science Foundation’s expert panel on Science Literacy Indicators, which contributed to the National Science Board chapters on public attitudes and knowledge about science and technology. Allum received his B.A. in political economy from the University of East London, his M.Sc. in social research methods from the London School of Economics, and his Ph.D. in social psychology at the London School of Economics.

NADINE J. BARRETT is the senior associate dean of equity in research and community engagement at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. She previously served as an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University, and as co-director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), inaugural and founding director of the Duke CTSI Center for Equity in Research, and associate director of Equity and Stakeholder Strategy for the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI). Barrett is a health disparities researcher, expert equity strategist, and a nationally-recognized leader in facilitating community and academic partnerships to advance health equity. She develops multi-level interventions to address structural and systemic racism and implicit biases that limit access to quality health information, health care, and research among historically marginalized populations. Barrett created Just ASK, a national program designed to enhance diverse participation and representation in clinical research and trials. She successfully develops and implements community-based interventions to increase research participation of underrepresented race and ethnic groups in biomedical, clinical, and translational research. Barrett contributes to national guidelines and reports including the 2022 ASCO and ACCC joint guidelines and recommendations to increase diverse representation in clinical trials, and the 2020 AACR Health Disparities Report. She is the 2017 recipient of the ACCC National Innovator Award as the inaugural director of the DCI’s Office of Health Equity. Barrett completed a master’s of arts in sociology and social inequities at the University of Central Florida, a joint master of science in community health sciences, a Ph.D. in medical sociology and race and ethnic relations from Texas Woman’s University, and a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

DAVID A. BRONIATOWSKI is professor of engineering management and systems engineering in the George Washington (GW) University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he directs the Decision-Making and Systems Architecture Laboratory. He conducts research in decision making under risk, the design and analysis of complex systems, and the relationships between online and offline behavior. This research program draws upon a wide range of techniques including formal mathematical modeling, experimental design, automated text analysis and natural language processing, social and technical network analysis, and big data. He also served as associate director of the GW Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics. His work on systematic distortions of public opinion about vaccines by state-sponsored social media users has been widely reported in the academic and popular press. Prior to joining GW, Broniatowski completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine’s Center for Advanced Modeling in the Behavioral and Health Sciences. He earned a Ph.D. in engineering systems, an S.M. in technology and policy, and an S.M. and S.B. in aerospace engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

AFUA A. N. BRUCE is a leading public interest technologist who has spent her career working at the intersection of technology, policy, and society. She has worked in and across the government, non-profit, private, and academic sectors as well as held senior science and technology positions at DataKind, New America, the White House, the FBI, and IBM. With Bruce’s background in software engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence, combined with experience developing and deploying technology in and with communities, she incorporates an equity-based framework into her engagements. Bruce is currently an adjunct professor of the Heinz College of Information Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, a Visiting Practitioner for Cornell Tech’s Public Interest Tech program, an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and an affiliate of The Tayarisha African Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance at the University of Witwatersrand-Johannesburg. Her newest book, The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Technologists, and Philanthropists Can Build an Equitable World, describes how technology can advance equity. Bruce has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Purdue University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan.

LISA K. FAZIO is associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on how children and adults learn true and false information from the world around them, and on how to correct errors in people’s knowledge. Her work spans multiple disciplines including cognitive,

developmental, educational, and social psychology and informs basic theories about psychological processes, while also having clear applications for practitioners, such as journalists and teachers. She received the Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and the Frank Research Prize in Public Interest Communications. Her research is currently supported by major grants from both the National Science Foundation and the Mercury Project. Fazio is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Psychonomic Society. She earned her doctorate from Duke University and graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis.

LAUREN FELDMAN is a professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. She was previously on the faculty at American University. Her current research emphasizes three intersecting areas of interest: climate change communication, partisan media and misinformation, and comedy and social change. Feldman’s research has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and she is co-author of the book, A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice (University of California Press, 2020). Her work has been recognized with various academic awards, including article of the year awards from Mass Communication & Society and from the political communication division of the International Communication Association. Feldman serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Communication, Communication Research, and Environmental Communication, and she is an affiliate of the Rutgers Climate Institute and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. Feldman earned a B.A. in English from Duke University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

DEEN FREELON is presidential professor, Annenberg School for Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His theoretical interests address how ordinary citizens use social media and other digital communication technologies for political purposes, paying particular attention to the diffusion and mitigation of misinformation and disinformation. Methodologically, he is interested in how computational research techniques can be used to answer some of the most fundamental questions of communication science. His scholarship has been financially supported by grantmakers including the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Spencer Foundation, the Knight Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation, and he has published in top-tier journals including Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Freelon earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2012 and formerly taught at American University in Washington, DC.

