About the Experts The Coronavirus-19 Outbreak Response Experts (CORE-19) team at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a network of researchers in public health, economics, public policy, agriculture, veterinary medicine, and other disciplines who seek to provide timely and evidence-based information for policymakers, industry, and the public on pressing questions regarding the global pandemic. Steering Committee Dr. Kathleen C. Brown, PhD, MPH Brown is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Public Health and the Program Director for the Master's in Public Health (MPH) degree. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of individuals and communities. She has experience in local public health in epidemiology, risk reduction and health promotion.Read bio Dr. Katie A. Cahill, PhD Cahill is the Associate Director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. She also is the Director of the Center's Leadership and Governance program and holds a courtesy faculty position in the Department of Political Science. Her area of expertise is public health policy. She leads the Healthy Appalachia project.Read bio Dr. Kristina W. Kintziger, PhD, MPH Kintziger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and the co-Director of the Doctoral Program. She has worked in academia and public health practice, and comes to Tennessee from the Florida Department of Health, where she worked as an epidemiologist and biostatistician. She is an environmental and infectious disease epidemiologist.Read bio Dr. Matthew N. Murray, PhD Murray is the Director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. He also is the Associate Director of the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research and is a professor in the Department of Economics in the Haslam College of Business. He has led the team producing Tennessee's annual economic report to the governor since 1995.Read bio Dr. Agricola Odoi, BVM, MSc, PhD Odoi is a professor of epidemiology at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. He teaches quantitative and geographical epidemiology and his research interests are in population health and impact of place on health and access to health services. He was a public health epidemiologist before joining academia.Read bio Dr. Marcy J. Souza, DVM, MPH Souza is an associate professor and Director of Veterinary Public Health in the UT College of Veterinary Medicine. Her teaching and research focuses on zoonotic diseases and food safety issues. Read bio Student Support Matthew Dovgan, Graduate Student Intern, 1st Year Medical Student, Creighton University School of Medicine (Summer 2020) Katherine Fulcher, Undergraduate Student responsible for Spanish Translations, Department of Political Science and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Hannah Knoch, Undergraduate Student responsible for Press and Media Requests, Department of Advertising and Public Relations Isabelle Marshall, Undergraduate Student responsible for Tennessee Pulse Survey and Data Dashboard, Department of Political Science John Neal, Undergraduate Student responsible for Tennessee Pulse Survey and Data Dashboard, Department of Political Science Hancen Sale, Undergraduate Student Researcher, Department of Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy Analytics (Spring to Summer 2020) Breanna Tremblay, Graduate Student Researcher, Master's in Public Health, Department of Public Health (Summer 2020) Zoe Ward, Undergraduate Student responsible for Tennessee Pulse Survey and Data Dashboard, Department of Public Health Expert Team Dr. Cristina Barroso, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Areas of Expertise: Health Disparties, Underserved Populations Dr. Michael Blackwell, Director, College of Social Work | Areas of Expertise: Veterinary Medicine, Underserved Populations Dr. Kathleen C. Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health | Areas of Expertise: Local Public Health in Epidemiology, Risk Reduction and Health Promotion Zack Buck, JD Associate Professor, College of Law | Areas of Expertise: Health Law Dr. Katie A. Cahill, Associate Director, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy| Areas of Expertise: Public Policy, Public Health Policy Dr. Samantha Ehrilich, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health | Areas of Expertise: Maternal and Child Epidemiology Dr. Nina H. Fefferman, Professor and Associate Director, Department of Ecology and Evoluntionary Biology & Department of Mathematics & One Health Initative | Areas of Expertise: Mathematical Models of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Pandemic Preparedness, Biosecurity, Public Health Policy, and Behavioral Responses to Threat Dr. Matt Harris, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research | Areas of Expertise: Health and Labor Economics Dr. Maria Hurt, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing | Areas of Expertise: Community Outreach to Underserved Populations Joseph Jarret, JD Lecturer Attorney at Law, Department of Political Science | Areas of Expertise: Local Law and Emergency Management Dr. Melissa Kennedy, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine | Areas of Expertise: Veterinary Virology Dr. Kristina W. Kintziger, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health | Areas of Expertise: Environmenal and Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Timothy Kuhn, Director, Tennessee State Data Center, Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research | Areas of Expertise: TN COVID-19 Case Tracking Map, US Census Data Dr. Roberta Lavin, Professor, College of Nursing, Areas of Expertise: Health and Human Service Emergency Preparedness and Policy Dr. Deborah Penchoff, High-Performance Computing Scientist, Institute for Nuclear Security, Areas of Expertise: Data Analytics and High Performance Computing (HPC) Dr. Rachel McCord, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology | Areas of Expertise: Genomics, Bioinformatics, DNA/RNA Sequencing Dr. Carole R. Myers, Professor, College of Nursing, Areas of Expertise: Health Policy, Access ot Care, Medicaid (TennCare, ACA, Rural Health and Health Care Dr. Matthew Murray, Director, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, Associate Director, Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research, Professor, Department of Economics| Areas of Expertise: Economic Forecasting, Tax Policy Dr. Agricola Odoi, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine| Areas of Expertise: Quantiative and Geographical Epidemiology Dr. Evah W. Odoi Assistant Professor (adjuct), Department of Public Health, College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Areas of Expertise: Epidemiology and Environmental Sciences Dr. Chika Okafor, Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine | Areas of Expertise: Veterinary Public Health, Food Safety and Epidemiology Dr. Charles Sims, Associate Professor, Department of Economics; Director of Energy & Environment Program, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy | Areas of Expertise: Zoonotic Diseases and Food Safety Dr. Marcy Souza, Associate Professor and Director, Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine | Areas of Expertise: Veterinary Medicine, Underserved Populations Dr. Liem Tran, Professor, Department of Geography, Areas of Expertise: Spatial Modeling, System Dynamics Modeling Dr. Jackie Yenerall, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics | Areas of Expertise: Public Health Economics