Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx is an Associate Professor of Scholarly Practice and Associate Dean for Practice & Community Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She holds the Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community Practice. Dr. Sullivan-Marx had eight years of hospital based and community nursing practice before launching a career as a primary care nurse practitioner in 1980. Throughout the following two decades, Dr. Sullivan-Marx began three new geriatric nurse practitioner practices that are on-going today. Dr. Sullivan-Marx is a 2010 Health and Aging Policy Fellow focusing on community based care for vulnerable older adults. She is an active international and national consultant on nurse practitioner and geriatric practice issues and oversees the School's practice and community mission that includes the Living Independently For Elders (LIFE), a program of comprehensive integrated health and social services for older adults in West Philadelphia as well as the Healthy in Philadelphia Initiative, the Center for Professional Development, and Penn Nursing Consultation Service. She is a leading researcher on improving functional outcomes of older adults in community and institutional settings. She received the Eastern Nursing Society Hartford Geriatric Nurse Research Award in 2008. Dr. Sullivan-Marx most recently chaired the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Senior Care and Services Study Commission appointed by Governor Rendell to project services and resources needed for Pennsylvanians.

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Dr. Marjorie Muecke (“mecka”) is Assistant Dean, Global Health Affairs; Associate Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership; and Adjunct Professor of Family and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is a Paul G Rogers Ambassador for Global Health Research. She holds an MA from New York University in Nursing in Child Psychiatry, and MA and PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is committed to promoting equity in opportunities for health and access to appropriate health care in lower income countries.

Dr. Muecke has received grant funding from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright, NICHD, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Washington, and the US Dept. of Education. She has been a visiting scholar at ChiangMai University Faculty of Nursing and Women’s Studies Center; at the Institute of Education, University of London; and at the University of Melbourne’ Women’s Studies Research Center. She has served on the editorial boards of a variety of journals including Culture, Health and Sexuality, the Thai Journal of Nursing Research, the Medical Anthropology Quarterly. She had led study abroad trips for nursing students and nurses to Botswana, Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal. Her research focuses upon the shifting interplay of gender and socioeconomic status upon health across generations and the life span in urban northern Thai families. She also has numerous publications on the health of resettled refugees in the USA

Prior to joining the Penn Nursing School in 2006, she was Professor in the University of Washington (UW) School of Nursing; served on UW’s International Health Program faculty; and was Director (2000-4) of the Southeast Asia Center and Studies Program at the Jackson School of International Studies. She was Program Officer in Reproductive Health & Sexuality for the Ford Foundation in New York 1993-8.

She is fluent in spoken, reading and written Thai, and reads French, Spanish and German.

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Ramesh Raghavan, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and is jointly appointed at the Brown School, and at the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine. He is a Scholar at the University’s Institute of Public Health, a faculty associate at the Brown School’s Center for Mental Health Services Research, and a faculty fellow at the Center for Applied Statistics.

Before coming to Washington University, he served as policy director for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, which is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/Center for Mental Health Services. He also held an academic appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Bio-Behavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Dr. Raghavan conducts health services research on the effects of social disadvantage upon mental well-being among vulnerable children. Dr Raghavan has conducted studies on Medicaid managed care and their effects on utilization of inpatient and ambulatory mental health services for children in child welfare settings (funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), on the effects of health insurance instability on mental health service use (funded by the Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Children and Families). He is currently studying the use of public finance mechanisms to promote quality of mental health services for these children (funded by the National Institute of Mental Health). His prior research has examined psychotropic medication use among children in child welfare environments, sexual victimization among adolescent women, and implementation of mental health interventions in public settings.

Dr. Raghavan completed medical school at Stanley Medical College, Madras in 1994, and a psychiatric residency at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal in 1997, before coming to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While at UCLA he completed a fellowship in pediatric pain in 1999, following which he worked at the UCLA/ RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, a joint center between UCLA and the RAND Corporation that undertakes research and policy analysis on issues related to child and adolescent health. He earned a PhD in health services from UCLA in 2003.

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