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Jesenia Pizarro-Terrill studies situational factors around gun violence, specifically, what combination of circumstances might lead to or avoid a shooting, such as weapon selection.

As an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, her research focuses on the importance of understanding the situational factors that result in violence. In doing this, she examines violence and homicide through the lens of theories of crime, and how various contextual factors come together in time and place to result in a homicide. While her research focus centers on violence, she also studies the politics of punishment. With a surge in funding for gun violence studies, she is helping to set the national agenda on research into pediatric firearm injury and death.

Christina Economos, PhD is the Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, the New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition, and a Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. At the Friedman School, she co-founded and served as Director of , a nationally renowned research initiative focused on evidence-based interventions, multi-sector partnerships, and stakeholder networks to address the complex drivers of child health and promote equity. 
Dr. Economos currently serves as the principal investigator on multiple large-scale, community-based interventions that examine childhood nutrition and physical activity with the goal of improving the health of all of America's children. Her bio-behavioral research studies are interdisciplinary and include theory-based obesity prevention interventions, cutting-edge systems science, and partnerships with diverse populations in urban and rural communities in schools, out-of-school environments, childcare centers, and restaurants.

Dr. Zaman has over 10 years of research experience in implementing, managing, monitoring and evaluating health projects and research studies on infectious and chronic diseases. His research focuses on the use of community health workers, strengthening health systems and promotion of m-health technology in prevention and diagnosis of chronic disease. He has worked with multidisciplinary research teams across both developing and developed countries, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Thailand and Germany. 
Given his scientific contributions, Dr. Zaman has authored, co-authored or edited over 100 peer-reviewed papers, with more than 50,000 career citations, and has presented 20+ abstracts at international conferences. Currently, he is working with the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services (IIHHS) at JMU in collaboration with Virginia Department of Health (VDH) to evaluate the impact of chronic disease projects in Virginia.