PANTHER Engineering Project Manager and Associate Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, University of Wisconsin-Madison
I am the Project Manager for a large interdisciplinary DoD-funded TBI research program (PANTHER) and the Associate Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have been researching the physics-based causes of mild traumatic brain injury since 2016 with the goal of predicting and preventing injury.
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Research and Innovation Officer at the Wealth and Work Futures Lab, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel University
Alicia Atkinson is the Research and Innovation Officer at the Wealth and Work Futures Lab, based out of the Lindy Institute at Drexel University. As a researcher, advocate, somatic practitioner, and systems thinker, she focus on expanding economic and racial justice in the Philadelphia region and beyond. She brings a deep commitment to centering the community in decision-making to shift systems towards equity and justice.
In her prior leadership roles, she’s been responsible for research, policy development, and advocacy work centered on expanding financial security for low-income communities. Most recently, as the Managing Director of Financial Empowerment at United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ), where she was responsible for aligning strategic direction to community needs and opportunities, cultivating partnerships, and integrating philanthropic investment to support families, communities and financial security initiatives in the region.
Previously, she was the Managing Director at The Prosperity Agenda, where she led new strategic initiatives and managed place-based projects rooted in the wisdom, experience, and expertise of families enduring economic inequality. She led the research, design, and evaluation of innovations, such as Money Mindset Cards, which honor lived and living experience in financial conversations. Prior to that, she was a Policy Analyst with the Government Affairs team at Prosperity Now, where she promoted effective policies and programs to expand savings, credit building, financial coaching, and integrated service delivery.
Alicia holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Legal Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity, working exclusively on the Leveraging Mobility Project. She also co-authored the report “Employment Capital: How Work Builds and Protects Family Wealth and Security,” which highlights the importance of quality work-based policies for low- and moderate-income workers in preserving and growing assets overtime.
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Professor, GIBS, University of Pretoria
Prof Alicia Fourie is a full-time faculty member at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and lectures in macroeconomics and microeconomics. Prior to joining GIBS, she lectured at the North-West University for 10 years in economics and acted as subject convenor for introduction to micro-and macroeconomics for many years. Prof Fourie was also involved with the distance education programme UNIVPREP. During her time at the North-West University, she received numerous teaching awards from the university and Media24.
Prof Fourie has a PhD in economics education and has several peer-reviewed articles published in national and international journals relating to economics education, tourism economics and behavioural economics. Currently, she is focusing her research on behavioural economics and the informal labour market.
Prof Fourie was part of Green Bubbles (2015-2019), which was an EU-funded project dedicated to sustainable scuba diving. The Green Bubbles project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement. Furthermore, she was part of a project to use tourism as a tool for poverty reduction in Southern Africa (2018-2019). This project was funded by the British Academy through the Newton Mobility Grant Scheme.
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Research Projects Officer, CSIRO
I graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours from the University of Queensland (Qld, Australia) in 2011, and gained a doctorate from the Curtin University (WA, Australia) in 2017. I undertook a post-doctoral position at the Australian National University (ACT, Australia) in 2018-2019, and joined the National Research Collections Australia at CSIRO in 2020. My interests include using ancient and historical DNA to study evolution, and improving molecular methods to recover DNA from fossils and museum specimens.
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PhD Candidate, Communication, Simon Fraser University
I am a PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University in the School of Communication. I am also employed as the Coordinator of Campaign Research at SEIU Local 2.
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Master's Student in Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Alicia received her Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Environmental Science with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she is also completing her M.S. degree. Her Master’s research focuses on the racial-sexual geographies of incarceration in the United States. She also contributes to various research projects around cities, housing and technology using critical GIS methods.
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Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies , Cardiff University
I am a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in JOMEC. My research interests are in everyday life, second-hand economies, and material culture. More widely, I am interested in the cultural politics of migration, gender, race, and disability, and in visual, creative and participatory research methods.
