People

Hannah Begna, MS, is a research data analyst at C-DIAS. Hannah has dedicated her career to advancing public health and academic research, with experience spanning communicable diseases, HIV, women’s health, and mental health. She holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario and a master’s in global health sciences from the…

Bryan Chauvel, MS, is the Communications Director at C-DIAS, bringing extensive experience in comprehensive marketing and communications. Previously, he led communications at St. Anthony Foundation, where he enhanced the organization’s profile through strategic storytelling, strengthened fundraising efforts, and ensured brand consistency across diverse channels. His background includes roles at Google, Williams-Sonoma, and over 15 years…

Margot Heron (she/her) is the Communications Specialist for the Center for Dissemination & Implementation At Stanford (C-DIAS). With a BA from Occidental College, she possesses a strong foundation in communications and a deep commitment to impactful messaging. Margot aims to bridge the gap between complex research and public understanding, fostering greater engagement with implementation science.

Dr. Gracelyn Cruden is a Research Scientist at Chestnut Health Systems’ Lighthouse Institute-Oregon Group. Her research leverages systems science, decision science, and implementation science to develop tools, processes, and partnerships to implement evidence-informed programs and policies. She collaborates with both state and county-level policymakers, including through a NIMH career development award (K01MH128761) that engages states…

Alice Zhang, MD, MPH is a family medicine physician and tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine. She has a passion for health equity focused, community-based research in addiction medicine. Her clinical experience in treating substance use disorder within primary care settings has motivated…

Orrin D. Ware, PhD, MPH, MSW is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. Dr. Ware has formal graduate and postdoctoral training in behavioral pharmacology, field epidemiology, public health, and social work. He has real-world experience (1) as a clinical social worker in a specialized crisis…

Milan F. Satcher, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and a Health Equity Faculty Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth College. In addition, she is a LEAD scholar at University of California, San Francisco. She is a board-certified family…

Noa Krawczyk, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Associate Director of the NYU Langone Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy. Her research focuses on studying ways to address barriers to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder at the individual, program, and policy…

Howard Kim, MD, MS is an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Denver Health followed by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality T32 postdoctoral fellowship in health services and outcomes research and K12 career development award in patient-centered intervention…

Allyson “Ally” Dir, PhD, HSPP is an Assistant Professor and licensed clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Dir maintains both an active clinical practice providing care to adults and adolescents with substance use disorders and a productive program of research. Her research is broadly focused on leveraging…