Henrick Harwood is the Director of Research and Program Applications of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD), a 501c3 entity that works on behalf of the respective States, the District of Columbia, and the Territories to promote improved delivery of public substance abuse services. He has over 30 years of experience examining the economic costs of health disorders and doing economic analysis of the effectiveness and financing of health care, with a concentration in behavioral health. Previously, he worked at The Lewin Group, which he joined in March 1992. In prior positions, he served as Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Executive Office of the President, and was on the professional staff of the Institute of Medicine and the Research Triangle Institute.
Mr. Harwood has provided consultation and expert advice to the Center for Mental Health Services; National Institute of Mental Health; Center for Substance Abuse Treatment; Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; National Institute on Drug Abuse; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; General Accounting Office of U.S. Congress; and Staff of the U.S. Congress, as well as testimony before the U.S. Senate. In addition, he has been consulted by and made formal presentations to numerous non-federal entities such as NASADAD, single state agencies for substance abuse services, and provider and advocacy associations, and he has been an invited participant in international work groups and meetings addressing substance abuse service issues.
B.A., Economics, Stetson University, Deland, Florida, 1973
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics (Labor and Public Policy), ABD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jody Sindelar is a Professor of Public Health and Economics at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM), and at the Yale University Department of Economics. In addition, Dr. Sindelar is a Research Associate at the National Bureau Economic Research (NBER); Research Fellow at IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor); Associated Faculty at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale; and Bing Visiting faculty at Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA, and Washington, DC. She has been the President-elect, President, Past President, and founding member of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon).
Dr. Sindelar is an expert on the economics of substance abuse, including alcoholism, illicit drugs, and smoking, as well as obesity. Her studies include lost productivity, cost-effectiveness of treatments, social costs, and policy. She has published over 100 papers and studies on the impacts of substance abuse on productivity, educational attainment, gender differences, and related policy issues in economics, policy, addiction, health, and medical journals. She has served on numerous editorial, review, advisory, and other boards and committees, and she has presented her research at seminars and conferences both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Sindelar has over three decades of research experience in health economics, health and work, aging, and retirement, and she has mentored junior faculty in these fields. She has also been a principal investigator or collaborator on numerous past research projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Connecticut Department of Social Services, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Veteran’s Administration (VA), and Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI), among others.
Stanford University, B.A. and M.A., Economics, 1974
Stanford University, Ph.D., Economics, 1980
University of Chicago, Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1978-1980
Pebbles Fagan is Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Dr. Fagan has over 20 years of experience in conducting research that aims to increase our knowledge on how to reduce tobacco- and cancer-related health disparities in racial/ethnic, socially disadvantaged, and marginalized communities. She has long-standing track record of using team-based science to examine social, behavioral, and biobehavioral factors associated with these disparities. In addition, she has led efforts to unravel the unique factors that contribute to the growing popularity of flavored tobacco, dual use behaviors, quitting behaviors, and nicotine dependence among young adults who consume flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes, little cigars/cigarillos, and electronic cigarettes. Her recent studies have largely focused on conducting research within a tobacco regulatory science framework to inform the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA's) regulation of flavored tobacco products. She is currently the Co-I on several tobacco-regulatory science grants funded by the National Institutes of Health and the FDA. Dr. Fagan also serves as a co-investigator on a colorectal cancer screening grant, and she is highly committed to diversifying the research workforce, dedicated to mentoring faculty and students, and steadfast in working with communities to eliminate health disparities.
In 2015, Dr. Fagan was appointed to the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee, Center for Tobacco Products, FDA. In 2012, she received an Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University. In 2007, she received the NIH Merit Award for her leadership in tobacco-related health disparities research. Dr. Fagan received the NCI Director's Award in 2006 for her collaborative work in training minority investigators and was recognized by Aetna Insurance in the Aetna African American History Calendar, 25th Anniversary Edition, for her work in tobacco-related health disparities. Dr. Fagan is a member of the American Public Health Association; the American Association for Cancer Research; founding member of the Tobacco and Health Disparities Committee of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco; Soroptimist International of Waikiki Foundation, Incorporated; and The Links Incorporated, Hawaii Chapter. Dr. Fagan enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, gardening, and cooking. She loves the outdoors, live music, and good food.
University of Virginia, B.A., Rhetoric and Communications, Afro-American Studies, 1990
Tulane University School of Public Health, M.P.H., Health Education/Communications, 1994
Texas A&M University, Ph.D., Health Education, 1997