I have been working to build a network of second-hand studies researchers and practitioners. You can find more about our projects and activities on the Secondhand Cultures blog, available here: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcultures/
I recently finished a three-year project, Charity shop country: conviviality and survival in austerity Britain, funded by the Leverhulme Trust early career fellowship, and exploring how charity shops matter as sites of everyday living together and getting by in an austerity economy. Here is a recent blog post about the research - Thrift labours - Charity shops in the austerity economy
My thesis in cultural studies, also at JOMEC, entitled Feeling Together: Emotion, heritage, conviviality and politics in a changing city, follows three intergenerational groups of women and girls as they took part in arts and heritage projects to explore overlooked local women’s history in Butetown through writing, film, photography, and fashion. The thesis is framed by a critical history of Cardiff, as well as a critical interrogation of whiteness in UK heritage industries and theoretical debates on the politics of emotion. I argue for these intergenerational heritage projects as emotional performances full of important lessons on how to cope with inherited injustice and how to live together with others in the present.
I have published on the cultural politics of translation in film, emotion in migrant protest media, and the history of refugees in Wales. As part of formative interdisciplinary collaborations as a research assistant, I have also published on narratives of poverty in the media in Wales and Black and minority ethnic women’s experiences of infertility, as well as drawing as a participatory research method. Before moving to the UK and undertaking her PhD in cultural studies, I worked in the nonprofit sector in the United States on housing and food justice issues. Her academic background is in literature and the arts.
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health, UCL
Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla is professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London. He is also a consultant infectious diseases at UCLH, honorary consultant at Royal Free Hospital, and holds a UK NIHR senior Investigator award. His London and overseas research activities span the interface between clinical investigation and biomedical science, with the long-term goals of understanding the pathogenesis of respiratory tract infections, and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases with epidemic potential, afflicting adults and children, and developing methods for rapid diagnosis, better treatment and control.
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Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Aston University
Dr Patelli holds a PhD in computer science awarded by Aston University in 2017, and one in systems engineering awarded by her Romanian alma mater in 2011. She specialises in evolutionary computation, a type of biologically-inspired Artificial Intelligence.
Her focus is on genetic programming with transfer learning and its applications in smart cities, specifically traffic modelling and prediction. Dr Patelli is also interested in autonomic, knowledge-based systems, and self-adaptation and self-organisation in computing.
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Director of the Business Advice Centre for Post Graduate Students at UEL, Ambassador of the Centre for Innovation, Management and Enterprise, University of East London
Dr Alina Maria Vaduva is a business lecturer, leader, SME innovation evaluator and entrepreneur. Dr Vaduva is passionate about strategy, management, leadership, and the application of technology in education and human resource management. Dr Vaduva is an SME innovation expert evaluator for the European Commission and has assessed more than 150 technology related proposals. Her recent research includes the use of gamification in student induction.
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Associate Professor of Marketing, EM Lyon Business School
In my research I adopt the sociocultural perspective as a framework for understanding consumption experiences, with the particular focus on globalization, consumer mobility, acculturation and consumption in digital service settings. I seek to go beyond consumer subjectivity in investigating the broader market and sociocultural dynamics that intertwine with consumer experiences, using in-depth interviews, ethnographic methods, discourse analysis and digital research in order to uncover how lived experiences of consumers are being shaped by broader macroenvironmental forces, and how consumer lifestyles emerge as a response to the challenges of their daily lives.
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Associate Professor of English, Florida State University
Alisha Gaines is the Timothy Gannon Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty of African American Studies at Florida State University. She holds a 2009 PhD in English and a certificate in African and African American Studies from Duke University. From 2009-2011 she held a Carter G. Woodson postdoctoral fellowship in African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. As a Co-Founder and Co-Humanities Director of the Evergreen Plantation Archaeological Field School, in 2024, Alisha won a Community Engaged Research Partnership Grant for her work on plantation tourism in Louisiana's River Parishes.
Alisha's first manuscript, "Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy," was published with UNC Press (Spring 2017). The project rethinks the political consequences of empathy by examining mid-to-late twentieth and twenty-first century narratives of racial impersonation enabled by the spurious alibi of racial reconciliation. "Black for a Day" constructs a genealogy of mostly White liberals who temporarily "become" Black under the alibi of racial empathy.
An award-winning educator, her interdisciplinary teaching interests include African American literature, Black Study, narratives of passing, Black Southern Studies, media and performance studies, and Black queer theory.
A student of Black Souths, Alisha is currently writing her second manuscript, "Children of the Plantationocene," on Black American origin stories, what we collectively inherit from the plantation, and slavery reenactments.
