Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago

Brittany Rudd, PhD is an Instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry and the Director of the Implementation Science and System-Involved Youth Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The central theme of Dr. Rudd’s program of research is improving access to quality mental health care among vulnerable populations.

Professor of Social Sciences and Public Health, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University Graham Moore, PhD joined the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences in 2005 as a Research Assistant, while completing an MSc in the University of Bristol. Dr. Moore completed his ESRC funded PhD within the school in 2010, subsequently taking up a post-doctoral role, before obtaining an MRC funded personal fellowship. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in 2016 and achieved promotion to Reader in 2018 then to Professor in 2020. Within his current role, Moore is Deputy Director & Health Public Policy programme lead in the Centre for Development Evaluation Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) funded by Health & Care Research Wales. Moore is also an investigator, and Wales academic lead, on a large UKPRP funded consortium focused on commercial determinants of health and health inequalities (Shaping Public hEalth poliCies To Reduce ineqUalities and harM; SPECTRUM). Further, he is an investigator (and workstream co-lead) on the new Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health to be established in 2020.

Communication and Dissemination Scientist, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Jenna Reno, PhD is a Communication and Dissemination Scientist with D2V and a Research Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine. Previously, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with CU’s Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS). Dr. Reno earned her PhD in Communication with an emphasis on health campaign and message design at the University of Kentucky. Her research aims to investigate the role of an evolving media and technology environment on health promotion. Specifically, she focuses on developing, implementing, and evaluating theoretically based, mHealth specific communication and dissemination strategies to promote positive healthcare decisions and health outcomes. Her research examines mediated, technological, and social influences on health and is guided by interdisciplinary theories, specifically persuasion and behavior change theories that address the role of socio-cultural and information processing factors. Currently, she also is a member of the #HPVFreeCO team where she works with public health departments across the state to promote HPV vaccination and reduce the burden of HPV-related disease and cancers among Coloradans.