Anne Duggan, ScD, is HARC’s founding director. She is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and has a background in health policy and management. Since 1992, her research has aimed to strengthen the impact of home visiting and the larger system of early childhood care on healthy family functioning, parenting, and child health and development in at-risk families. Much of her current work is related to the Federal Home Visiting Program. She is co-principal investigator of the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), the national evaluation of the MIECHV Program, and of HARC’s work to assess the quality of home visitor-family communication in visits. She leads statewide evaluative research on home visiting and the system of early childhood care for Maryland and New Jersey. The research in these states is diverse, involving the use of both primary and administrative methods and now, through these two states’ recent MIECHV Innovations award, it serves as a prototype for innovative methods to achieve precision home visiting.

Allison West, PhD, MSW, is an assistant professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. Dr. West is the Principal Investigator for the Maryland State Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Evaluation and co-investigator for the Research to Strengthen Home Visiting Impact on Parental Engagement in Children’s Education (Heising-Simons) project. She also contributes to HARC. Dr. West’s research interests focus on the health and wellbeing of expectant families and families with young children facing multiple, complex adversities. She has a particular interest in dual generation home-based service delivery strategies. Her work incorporates intervention and evaluation research methods to assess program fidelity, test effects of programs and program enhancements on outcomes, and deepen understanding of causal pathways. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and crosses multiple sectors within early childhood systems – health, education, and social services. She obtained her Master’s in Social Work and PhD in Public Health from the University of Maryland.

Jon Korfmacher, Ph.D., is chair of HARC’s Practice-Based Research Network and a Senior Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at University of Chicago. For over 25 years, his research has examined the implementation and outcome of early childhood interventions, parent engagement in early childhood services, and quality assessment, with a special focus on workforce training and development. He has worked on numerous research trials focused on home visiting programs, including Nurse Family Partnership and Early Head Start, as well as other early childhood interventions. He currently oversees the Illinois MIECHV Program Assessment Project. Dr. Korfmacher also consults nationally and internationally on early childhood home visiting research and practice. He is on the Board of Directors for Zero To Three.

Jill Filene, MPH, is the executive vice president at James Bell Associates. Ms. Filene has 20 years of experience in applied research, program evaluation, and technical assistance. She is experienced in designing, implementing, and managing research projects. Her research focuses on home visiting, child welfare, child development, prevention services, and implementation. Ms. Filene directs several home visiting projects, including the National Home Visiting Resource Center, Family Level State of Home Visiting Assessment, and the Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation Technical Assistance Project, and is part of the management team on the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) and MIHOPE-Strong Start studies.

Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP, is the William H. Gates, Sr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Her research focuses on enhancing the quality of preventive services for children and understanding the impact of systems reforms on the health and well-being of children and families. She directs the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health in Education, Science and Practice at Johns Hopkins, serves as a Key Leader for Maryland’s Building Better Beginnings initiative, and co-led, with Dr. Anne Duggan, an effort to develop a framework to promote coordination in the early childhood system.

Deborah Daro, PhD, MCP, is a senior research fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. She has over 40 years of experience in evaluating child abuse treatment and prevention programs. Dr. Daro’s work informs strategies that embed individualized, targeted prevention efforts within more universal efforts to alter normative standards and community context. Her research focuses on child welfare reform and public policy, developing universal systems of support for new parents, and creating community partnerships to protect children.

Brenda Jones Harden, PhD is the Ruth Ottman Professor of Child and Family Welfare at Columbia University School of Social Work. Her research examines the development and mental health of young children experiencing adversity, particularly maltreatment, foster care, or other forms of trauma. She focuses on preventing maladaptive developmental outcomes through early childhood programs, on which she has conducted numerous evaluations. She is currently the President of the Board at Zero to Three. She received a PhD in developmental and clinical psychology from Yale University and a Master’s in Social Work from New York University.

Darius Tandon, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he also is director of Northwestern’s Center for Community Health. Trained as a community psychologist and prevention scientist, his research focuses on improving perinatal mental health outcomes among vulnerable, lower socioeconomic, and ethnically diverse populations. Much of this research has focused on examining the impact and innovation of the Mothers and Babies perinatal depression preventive intervention, including several studies conducted in partnership with home visiting programs.