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PhD Candidate in English Literature, The University of Edinburgh
I am a PhD candidate conducting research at the intersections of English literature, the history of sexuality, and the medical humanities. I am a member of the Culture and the Reproductive Body research network. From the aesthetics of abortion in early twentieth-century women's literature to sadomasochism and plant subjectivity in contemporary fiction, my research interests span literary and theoretical engagements with the body, nature, and sexuality. My current research is focussed on the representation of abortion in British women's literature from 1900-1940. In the past, I have written about abortion in America in the early twentieth century, in post-colonial literature, in politics, and in queer theory. I have also written about ecocriticism, feminist theory, queer theory, and posthumanism.
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Program Lead, Business, Economy and Governance at the Institute for Sustainable Futures., University of Technology Sydney
Alison Atherton is Program Lead of the Business, Economy and Governance Program at the Institute for Sustainable Futures. She has a background in social sciences, chartered accountancy audit and advisory, and over a decade of experience in sustainability research and consultancy. The consistent theme underpinning Alison's research is organisational and societal change for sustainability. Her research focuses on sustainable finance and corporate sustainability. Within these themes, evaluation, assessment, performance indicators and frameworks have been core elements of her work. Alison is particularly interested in understanding how businesses and the finance sector can support achievement of the Paris Climate Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals through responsible investment and corporate sustainability.
Prior to joining ISF, Alison worked for KPMG on corporate sustainability and prior to that, she worked for the UK's leading sustainable development organisation Forum for the Future, developing tools for monetising organisations environmental and social impacts. Alison is a member of ASFI's Capability Reference Group and previously a member of the Taxonomy Advisory Group. She is Chair of Coast 4C, a social enterprise, a supplier of sustainable seaweed.
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Lecturer in Positive Psychology Coaching, University of East London
Dr Alison Bishop is a lecturer in Positive Psychology Coaching at the University of East London. She completed her PhD in psychology, studying resilience in the mothers of children with autism, which resulted in the creation of a kinder model of resilience. Alison previously worked at the University of Suffolk in the childhood studies department lecturing on the health and wellbeing of children. Alison is also a positive psychology coach specialising in coaching people with wellbeing goals.
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Teaching Fellow in Music, University of Otago
Alison Blair is a Teaching Fellow in Music at the University of Otago. She recently submitted her doctoral thesis on 1970s British glam rock.
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Docteure en psychologie du développement et de l'éducation, Université de Lorraine
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Assistant Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
Alison Gerlach is an Assistant Professor who joined the School of Child & Youth Care at the University of Victoria in British Columbia in August 2018. Alison’s research and scholarship focuses on informing systems change for equity-oriented child- and family-centred care in diverse early years and healthcare contexts with Indigenous and non-Indigenous families and children who experience structural forms of marginalization and a greater risk of health inequities.
Alison’s work draws on 25 years of providing occupational therapy with dis/abled children in diverse community and family contexts, and in partnership with Indigenous organizations and First Nations in British Columbia. Alison is particularly interested in the continuities between children’s early experiences of adversity, dis/ability, and health inequities and the development of inclusive, responsive, and equity-oriented structural, organizational, and practice level approaches. She is committed to community-based participatory research that engages with communities, organizations, families, and children as research partners.
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, La Trobe University
Alison Pennington is an economist and writer. She is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at La Trobe University, and the author of Gen F'd: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures (Crikey Reads/Hardie Grant).
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Senior lecturer, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong
Dr Alison Tomlin is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Skills at the University of Wollongong, and a member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Her areas of interest include medical education with a focus on communication skills, professionalism and reflective practice.
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Senior Lecturer in Landscape Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
I mostly teach landscape ecology and field botany for undergraduate students. At the post-graduate level, I develop and lead courses in using the R environment to handle data and perform GIS analyses.
I'm interested in the role of humans in determining changes in biodiversity and distributions over time. In particular, I want to know changes in landscape and climate during the past century have shaped patterns of biodiversity today. Using historical and present-day maps and species inventories, I look at the changes in biodiversity that have already happened in response to environmental change, with the hope that that knowledge can be used to conserve biodiversity now and in the future.
