Tim Bruckner is a population health scholar with training in epidemiology, demography, and health services who seeks to understand social, economic, and policy causes of health inequity. The health conditions Professor Bruckner examines—perinatal health and (separately) mental and behavioral health—often show strong disparities along racial/ethnic and socioeconomic lines. Much of his work attempts to isolate exposures, or antecedents, of health that approximate a natural experiment. His research informs not only the basic understanding of human biology and behavior but also public health practice and health policy. His current policy-related projects receive funding support from the National Institutes of Health.

Candice Odgers is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Psychological Science at the University of California Irvine. Her team has been capturing the daily lives and health of adolescents using mobile phones and sensors over the past decade. More recently, she has been working to leverage digital technologies to better support the needs of children and adolescents as they come of age in an increasingly unequal and digital world. Her team focuses on mapping trajectories of children and adolescents’ development in daily life and across the lifecourse using methods ranging from deploying wearable sensors to merging large-scale administrative records. She designs and conducts rigorous research to advance the science of child and adolescent health and to openly sharing our research protocols, data, and findings. She is the author of over 100 scientific publications and her research has been disseminated widely via outlets such as the Economist, New York Times, Scientific American, and the Washington Post.

Jun Wu, Professor of Public Health, focuses on population-based research of environmental exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology, and environmental health disparity. She has extensive experience and knowledge in examining the influences of various environmental exposures (e.g. air pollution, climate, and built environment such as green space, neighborhood resources, walkability) on reproductive outcomes (e.g. maternal and fetal health), children’s health, and other health endpoints. She also has strong interest in research on environmental justice and environmental health disparity, particularly working in partner with communities.