Leadership

•Co-director, SPH Analytic Center, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, 2022-Present

• Head, Behavioral Sciences on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Smart Devices, and Social Media(BASS) Lab, 2022-Present

•Co-Conveners and founder, International Comparisons of Healthy Aging (ICoHA) Interest Group(IG), The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), 2020-Present

•Data & Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), Asthma Empowerment Collaboration to Reduce Childhood Asthma Disparities program, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)/ National Institutes of Health(NIH), 2020-Present

•Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute(NHGRI)/ |National Institutes of Health(NIH), 2020-Present

• Lead Evaluator, On-Site Reaffirmation Committee for The University of Tennessee Health Science Center(UTHSC), Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges(SACSCOC), 2020

•Chair, Ethics Committee, Society for Public Health Education, 2018-2019

•Chair, Genomics forum, American Public Health Association, 2018-2019

•Co-Chair, Genomics forum, American Public Health Association, 2017-2018

•Co-Chair, Ethics Committee, Society for Public Health Education, 2009-2017

•Invited/Organized Session Chairs, ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2014.

•Evaluator, Scientific Session for Continued Education (CE) Credit-CHES/MCHES, American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, 2010-Present

•Workshop organizer, Ethics session: Promoting Ethics for the Health Education Profession, Society for Public Health Education 60th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2009

• Chair, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, 2023-Present

•Chair, Curriculum Committee, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, 2019-2020

•Director, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (TUSPHTM) Alumni Association Board of Directors, 2019-Present

•Chair, Nomination Committee, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (TUSPHTM) Alumni Association Board of Directors, 2021-Present 

Associate Editor, Preventing Chronic Disease(PCD), 2016-2018, 2019-2021, 2022-2025

Associate Editor, Frontiers of Public Health, 2019-2024

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Oncology, 2022-2026

Associate Editor-in-Chief, Translational Cancer Research (TCR), 2019-2024

Associate Editor, Health Behavior and Policy Review, 2013-2017.

Associate Editor, The International Journal of Science in Society, 2011

Guest Editor, Special issue: From Data to Action: National, State and Local Efforts to End Commercial Menthol and Other Flavored Tobacco Product Use. Preventing Chronic Disease, 2023-2024

Guest Editor, Special issue: Nutrition and Diet on the Prevention and Management of Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases, Nutrients. 2022-2024

Guest Editor, Special issue: The Interplay Between Social Determinants of Health and Cancer Related Health Disparities, Frontiers of Public Health, 2020-2021.

Guest Editor, Special issue: Active and Passive Smoking and Risk Factors, Medicina, 2019-2020.

Guest Editor, Special issue: Global health promotion, Preventing Chronic Disease, 2019-2020.

Guest Editor, Translational Cancer Research, 2015-2016, 2018-2019

Editorial Board, World Journal of Diabetes, 2021-2024.

Editorial Board, Translational Cancer Research (TCR), 2016-Present

Editorial Board, Reports On Global Health Research, 2018-Present