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D. Alex Quistberg

D. Alex Quistberg

Associate Research Professor, Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University

Associate Research Professor, Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University Alex Quistberg is Associate Research Professor in the Urban Health Collaborative and the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health. He also has a courtesy appointment as Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine in Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. His current research focuses on the epidemiology of road traffic safety, the built environment, and global and urban health. His work implements methods to measure the built environment objectively, including from geographic information systems (GIS), virtual audits, and artificial intelligence via computer vision and deep learning. He currently leads the Built Environment, Pedestrian Injury, and Deep Learning (BEPIDL) study funded by the Fogarty International Center at NIH and the Urban Health and Climate Change in Informal Settlements in Latin America Study (ESCALA) study funded by the Lacuna Fund. Both these grant are in partnership with the Universidad de los Andes, and the latter also with Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. He is also a co-investigator of the SALURBAL project, funded by Wellcome Trust. His work has primarily focused on improving safety for walking and biking, including the evaluation of policies on road safety outcomes. He is affiliated with The Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER).

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Dean Picone

Dean Picone

Senior Research Fellow, Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney

Senior Research Fellow, Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney Dr Dean Picone is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Dean holds a NHMRC Emerging Leader Level 1 Fellowship (2023-7) and previously held a National Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021-2). Dean is also an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania, and Chair of the New Investigator Committee of the International Society of Hypertension. Dean's research visionis to improve cardiovascular health by improving awareness, detection and management of high blood pressure using innovative, accurate and consumer accepted measurement methods.

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David Wilders

David Wilders

PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University

PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University David Wilders is a PhD candidate, supported by a School of English Research Scholarship, at Dublin City University. His research is focused on representations of disability within Irish literature and primarily in life writing. He is also interested in how disability is portrayed in theatre - musical theatre especially. His work has previously been published on the RTE Brainstorm website.

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Danielle Einstein

Danielle Einstein

Adjunct Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University

Adjunct Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University B Sc (Psychology) (Hons), 1994 M Psychol (Clinical), 1996 Phd 2005 Over the past 28 years, Dr Danielle Einstein has supervised, taught and investigated the optimal delivery of cognitive behaviour treatment in university, hospital and private settings, including running treatment trials at Westmead Hospital. She has worked with adolescents, developing an internet program for adolescents suffering with comorbid anxiety and depression together with Dr Carolyn Schniering and Professor Ron Rapee (funded by Australian Rotary Health) and writing three face to face programs for use in secondary schools. These form part of large research trials run at Macquarie University. Danielle's interest in the effects of uncertainty commenced with her work into treatment of magical and superstitious thinking associated with OCD. Danielle's latest published research articles explain the connection between social media use and anxiety. Her interest lies in developing treatments to alter fear of uncertainty based on ACT and CBT.

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