Ronald Aubert is Visiting Professor of the Practice of Race and Ethnicity, CSREA and The School of Public Health. He is also a Faculty Director of the Presidential Scholars Program at Brown University.  Prior to joining Brown he has worked as Director of Research Strategy in the Data Generation and Observational Studies group at Bayer Healthcare, LLC; Chief Science Officer and lead scientist for Research and Evaluation Analytics, LLC; Vice President of Advanced Analytics in Medco Health Solutions’ Department of Advanced Clinical Services and Research; Senior Health Care Analyst at the Aetna Center for Health Care Research; and a Commander for the U.S. Public Health Service, Chief of the Epidemiology Section, Division of Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  He has held appointments at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina; Rutgers School of Public Health and Emory University School of Medicine. He received a B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College, an M.S.P.H. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship at the CDC. 

Laura López-Sanders’ research examines the role of institutions and societal policies and practices in the patterning of inequality. This research includes a study of immigrant integration in regions undergoing rapid demographic change, an analysis of the processes and mechanisms that influence the transition from a two-group (i.e., black and white) to a three group (i.e., black-white-Latino) racial system, and an investigation of racial competition before and after the Great Recession. To examine these dynamics, she conducted interviews and ethnographic research while working and living alongside Latino immigrant, African American, and white populations in South Carolina. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the subject. On a related line of research, López-Sanders examines the ways in which health care reform influences access to and the delivery of health services for undocumented Latino immigrants at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and community hospitals. She is extending this research to examine how the experiences of Latino immigrants with health care reform in traditional immigrant destinations compare with the experiences of this population in new immigrant destinations.

​Amal Trivedi is a general internist and health services researcher who studies quality of care and health care disparities, with particular emphasis on the impact of patient and provider incentives on quality and equity of care. His research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. Dr. Trivedi teaches on health policy issues to medical students and residents and teaches a course on Quality Measurement and Improvement for graduate students.​