ASHELEY R. LANDRUM is an associate professor in the Walter Cronkite School for journalism and mass communication at Arizona State University. Prior to this, she served as an associate professor in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University, and was a Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science of Science Communication at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania and a life sciences fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Landrum’s research investigates how values and worldviews influence people’s selection and processing of science (mis)information. Her work on the Flat Earth YouTube phenomenon, specifically, won her Texas Tech’s Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Award and the Billy I. and Avis M. Ross Achievement Award. Landrum’s research (in collaboration with KQED Science) has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Templeton Religion Trust, and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in psychological sciences, an M.S. in cognitive science from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.

DAVID M. J. LAZER is university distinguished professor of political science and computer sciences, Northeastern University, and visiting fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He has published prominent work on misinformation, democratic deliberation, collective intelligence, computational social science, and algorithmic auditing, across a wide range of prominent journals. His research has received extensive coverage in the media, including The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS Evening News. He is a co-leader of the COVID States Project, one of the leading efforts to understand the social and political dimensions of the pandemic in the United States. He is a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration and is a member of the Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication Research and Practice for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in political science.

EZRA M. MARKOWITZ is professor of environmental decision-making in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts; he is also a fellow with the FrameWorks Institute. Formerly, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University and an Earth Institute postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. His research, teaching, and outreach focus on the intersection of decision making, persuasive communication, public engagement with science, and environmental sustainability. He is particularly interested in the practical application of behavioral science to improve individuals’ and communities’ environmental

decision making; he also has deep expertise in the field of climate change communication and public engagement. He is the author of over five dozen peer-reviewed research papers, book chapters, and reports, including the 2015 Connecting on Climate guide to climate change communication. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and an author on the 5th National Climate Assessment for the USGCRP; he was awarded the Early Career Achievement award by the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in environmental sciences, studies and policy and his M.S. in psychology from the University of Oregon; he completed his B.A. in psychology at Vassar College.

PAMELA C. RONALD is a distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California (UC), Davis. Her research focuses on the use of genetic techniques to understand the plant response to infection and tolerance to environmental stress. With her collaborators, she received the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Research Initiative Discovery Award and the Tech Award for the innovative use of technology to benefit humanity. The Scientific American named her one of the 100 most influential people in biotechnology. Ronald’s book, Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food was selected as one of a 25 most influential books with the power to inspire college readers to change the world. Her TED talk has been viewed by more than 2 million people and translated into 26 languages. She also received the American Society of Plant Biologists Leadership Award and an honorary doctorate from the Swedish Agricultural University. She was named a World Agricultural Prize Laureate by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences. In 2022 she was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture. Ronald is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, earned a B.S. from the Reed College, an M.S. from Stanford University, and an M.S. from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

DAVID SCALES is an internal medicine hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Chief Medical Officer at Critica, a non-governmental organization focused on building scientific literacy. His research focuses on medical communication in clinical and online settings, including understanding how structural factors affect our information environments to allow misinformation to propagate and misconceptions to persist. Scales’ work leverages qualitative and quantitative methods to address the problem of health-related misinformation, training “infodemiologists” to build COVID-19 vaccine confidence in online communities with community-oriented motivational interviewing. Scales

received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where his sociology dissertation examined how the World Health Organization seeks to control the spread of diseases across international borders. He completed a primary care internal medicine residency at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Scales holds a certificate of medical interpretation in Levantine Colloquial Arabic from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has worked with refugees in the United States and throughout the Levant.

BRIAN G. SOUTHWELL is lead scientist for public understanding of science at RTI International. He also is adjunct professor of internal medicine at Duke University and adjunct associate professor in health behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, Southwell hosts a public radio show called The Measure of Everyday Life. He co-founded the Duke Program on Medical Misinformation to improve patient-provider conversations; has published a relevant book, Misinformation and Mass Audiences; and has been featured in outlets such as JAMA. He has consulted with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Institutes of Health on misinformation mitigation and served on the Advisory Committee for the Council of Medical Specialty Societies-National Academy of Medicine-World Health Organization Collaboration on Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media. Southwell has organized summits on trust in science and misinformation with support from the Rita Allen Foundation and the Aspen Institute. He also has won awards for scholarship from the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association and teaching recognition at the University of Minnesota. Southwell holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.

