COPHI Members
Active COPHI Members
COPHI is a growing network of individuals committed to understanding and addressing the complex relationship between poverty, health, and social instability. Our members bring unique perspectives and expertise, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and meaningful impact while advancing research and translating knowledge into action.
| Member Name | Organization | Area of Research Practice |
| Elena Broddus, PhD, MSPH | CU Anschutz, Department of Family Medicine | My work focuses on strengthening the role that primary care can play in patient-level food and nutrition security and in advocating for resources and policy to improve food and nutrition security at the community level. |
| Hannah Crook, PhD | CU Anschutz, Farley Center | I am a health policy and health services researcher with a focus on Medicaid. My previous work has largely focused around payment mechanisms, access to care, and network structures. I am a mixed-methods researcher, with experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods. |
| Jessica Rast, PhD | Denver Health | My background is in observational epidemiology, big data, and health services research. I focus on the emergency department as a key source of care for vulnerable populations, and particularly how it can be used to connect people ton ongoing care. Some specific topics of interests include mental health care, substance use, preventable emergency department visits, and hypertension. Some populations of interest include people experiencing homelessness, pregnant people, and people with public insurance or uninsured. |
| Kathleen Joseph, MD | Denver Health | Substance Use, Homeless Health, Trauma Informed Care, Emergency Medicine, Social Emergency Medicine. |
| Kathryn Bowman, MD | CU Anschutz Infectious Disease | Tuberculosis and TB/HIV co-infection / Immunology |
| Kellie Hawkins, MD | Denver Health | Implementation Science, HIV Outcomes, Low-barrier care, Substance use, Clinical Trials, Pragmatic Research, Long-acting antivirals, Health Equity. |
| Tran Doan, MPH, PhD | CU Anschutz | Research methods expertise: economic evaluations, economic burden, simulation modeling, mixed methods research, preference elicitation surveys, conjoint analysis, medical decision-making Content matter expertise: patient- and family-centered care models, social needs screening, mental health, behavioral health, chronic conditions |
| Virginia McCarthy, DrPH, MPH, MDiv | CU Anschutz | Community-based violence intervention and prevention, particularly firearm injury, through hospital-based violence intervention programs and post-discharge wraparound models of care- community- and hospital-based (TRC-inspired/adjacent). |
| Member Name | Member Organization | Area of Research Practice |
| Ashley Brooks-Russell, PhD, MPH | CU Anschutz | Injury and violence outcomes such as suicide prevention, violence prevention, and substance use, especially in adolescent populations; public health surveillance |
| Benjamin Li, MD | Denver Health | Community violence intervention and firearm injury prevention; hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs); social emergency medicine and social determinants of health; violent injury risk prediction among youth; health policy and Medicaid financing for violence prevention services in safety-net populations. |
| Elizabeth Brickley, PhD, MPhil | CU Anschutz | Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Public Health Mixed Methods (Qualitative & Quantitative), Community Engaged Research, Global Health Pedagogy |
| Jason Haukoos, MD | Denver Health | Social EM, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases, (HIV/HCV, principally), Vulnerable Populations |
| Liza Creel, PhD | CU Anschutz | I am a health services researcher with primary research in the areas of Medicaid policy and implementation (including for children and young adults with child welfare involvement and those served through home and community based waivers), perinatal substance use disorder (funding from BHA for implementation of integrated care models to support families), and systems of care (how organizations work together to serve patients and families). I have methodological expertise in causal inference, economic analyses, and social network analysis, and experience analyzing large administrative datasets (e.g. Medicaid claims, CO APCD, HCUP, etc). Mostly I love team science and collaborating with great people on important work. |
| Tyler Brown, MD | CU Anschutz | Tuberculosis transmission science and prevention, epidemic dynamics and spatial epidemiology of infectious disease, social determinants of community-level epidemic vulnerability |
| Member Name | Member Organization | Area of Research Focus |
| Anuj Mehta, MD | Health services, critical care outcomes, clinical trials, D&I, qualitative methods, big data analysis. | |
| Devin Miller, MPH, DrPH | The Care Collaborative & General Internal Medicine | Telehealth and digital health; healthcare access and delivery innovation; Medicaid and safety-net systems; population health; learning health systems; program evaluation; and health policy translation. |
| Elizabeth Carlton,PhD, MPH | CU Anschutz, Department of Environmental & Occuplational Health | Environmental health sciences Infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance and modeling |
| Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA | CU Anschutz, ACCORDS & Department of Family Medicine | Refugee Health Health disparities in community and primary care settings Engaging marginalized and/or vulnerable populations in research as partners and advisors |
| Risha Gidwani, DrPh, MA, BA | CU Anschutz, Medicine-Health Care Policy Research | Health policy, insurance benefit design, health insurance literacy, quality of care, patient financial burden, healthcare affordability |
| Member Name | Member Organization | Area of Research Focus |
| Aaryn Mathias, BS | Cu Anschutz | Substance Use Disorders Criminal Justice Health LGBTQ+ Health |
| Donald Burnes, PhD | 40 Years of Work on homelessness, both as service provider and as author and researcher. | |
| Kirk Fetters,MD | CU Anschutz Fellow | HIV, homelessness, addiction medicine. |
| Lauren Kerr | Cu Anschutz Staff | My work sits at the intersection of epidemiology and biostatistics with a focus on vulnerable populations and health inequities. I have worked extensively with populations affected by substance use disorders and housing instability. In my current role as a data analyst, I work closely with large data to support research that aims to better understand and address health disparities, and inform evidence-based decision making. |
| Pranav Padmanabhan | CU Anschutz Staff & PhD Student | Simulation modeling, spatial analysis, causal inference, social determinants of health, substance use epidemiology, housing and homelessness |
| Rose Hyson, PhD | Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute | Lived experiences with chronic conditions among people experiencing homelessness, Behavioral interventions for people experiencing homelessness with Type 2 diabetes or CV health risks, Behavioral interventions for people in jails with SUD, Implementation science |
| Sarah Staron | CU Anschutz Staff | Community participatory research, whole health program evaluation, formalizing cross-sector community collaboration |
| Shawna McGuckin | Family Resource Center Association | Family Economic Sustainability and Social Determinates of Health |