Leadership
Indiana University has a team of administrators, faculty and staff devoted to working with community partners throughout the state to address this public health issue.
Lead Investigator
Robin Newhouse, the lead investigator for IU's Grand Challenge: Responding to the Addictions Crisis, is the dean of the IU School of Nursing and an IU distinguished professor. Her research focuses on health system interventions to improve care processes and patient outcomes.
Email: newhouse@iu.edu
Phone: 317-274-1485
Staff
Lisa Fukuda
Lisa Fukuda, operations manager, manages and coordinates the administration and operations of the initiative and works with senior leadership to help facilitate discussions, analysis and decision-making as well as the implementation of the mission, goals, policies, priorities and programs of the Grand Challenge.
Email: ldfukuda@iu.edu
Phone: 812-855-0844
Susan McIlwain
Susan McIlwain, addictions specialist and family nurse practitioner, provides technical expertise on addictions to the Grand Challenge and researchers, plays a role in reviewing requests related to the expansion of scope on projects and assists with assessing opportunities for future funding.
Email: smcilwai@iu.edu
April Toler
April Toler, senior associate director of communications, works to promote the work of the Grand Challenge and addictions work at IU through internal and external media outlets and provides communications support to researchers.
Email: artoler@iu.edu
Phone: 812-855-3851
Sarah Mosier
Sarah Mosier, research program coordinator, oversees and coordinates all programmatic aspects of the Grand Challenge and serves as the point of contact for applicants and project teams regarding the funding application, review, award, implementation and reporting processes.
Email: semosier@iu.edu
Phone: 812-855-7079
Ana Velasco
Ana Velasco, project specialist, coordinates scheduling, administrative and logistical matters related to the Grand Challenge and assists with the management of projects for the Office of the Vice President for Research, as well as the Grand Challenge.
Email: amvelasc@iu.edu
Phone: 812-855-4782
Steering Committee
David Allison
Allison is dean, distinguished professor and provost professor at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
Paul Halverson
Halverson is a professor and founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.
William Hetrick
Hetrick is a professor and department chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Thomas McAllister
McAllister is Albert Eugene Sterne professor and chairman of the IU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry.
Michael Patchner
Patchner is professor and dean emeritus at the IU School of Social Work.
Kosali Simon
Simon is a Herman B Wells Endowed Professor at the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and associate vice provost for health sciences.
Janice Blum
Blum (ex officio) is interim vice chancellor for research and graduate education at IUPUI, interim associate vice president for research, and Chancellor’s Professor of microbiology and immunology in the IU School of Medicine.
Jeff Zaleski
Zaleski (ex officio) is Interim vice provost for research at IU Bloomington, interim associate vice president for research, and Provost Professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.