JEVIN WEST is a professor in the Information School at the University of Washington (UW). He is the co-founder of the new Center for an Informed Public at UW aimed at resisting strategic misinformation, promoting an informed society and strengthening democratic discourse. He is also the co-founder of the DataLab at UW, a data science fellow at the eScience Institute, and affiliate faculty for the Center for Statistics & Social Sciences. His research and teaching focus on the impact of data and technology on science and society, with a focus on slowing the spread of misinformation. He is the co-author of the new book, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, which helps non-experts question numbers, data, and statistics without an advanced degree in data science. He earned his B.S. and M.S. at Utah State University, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington Department of Biology, and completed a postdoc in physics at Umea University in Sweden.

STAFF

TIFFANY E. TAYLOR (study director) is a senior program officer for the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is currently the study director for the consensus study on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science, and also provides leadership, management, and support for several ongoing projects including the Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication, the Expert Meeting Series to Support Effective Federal Health Communications, the Expert Meeting on Implications for Science Education of Increasing AI and Robotics Capabilities, and the Convocation on Informal Science and Engineering Education. She came to the National Academies as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow, where she also worked with the Board on Science Education. She holds a B.S. in biology from Howard University and a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of California, San Diego.

LETICIA GARCILAZO GREEN is an associate program officer for the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. As a member of the board staff, she has supported studies focusing on criminal justice, science education, science communication, and climate change. She has a B.S. in psychology and a B.A. in sociology with a concentration in criminology from Louisiana State University and an M.A. in forensic psychology from The George Washington University.

HOLLY G. RHODES is a senior program officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. She is study director of the Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication, study director for Effective Health Communication in the Current Information Environment and the Role of the Federal Government: A Workshop, and a co-lead of the Climate Communications Initiative. Rhodes directed the Roundtable on the Communication and Use of Social and Behavioral Sciences and contributed to Communicating Science Effectively: A Research Agenda. Previously, she was a deputy project director at RTI International. She holds master’s and doctorate degrees in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

LAUREN RYAN is a senior program assistant for the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In her work at the National Academies, she has supported projects related to K–12 science standards, data science education, undergraduate STEM

education, and science communication. Ryan received her B.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of Maine and is currently pursuing an M.S. in educational psychology from George Mason University.

HEIDI SCHWEINGRUBER is the director of the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She oversees a portfolio of work that includes K–12 science education, informal science education, and higher education. Schweingruber joined the staff of the board as a senior program officer. In this role, she directed or co-directed several projects including the study that resulted in the report A Framework for K-12 Science Education, the blueprint for the Next Generation Science Standards. Schweingruber is a nationally recognized leader in leveraging research findings to catalyze improvements in science and STEM education policy and practice. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology (developmental) and anthropology from the University of Michigan.

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE FELLOW

PAULE JOSEPH is Lasker Clinical Research Scholar Tenure Track Clinical Investigator and chief of the Section of Sensory Science and Metabolism in the Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism with a joint appointment at the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). She is the inaugural American Academy of Nursing fellow. Joseph leads a multidimensional translational research program combining research and clinical practice focused on chemosensation (taste and smell), obesity, and substance abuse. Joseph is a leader of national and global non-profit organizations dedicated to decreasing health disparities and increasing minority health promotion and access. When individuals reported taste and smell loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, Joseph and her team began investigating the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the chemical senses. Joseph received an associate degree in applied sciences in nursing at Hostos Community College, a B.S.N. from the College of New Rochelle, an M.B.A. from Quantic School of Business & Technology, and an M.S. with a specialty as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Pace University. She completed a Ph.D. in nursing with a focus in genomics at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted her Ph.D. work at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. She then completed a Clinical and Translational Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on genomics, nutrition, and gastrointestinal diseases at the NINR, which was supported by the Office of Workforce Diversity. Joseph is a certified nurse practitioner with clinical privileges at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and outside NIH.

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