IDEAS Academic Advisors

An interdisciplinary approach 

The IDEAS Consortium is desgined to take full advantage of linked, cross-agency data from a myriad of programs that affect child development. 

Researchers with diverse expertise, across academic disciplines, have begun to collaborate systematically to better understand and utilize data to effect change. 

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  • U-LINK / UM Laboratory for INtegrative Knowledge

    The IDEAS Consortium has been supported by the Interdisciplinary Inquiry initiative under UM's Roadmap to Our New Century, which supports teams of scholars from multiple disciplines in collaborative, problem-based inquiry to address the complex challenges of society.

    More information is available on the U-LINK website. 

  • UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities

    Dr. Lisa Stanley is Project Director for the national Data Informed Futures program at UCLA, which focuses on promoting the health and well-being of young children at a local level.  She advises the IDEAS Consortium and coordinates its use of the Early Development Instrument to supplement administrative measures of child development.  

  • UF Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies

    Dr. Herman Knopf is a Senior Research Scientist at the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies and serves as Project Director on the Florida Sunshine Information Portal.  The program collaborated with the IDEAS Consortium on research funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 

    Dr. Karla Shelnutt is Associate Professor at the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, for the Department of Life Sciences, Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Science.

  • UM Department of Geography and Regional Studies

    Dr. Imelda Moise, now at Nova Southeastern University, is a health geographer and public health scholar who continues to advise the IDEAS Consortium on the mapping of neighborhood factors impacting child well-being.  

    Christopher Hanson is an expert in mapping, GIS, and visualization of data who has worked with Dr. Moise on data displays related to the IDEAS Consortium and its community-based partners.  

  • UM Department of History

    Dr. Robin Bachin shares her expertise on affordable housing and urban resilience.

  • UM Department of Psychology

    Dr. Rebecca Shearer organized the IDEAS Consortium and helps to integrate preschool children’s individual data, census-tract indicators, early childhood program participation, and K-3 outcomes. She contributes expertise in child development, early childhood education, integrated data systems, and multilevel longitudinal modeling.

    Dr. Christine Delgado provides expertise on children with disabilities, sociodemographic and environmental risk factors, and data linkage methodology.

  • UM Institute for Data Science & Computing

    Christopher Mader shares his expertise on computational sciences, big data, data integration and software development. 

    Deepthi Puram works with the IDEAS Consortium to link large, complex data sets. 

  • UM Miller School of Medicine - Pediatrics

    Dr. Ruby Natale shares her expertise in early childhood systems of care within traditionally disenfranchised communities. 

    Dr. Jeffrey Brosco has provided expertise on social determinants of health, early screening, population-based and public health models of prevention.

     

  • Behavioral Science Research Institute

    Megan Hartman is the Associate Director of the Behavioral Science Research Institute and provides expertise in evaluation projects prioritizing community collaboration and social change. 

     

    More information is available on http://www.bsrinstitute.org

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