![Joanne Nicholson](images/nicholson-joanne-2020.jpg)
Joanne Nicholson, PhD
Professor of the Practice
Expertise: Parenting and mental illness, psychiatric rehabilitation; web-based interventions
![Shannon Hennig, MA](images/shannon-hennig-new.jpg)
Shannon Hennig, MA
Program Director, Maternal Mental Health Research Collaborative; Visiting Academic Scholar, Institute for Behavioral Health
Expertise: Maternal mental health, patient engagement, social media and mass communication, knowledge translation
![Yaara Zisman-Ilani](images/zisman-ilani-yaara-reduced.jpg)
Yaara Zisman-Ilani
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Public Health, Temple University
Expertise: Shared decision making, person-centered care, engagement methods
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Melissa Brown, PhD, MSW
Senior Research Associate
Expertise: Participant/consumer-directed Medicaid waiver programs, community-based evaluation, behavioral health issues for individuals with disabilities and LGBTQIA+ populations across the lifespan, anti-oppressive research and pedagogy
melissabrown@brandeis.edu
Heller-Brown 213
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Kristen Faughnan, MPA
Research Associate
Expertise: Health equity, delivery system transformation, community engagement, mixed-methods research and evaluation
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Victoria Lesser
Research Assistant, Candidate for B.A. in Biology and B.S. in Health: Science, Society and Policy
Expertise: Health education, health care delivery and policy, community engagement
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Allie Silverman, MPH, MSW
Ph.D. Candidate, Heller School
Expertise: Sexual health, substance use disorders, health care delivery and quality improvement.
![Melissa MacKay](../../images/melissa-mackay-vertical.jpg)
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Tim Corey
IIDDEAL-2 Collaborator
Expertise: Faciliation, Mediation, Illustration, Human Service Systems