Institutional Review Board (IRB)
IRB Board Members
The IRB operates under two Boards, IRB X and IRB FC. The members of each Board are listed below.
IRB - X Members
| Name | Dept | Reviewer Expertise |
Laura Caulfield, PhD Chair, IRB-X | IH
| Maternal and child health, nutrition, and child health surveillance information systems
|
Stella O Babalola, PhD
| HBS | Strategic communication, gender issues, adolescent reproductive health, and qualitative audience studies |
| Precious T Davis, PhD | Unaffiliated | Community member |
| Stephan Ehrhardt, MD | EPI | Clinical trials, prevention and treatment of infectious disease |
| Nicholas Ialongo, PhD | MH | Child mental health, developmental psychopathology, violence prevention |
| Vanya Jones, PhD | HBS | Program evaluation; injury prevention; violence; health education; youth fighting; health behavior; urban youth; mentoring; parents; school health; older adults |
| Ann Skinner, MSW | HPM | Survey research methods, patient-reported outcomes, mental health services research, health services research, mentally ill, elderly |
IRB - FC Members
| Name | Dept | Reviewer Expertise |
Joanne Katz, SCD Chair, IRB-FC | IH | Epidemiology, ophthalmology, biostatistics, community trials, blindness, visual impairment, glaucoma, cataract, trachoma, refractive error, ocular trauma, micronutrients, reproductive health |
| Sherry Adeyemi | Unaffiliated | Community member |
| Joseph Ali, JD | IH | Bioethics, research ethics, digital health, capacity strengthening consent, health policy and systems research, disease surveillance |
| Michele Decker, SCD | PFRH | Social epidemiology, gender-based violence (e.g., sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sex trafficking), its prevention, and its implications for sexual and reproductive health (e.g., STI/HIV, unintended pregnancy), using qualitative and quantitative methods. |
| Anna Durbin, MD | IH | International health, clinical trials, vaccine trials, phase 1 and 2 trials, flaviviruses, malaria, infectious diseases |
| Joe Gallo, MD | MH | Mental Health, depression in older adults, medical comorbidity, mixed methods in health services research |
| Margaret Himelfarb, MPH | Unaffiliated | Community member |
| Jill Owczarzak, PhD | HBS | Qualitative research methods medical anthropologist with expertise in exploring the influence of cultural, social, and political forces on health disparities |
| Vivian Rexroad, Pharm D | IH | Drugs, herbal, biological, vitamins, medications |
| Tiffany Roundtree | Unaffiliated | Community member |