Todd Combs
Todd Combs is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of the Brown School’s Center for Public Health Systems Science. He oversees the Center’s research portfolio and focuses on expanding scientific and methodological capacities through identifying research opportunities, mentoring staff, and collaborating with the leadership team. His research interests include health and social policy, dissemination and implementation science, and systems science. Much of his research focuses on policies that affect the built environment to promote behavioral change.
He is currently leading EHDI project and working on several other projects, including ASPiRE (Advancing Science & Practice in the Retail Environment), which uses agent-based modeling to test the potential impact of retail tobacco policies, and the evaluation of the Washington University Institute for Clinical & Translational Sciences, which focuses on the benefits of membership and collaboration in the large-scale research initiative. Todd also has years of graduate teaching experience in applied quantitative research methods for social science, social work, and public health.
Veronica Chaitan
Veronica is a Senior Data Analyst at the Center. She currently works on the ASPiRE Tobacco Town project, and evaluations of a local Tobacco 21 policy and a PreventEd-led implementation grant focused on addressing the opioid epidemic. Her responsibilities include data collection, management and analysis, and preparation of findings for dissemination products. Her interests include data visualization, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
Keshav Kumar
Keshav is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Public Health Systems Science. He is working on the Early Hearing Loss Detection and Intervention (EHDI) project. He is responsible for data exploration, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing CDC’s EHDI data. Keshav is currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis with concentrations in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His interests include Breast cancer research and prevention, Tropical diseases, and social entrepreneurship.
Laura Brossart
Laura is the Assistant Director of Communications and Dissemination for CPHSS. She directs the Center’s communications plan and activities, overseeing all internal and external communications. Laura also oversees the design and dissemination of all Center evaluation and research products (print, web, and interactive).
Additionally, Laura serves as the Co-Investigator on the long-running User Guide project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Laura also serves as manager of the Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) core for the Advancing Science & Practice in the Retail Environment (ASPiRE) project and as Dissemination Lead for the Translational Science Benefits Model project.