Kay O’Neill, MSPH, is a research associate in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has six years of experience working with Dr. Anne Duggan in home visiting research. Kay currently serves as the coordinator of HARC, the Home Visiting Research and Development Platform. She has also coordinated several state evaluations and a randomized controlled trial of a brief parenting intervention in Georgia. Kay holds a Master of Science in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Grace Atukpawu-Tipton, MSW, PhD, is a senior research associate at James Bell Associates. She has more than 16 years of experience in applied research, program evaluation, and technical assistance in the areas of child welfare, home visiting, education, and psychology. Dr. Atukpawu-Tipton’s research focuses on two-generation approaches for supporting children and families, early childhood development, evidence-based programs, trauma-informed practice, and the transition of youth from foster care to adulthood. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology from Stanford University and a Master of Social Welfare degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Lori Burrell, MA, LSW, is a Research Associate in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has over 20 years experience in home visiting research.  She currently supports HARC projects to advance the field of precision home visiting. Previously, she was involved in randomized trials of home visiting in Hawaii and Alaska, led MIECHV evaluation activities in New Jersey, and directed efforts to acquire and analyze child maltreatment data across 12 states participating in MIHOPE. Lori holds a Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology and a Master of Social Work.

Diana Chute is Senior Research Coordinator in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Diana holds a BA in developmental psychology from the University of Delaware and an MSPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Rebecca Fauth, M.S., Ph.D. is a developmental psychologist and applied statistician specializing in research and evaluation of social policies and programs on children and families. She is a research assistant professor at Tufts University co-directing the Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research (TIER) group. Rebecca has methodological expertise in mixed methods research, evaluation design, and research-practice integration and has substantive expertise in the influence of poverty, neighborhoods, community, and family contexts on children’s health and development and family well-being. She is principal investigator (PI) on several evaluations focused on home visiting and other dual-generation family support programs and community-wide place-based initiatives. Rebecca an M.S. in applied statistics and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, both from Columbia University.

Heather Johnson, MPH, is a research associate at James Bell Associates. She has more than 9 years of experience planning, implementing, and evaluating maternal and child health programs. Johnson has extensive experience with the Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV). Prior to her current work with JBA, she worked as the home visiting data and implementation team lead and the director of CQI for the state of Alabama’s home visiting programs. She also spent three years as a home visitor and program supervisor in Birmingham, AL. She holds an MPH from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Matthew Poes, MS, is a senior research associate at James Bell Associates. Matt has more than 16 years of expertise in research design and child development interventions with an emphasis on home visiting, education, and early childhood program evaluation and evidence-based policy. He is part of the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC) research and development team. Matt is a CQI, performance measurement, and evaluation technical assistance liaison to the Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV). He has provided both individual and universal TA around evaluation, CQI, and performance measurement since 2013.

Joelle Ruben, MSW, is a senior communications associate at James Bell Associates. She co-leads HARC’s dissemination efforts, helping to ensure that products are simple to understand and reach their target audiences. Joelle has more than 12 years of experience working on child and family issues in a variety of communications, policy, advocacy, and direct service roles. Her content expertise includes home visiting, youth homelessness, and child welfare.

Ciara Spinosa, MPH is a senior research program coordinator in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She provides project management support across HARC projects and initiatives to advance the field of precision home visiting. Ciara holds a Master of Public Health with a focus in social and behavioral sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Nichole Sturmfels, MPH, is a Senior Data Manager at James Bell Associates.  Nichole has nearly 15 years of experience in applied public health research, data operations management, and technical assistance – primarily in the areas of home visiting, maternal and child health, and child welfare.  Her research interests include data systems and infrastructure that support early childhood systems coordination and linking home visiting data with other social service data sets through the use of information models.  She participates in HARC’s efforts on cross-model collaboration and data sharing to promote a common framework and language that facilities precision home visiting research.  Nichole is the data manager for the Multisite Implementation Evaluation of Tribal home Visiting. Previously, Nichole was co-project director for the California Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting grant.  She served as the chief of the data and evaluation unit, which she led efforts on data systems, collection, and reporting.

Morgan Taylor, MSPH, is a research data analyst in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has worked with the team since 2019. She currently coordinates HARC’s systematic review work. She previously coordinated HARC’s MIECHV Developing Strategies to Facilitate Cross-Model Collaboration and Data Sharing Project (MODS). Morgan holds a Master of Science in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.