About Us

Rich Jones, ScD

is an an investigator in the area of mental health and aging, with a specific focus on the epidemiology of cognitive aging, cognitive reserve, and environmental influences on cognitive function. Cognitive reserve is a hypothesis proposing that personal experiences and characteristics (e.g., educational attainment) provide a buffer against the clinical effects of underlying disease. Rich is epidemiologist and methodologist. He trained in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of Mental Hygiene. 

Zachary Kunicki, PhD, MS, MPH 

is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and serves as the assistant director of the Quantitative Science Program. His research focuses on the factors that alter trajectories of cognitive aging, with particular interests in delirium, depression, and dementia. His background is mainly in quantitative methods, specializing in psychometrics and longitudinal data analysis.

Gemma Wallace, PhD 

is an Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a faculty member in the Quantitative Sciences Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is also a licensed psychologist and a Research Psychologist at Butler Hospital. Dr. Wallace’s research focuses on risk and resiliency for suicidal thoughts and behaviors, substance misuse, and commonly co-occurring concerns such as emotion dysregulation. Her work employs longitudinal and multivariate models to examine how risk for behavioral health concerns unfolds over time.

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