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— Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody)

About CAIH

Center Directors

Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH, Director
Dr. Santosham has been Director of the Center since its inception in 1991. He is Professor and Director of the Health Systems Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests focus on the clinical and epidemiological aspects of vaccine preventable bacterial and viral infections of children.

Katherine L. O’Brien, MD, MPH, Associate Director
Dr. O’Brien has been Associate Director of Infectious Disease Programs at the Center since 2001. She is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests center around the clinical and epidemiological aspects of vaccine preventable bacterial and viral infections of children.

Allison Barlow, MPH, MA, Associate Director
Ms. Barlow, MPH, MA, joined the Center in 1991, as director of development and communications and became Associate Director of Behavioral Health Programs in 2002. Her research and program development work focuses on family-based approaches to child and adolescent behavioral and mental health promotion for reservation-based American Indian tribes.

Faculty

Nicole Neault, MPH, Albuquerque
Kristen Speakman, MPH, Albuquerque

Niranjan Bhat, MD, Baltimore
Aruna Chandran, MD, Baltimore
Mary Cwik, Ph.D., Baltimore
Kristin Lake, MPH, Baltimore
Britta Mullany, Ph.D., Baltimore
Mindy Perilla, MPH, Baltimore
Julia Powers, MHS, Baltimore
Lauren Tingey, MPH, Baltimore
John Walkup, MD, Baltimore

Jim Campbell, MD, Gallup, NM
Dan VanDeRiet, MD, Gallup, NM

Raymond Reid, MD, Shiprock, NM

Laura Brown, MD, Whiteriver, AZ
Kathleen Norton, BA, Whiteriver, AZ