I am also very interested in the dispersal of plant species in time and space, and how this is driven directly and indirectly by humans through management and landscape structure. Seeds can move in any number of ways related to human activity, while dormancy in the seed bank can act to buffer biodiversity during times of unsuitable conditions. I think that understanding how species move in time and space will help us to understand their responses to environmental pressures and conservation actions.
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Professor of Criminology, University of Glasgow
Alistair Fraser is Professor of Criminology at the University of Glasgow, and formerly Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.
He teaches and researches issues of youth violence, street culture, and urban crime, with a particular interest in the global gang phenomenon. His work seeks to make theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded, policy relevant contributions to academic and public debate. He recently completed a major new study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), investigating the meaning and utility of 'public health' approaches to violence reduction in Scotland and England (https://changingviolence.org).
Alistair is the author of two books: Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City (OUP, 2015) and Gangs and Crime: Critical Alternatives (Sage, 2017) and is authored or co-author of more than thirty other publications in journals or edited collections, in outlets including the British Journal of Criminology, British Journal of Sociology, Theoretical Criminology and The Oxford Handbook of Criminology.
Alistair is a regular contributor to public debate on issues of crime and justice and has written for the Wall Street Journal, Herald, Scotsman and Conversation as well as making contributions to BBC Scotland, BBC’s ‘Timeline’, STV's 'Scotland Tonight', and BBC Radio Four's 'Thinking Allowed.' In 2017-18, Alistair was selected as a BBC/AHRC ‘New Generation Thinker’ and collaborated with BBC Radio 3 on a series of broadcasts on themes of gangs, street culture, gentrification, and boredom.
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Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Alistair is a mycologist and fungal geneticist. He studies magic mushrooms and how their genetic diversity can be manipulated to benefit humans. He has research experience in Australia, Europe, South Africa, and the United States.
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Professor of Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Professor Rieu-Clarke's research interests lie in the interface between international law, sustainable development and transboundary waters. Alistair’s research has taken him to many of the major transboundary river basins in the world, and he has conducted several major multi-disciplinary research projects in Europe, Southern and Eastern Africa, Central America and South-East Asia. Since September 2017, Alistair has been working as a legal advisor to one of the UN agencies responsible for the implementation of the SDGs, namely the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). As well as working for UNECE on SDG6.5.2 (transboundary water cooperation), Alistair has assisted in the implementation of the pilot reporting mechanism under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.
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Chair of Academic Clinical Orthopaedics, UCL
Professor Alister Hart is the UCL chair of orthopaedics and a consultant orthopaedic hip surgeon Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust and Cleveland Clinic London.
He trained at Caius College, Cambridge University, and then Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH, Stanmore, London). He has had 2 research impact case studies for the 2014 REF, “Hip replacements: Changes to health policy and regulation”, and the 2021 REF, “Making joint implants safer by identifying causes of previous failures”.
He leads a research team of clinical orthopaedic engineers, based at the UCL Stanmore Campus & RNOH NHS Trust, focussed on implant science (includes the London Implant Retrieval Centre (LIRC)), surgical imaging technology and exercise science. His research has featured in the media:
The BBC nicknamed him the “Hospital Hip Detective” and BBC Radio 4 interviewed him for his work on implant science.
His exercise science work has featured in:
The Guardian 2024
Runner’s World, Jan 2024
The Times 2023
The Washington Post 2022
The Times 2020
The New York Times 2019
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Lecturer and Researcher in Law, Criminology and Indigenous Studies, Victoria University, Victoria University
Alister McKeich (Ali MC) holds a Master in Human Rights Law and teaches into Indigenous Studies, Law and Criminology. He is also a photojournalist, working for Al Jazeera and the Indigenous-owned Koori Mail (among other publications and exhibitions), and has lived and worked across many First Nations' communities in law, story-telling and music. As a non-Indigenous ally, Ali is privileged to work in these spaces locally as well as with diverse communities abroad.
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Dr Alix Woolard has a Ph.D. in Psychology and researches ways to better understand and treat childhood trauma. Dr Woolard is a senior researcher at Embrace at Telethon Kids.
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher, University of Hertfordshire
I am a multidisciplinary researcher interested in contemporary leisure experiences and wellbeing. This includes research in gerontology, tourism, festivals and events, family sociology, family management, marginalisation, mental health and wellbeing, neurodiversity, equity of experiences and human rights.
