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Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, is the founding director of the Optimal Aging Institute at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a professor of Population Health and Medicine.

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Moyses Szklo, MD, MPH, is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his medical degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and both his Master of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health degrees from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology, and a visiting professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Institute of Public Health.

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Christine Mitchell, ScM is a senior research associate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she earned her master’s degree in 2009.  Her expertise is in project management of multicenter clinical research studies to ensure their successful conduct.  She has been involved in overseeing and coordinating all aspects of research including design and grant writing, implementation, data collection and cleaning, and data analysis, and manuscript preparation.  Christine is project manager for the ACHIEVE study, a randomized t

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Josh Betz, MS, is biostatistician in the Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Consulting Center and is an assistant scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He obtained his MS in biostatistics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2012 and joined Johns Hopkins shortly afterwards. He has worked on epidemiological studies, clinical trials, software for data visualization and study design and providing statistical consulting to public health researchers.

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Pablo Martinez Amezcua, MD, PhD, MHS is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology. He earned his medical degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. He then completed his Master of Health Science degree and doctorate in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Alison R. Huang, PhD, MPH, is Deputy Director of Research for the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health and an Assistant Scientist of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Huang oversees the Cochlear Center’s academic research portfolio, playing a central role in shaping and implementing the Center's scientific vision and strategic direction. She also manages the scientific productivity of ongoing studies, including major initiatives such as the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) randomized trial. 

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Esther Oh, MD, PhD, is the Sarah Miller Coulson Human Aging Project Scholar and a Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (Department of Medicine) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She holds appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Neuropathology and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and is a core faculty member of the Cochlear Center on Hearing and Public Health.

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Nicholas Reed, AuD, PhD, is an associate professor at the Optimal Aging Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine (Faculty - Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Population Health) and an adjunct professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

He approaches his intervention work through an implementation science lens with a focus on sustainable interventions to create a more equitable health care system for the millions of adults with hearing loss. 

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Carrie L. Nieman, MD, MPH is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. She is core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and principal faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Center for Equity in Aging. Her research is directed at advancing  affordable, accessible hearing care for older adults through public health-driven approaches. 

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Jennifer A. Deal, PhD, is an epidemiologist and gerontologist with expertise in cognitive aging. She is an associate professor in the Departments of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.