Center for Research on People of Color

Our Team

Executive Founding Director

  • Jacquelyn Y. Taylor, PhD, PNP-BC, RN, FAHA, FAAN

    • Columbia University School of Nursing

    Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing

    Founding Director, Center for Research on People of Color

    Founding Executive Director, Kathleen Hickey Endowed Lectureship

    Senior Advisor to Chief of Division of Cardiology, CUIMC

Affiliate Members

  • Suzanne B. Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI

    • Columbia University School of Nursing

    Professor of Biomedical Informatics

    Alumni Professor of the School of Nursing

    Director, Center for Precision in Symptom Self-Management (PriSSM)

    Director, Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics Training Program

    Vice Dean of Strategic & Innovative Research

  • Veronica Barcelona, PhD, MSN, RN, PHNA-BC, FAAN

    • Columbia University School of Nursing

    Assistant Professor of Nursing

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  • Enobong (Anna) Branch, PhD

    • Rutgers University

    Professor of Sociology

    Senior Vice President for Equity at Rutgers University 

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  • Billy Caceres, PhD, MSN, RN

    • Columbia University School of Nursing

    Assistant Professor of Nursing

  • Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD

    • NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

    Director, Center for Human Genetics and Genomics

    Professor, Institute for Systems Genetics

    Professor, Department of Medicine

    Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology

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  • Waverly Duck, PhD

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

    Professor of Sociology

    North Hall Endowed Chair

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  • Lorraine Frazier, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN

    • Columbia University School of Nursing

    Dean of Columbia University School of Nursing

    Mary O'Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing

    Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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  • Ervin Fox, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC

    • The University of Mississippi Medical Center

    Professor of Medicine

    Cardiology Consult Rotation, Attending Physician

    Medical Director of the Clinical Noninvasive Laboratory

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  • Amadou Gaye, PhD, MSc

    • Meharry Medical College

    Chair, Department of Integrative Genomics and Epidemiology

    Associate Professor

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  • Tonda L. Hughes, PhD, RN, FAAN

    • Columbia University School of Nursing

    Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of International Nursing (in Psychiatry)

    Executive Director, Center for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research

  • Paule V. Joseph, CRNP, MBA, Ph.D

    • National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

    Lasker Clinical Research Scholar Tenure Track Clinical Investigator

    Chief of the Section of Sensory Science and Metabolism (SenSMet) in Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research (DICBR)

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  • Eugenia Millender, PhD, RN, MS, PMHNP-BC, FAAN

    • Florida State University College of Nursing

    Assistant Dean for Research

    Marie Cowart Endowed Professor

    Co-Founder and Co-Director, Center of Population Sciences for Health Empowerment

    Visiting Professor at FSU Republic of Panama

    Chair, National Advisory Committee, American Nurses Association/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Minority Fellowship Program

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  • Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS

    • Yale School of Medicine

    C.N.H Long Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Public Health (Socail and Behavioral Science)

    Founding Director, Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC)

    Director, Center for Research Engagement (CRE)

    Director, Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity

    Deputy Director, for Health Equity Research and Workplace Development, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation

    Director, Pozen-Commwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership

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  • Olugbenda Ogedegbe, MD, MPH

    • New York University School of Global Public Health

    Professor, Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine 

    Dr. Adolph and Margaret Berger Professor of Medicine and Population Health, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

    Director, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

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  • Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD, MPH, RN, FAHA

    • Columbia University School of Nursing

    Assistant Professor of Nursing

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  • Daichi Shimbo, MD

    • Columbia University Department of Medicine

    Senior Vice-President and Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs

    Co-Director, Columbia Hypertension Center

    Director, Translational Lab at Columbia

    Director, Cardiovascular Physiology Research, Cardiovascular Ultrasound, Laboratories, Division of Cardiology

    Director, TRANSFORM (TRaining And Nurturing Scholars FOr Research that is Multidisciplinary)

    Associate Dean of Research Career Development

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  • Patricia W. Stone, PhD, MPH, MSN, BSN, FAAN, FAPIC

    • Columbia University School of Nursing

    Centennial Professor of Health Policy in the Faculty of Nursing

    Director, Center for Health Policy

  • Yan V. Sun, PhD, MS

    • Emory University Rollins School of Public Health

    Associate Professor of Epidemiology

    Director of the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology (GME) Certificate Program

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  • Milla Arabadjian, PhD, FNP-BC, RN

    • NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine

    Assistant Professor, Department of Foundations of Medicine

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  • Nakia C. Best, PhD, RN, FAAN

    • University of California, Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing

    Assistant Professor of Nursing

    Board Member, School Nurses of California Foundation

    Vice Chair, City of Irvine Health and Wellness Advisory Committee

  • Tshaka Cunningham, PhD

    • Athari Bioscience

    Chief Scientific Officer

Support Staff

  • Laura Prescott, MA

    • Project Director, CRPC

  • Stephanie Potts-Thompson, MPH

    • Program Manager

  • Morgan Morrison, MA

    • Research Coordinator

  • Erica Matute-Arcos, BA

    • Research Associate

  • Jennifer R. Crespo, RN

    • Research Nurse
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