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Law Teacher, University of Sydney
Allan McCay is an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics, at Macquarie University and teaches at the University of Sydney Foundation Program.
He has taught at the law schools of the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, and the Business School at the University of Sydney. Allan trained as a solicitor in Scotland and has also practiced in Hong Kong
He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2013 and his thesis considered the ethical and legal merits of behavioural genetics based pleas in mitigation in sentencing. He is interested in free will, philosophy of punishment and the criminal law’s response to neuroscience.
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Deputy Superintendent, Texas A&M Maritime Academy, Texas A&M University
Since 2009, Captain Allan F. Post has served the Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) as its Executive Director of Marine Education Support and Safety Operations. In 2019, he assumed additional responsibilities as the Deputy Superintendent of the Texas A&M Maritime Academy, reporting directly to the TAMUG Chief Operations Officer and Academy Superintendent.
As a member of the University and Academy leadership team, Captain Post directs a diverse team of professionals dedicated to maritime operations, overseeing the federal training ship, research and academic vessels, and the USCG-approved cadet licensing program. While at Texas A&M, he has guided several large construction projects, including shoreline stabilization following Hurricane Ike, the Clipper Pier service life extension, and marina construction.
He currently serves as the owner's representative supporting the construction of the forthcoming Lone Star State pier and shoreside infrastructure project on campus. Throughout his maritime education and operations career, Captain Post steered the team for four newbuild vessels, including large and small passenger vessels, and has overseen the refit of several others.
Starting with his appointment in 2019, Captain Post has been closely involved with the State Maritime Consortium, TAMU government relations, and the Texas Congressional delegation in their successful efforts to lobby for federal funding to construct a fleet of training ships and the related shoreside infrastructure needs.
In addition to his maritime responsibilities, Captain Post also leads the Galveston Campus' emergency operations, serving as its emergency management coordinator. He successfully led the response efforts for the evacuation and reconstitution of Hurricanes Harvey and Laura and the historic 2021 ice storm.
Captain Post is an alumnus of the State University of New York Maritime College with Bachelor of Science degrees in Meteorology and Oceanography (1997). He holds numerous maritime licenses, including a Master 1600 ton inland and Great Lakes motor or steam vessels license, a Master (Non-Navigating) Passenger Carrying Barges license, and a Third Mate unlimited tonnage upon oceans. He graduated from the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Governor's Executive Development Program (2013) and the Texas A&M University Master of Maritime Business Administration program (2016).
In 2017, TAMUG bestowed Captain Post with the exclusive William Paul Ricker Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement of a Staff Member in honor of his extraordinary leadership at the Galveston Campus.
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Florida
Dr. Allan Steigleman spent more than 25 years in the U.S. Navy as an ophthalmologist, where he developed a keen interest in a variety of eye-related topics.
Since joining the University of Florida, he has expanded his academic pursuits in ophthalmic conditions. His areas of interest include LASIK eye surgery, ocular trauma, refractive surgery, cataract surgery and more.
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Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University
Allen Cheng is a specialist in infectious diseases and an epidemiologist. He is Professor/Director of Infectious Diseases at Monash Health and the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, and is involved in the treatment of patients with infectious diseases, and providing advice to governments on communicable diseases control. He is also involved in in surveillance for influenza-related hospital admissions through the FluCAN system, based at 21 hospitals nationally. He was previously Deputy Victorian Chief Health Officer, and a past Co-Chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation and the Advisory Committee for Vaccines.
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Clinical Assistant Professor, Marriage & Family Therapy Program, Northwestern University
Allen K. Sabey, Ph.D., LMFT, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and a core faculty member in the Master of Science in Marriage & Family Therapy program. He completed his M.S. degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and his Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies at Auburn University. He also completed a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.
Dr. Sabey maintains an active empirical research lab (Emotional Availability & Responsiveness LabExternal link:open_in_new) aimed at understanding how and why family members provide care and support for one another, especially in times of distress. The goal of his research project is to increase emotional availability and responsiveness within families. He utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and draws from attachment theory and emotion processing principles as his theoretical foundations. He has presented at national and international conferences and has published on the nature of family relationships in numerous academic journals, including Family Process and Journal of Family Psychology.
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