Chiquita Cade, MPH
Chiquita Cade is the project coordinator for the Represent ATL research project housed within the National Institutes of Health’s RADx-UP initiative. Within this role, she contributes to community engaged research and conducts primary data collection among Black and African American communities throughout Atlanta.
Prior to joining Rollins School of Public Health, Chiquita worked as a graduate research assistant for Represent ATL as she pursued her MPH in epidemiology. Chiquita has extensive work experience in customer engagement, time management, and leadership.
Chiquita is a first-generation college graduate. She received both her bachelor’s in biology and MPH from Georgia State University. Some of her interests include prison reform, combating homelessness and food insecurity, and health equity.
Dr. Heather Bradley, PhD
Heather Bradley is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Emory Rollins School of Public Health. She is an epidemiologist whose main research interests include HIV prevention and treatment outcomes, surveillance methodology, and the intersection of infectious diseases with the U.S. opioid epidemic.
Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, Dr. Bradley worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in various divisions, including the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention and the Division of STD Prevention. From 2016-2018, she was the Associate Chief for Science for the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, where she oversaw the training and research of more than 50 epidemiologists in the Behavioral and Clinical Surveillance Branch.
Dr. Bradley also worked a senior research associate for the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health from 2005 to 2010. During that time, she managed a multi-site research study evaluating integration of family planning and voluntary HIV counseling and testing services in Ethiopia.
Dr. Natasha De Veauuse-Brown, PhD
Dr. Natasha De Veauuse Brown is a Behavioral Health Researcher who has been working at Georgia State University (GSU) since 2013. She has served as the Senior Research Administrator for the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health. Currently, Dr. De Veauuse Brown is a Project Director in Population & Global Health at the Georgia Health Policy Center. Prior to joining GSU, she was a public health consultant for over a decade working with research institutions, colleges, universities, K-12 school districts, area health education centers, rural health care facilities, youth- and faith-based organizations, and community development corporations across the United States. These endeavors yielded successful grant proposals that funded the implementation and evaluation of needs-based services, research, and education projects.
Dr. De Veauuse Brown’s areas of expertise are mental health promotion, violence victimization, racial and health equity, youth ages 12-24, communities of color, community-based participatory research, and program evaluation.
Lisa Diane White, MPH
Lisa Diane White currently serves as both a co-investigator, and as the chair of the Represent ATL’s Community Advisory Board. Lisa Diane has been an outspoken feminist, educator, activist and advocate for the advancement of women and girls’ health and status globally, including access to clinical trials and biomedical HIV prevention.
Lisa Diane is an accomplished and recognized speaker, facilitator, trainer and consultant. She expertly intersects many social justice issues, including feminism; women’s and LGBTQIA+ health and justice; sexual and reproductive justice; lesbian intimate partner violence; gender based violence; spirituality, healing, substance abuse; HIV/AIDS; Sexual Transmitted Infections (STI’s) intergenerational relationships, aging and human rights.
Dr. Rhonda Holliday, PhD
Dr. Rhonda Conerly Holliday is a Developmental Psychologist and currently an Associate Professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Morehouse School of Medicine. She received her B.S. degree in Psychology from Morris Brown College. She received her masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she was a recipient of the Comprehensive Minority Faculty Developmental Fellowship.
Dr. Conerly Holliday completed post-doctoral training in psychosocial oncology at the American Cancer Society (ACS), where she later served as the Director of Special Populations Research. She completed a second post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health focused on HIV and substance use prevention. Her main research interests are minority health issues, health disparities, health equity and community based participatory research. She has a particular focus on HIV and substance use prevention among adolescent and adult populations involved in the justice system. She has conducted research in the United States, South Africa, and Swaziland.
Dr. Lia Scott, PhD
Dr. Lia Scott is an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences for the School of Public Health. Her general research interests include identifying the various individual, policy, social and physical environmental factors that drive social and structural inequities by combining spatial analysis, advanced statistical modeling and epidemiologic methods. She aims to quantify the effect these factors have on cancer outcomes in cancers that disproportionately impact Black women, emphasizing triple-negative breast cancer. Her research focuses on the intersection of race and structural racism using population-based data to evaluate disparities in incidence, mortality, survival and other outcomes.
Before joining the School of Public Health, Dr. Scott was an assistant professor of hematology and medical oncology at Emory University School of Medicine with a co-appointment as an epidemiologist for the Hemophilia of Georgia Center for Bleeding Clotting Disorders of Emory.
Dr. Scott earned her BS in Chemistry at Elizabeth City State University and her MPH and Ph.D. in Epidemiology at Georgia State University, where she was a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellow. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control as a Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellow.
Dr. Ya-Hui, PhD
Dr. Ya-Hui Yu is an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health. Her research interests include understanding the impacts of maternal metabolic abnormalities and pregnancy complications on the health of mothers and offspring, as well as drug safety evaluation for the use during pregnancy. Another aspect of her research has focused on leveraging innovative methodologies and study designs to improve causal inference in observational studies using large administrative/clinical databases.
Prior to joining Georgia State University, she completed her postdoctoral training at McGill University and was also a trainee in the Drug Safety and Effectiveness Cross-Disciplinary Training Program (DSECT) sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh and her MS in epidemiology from National Taiwan University.
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