MEET OUR TEAM
HAILEE DUNN, PHD, MPH
Founder
Hailee is a community research and evaluation consultant and Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Practice in Epidemiology at Brown University's School of Public Health. Hailee has been working in public health since 2007. Since beginning her career in public health, she earned a Master of Public Health at Brown University and a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Rhode Island. Her interests and approach to evaluation and community research are largely influenced by her clinical training and experiences in different hospital and community-based settings. She works in the service of projects that focus on getting children, adolescents, and adults fair access to mental health and related services - whether through the school system, community-based health centers, hospitals, or other settings. She is especially interested in collecting and using data to help organizations figure out what needs to change (root causes) in current systems, institutions, policies, or practices so that those who need services most are able to get them.
KRISTIN GRIMONE, BA
Project Coordinator
Kristin has been working in research since 2012. Prior to joining HDC in 2020, she worked as a coordinator for clinical research trials at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island and The Ohio State University. Kristin brings with her extensive experience in recruiting and interviewing participants from diverse backgrounds, developing data collection protocols and standard operating procedures for maintaining confidentiality and integrity of data, assisting with Institutional Review Board submissions, and managing day-to-day operations.
IAN SCHMID, PHD, ScM
Applied Statistician
Ian has been working at the interface of statistics and public mental health research since 2012. His primary research interest is in evaluating programs and policies that are intended to improve behavioral health outcomes. He received a Master's degree in Biostatistics from Brown University in 2016 and a doctoral degree in Public Mental Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2023.
JOYCE SUNDAY, MSc.
Evaluation Associate
Joyce has been working in research since 2018. Prior to joining HDC she earned a Master of Science in Biomedical Biotechnology and Engineering at Brown University. She is currently earning a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at Brown University. While earning her MPH at Brown, she was a 2023 awardee of the Nora Kahn Piore Award. Previously, Joyce was a part-time Clinical Project Coordinator/Manager for a CDC-funded study on COVID-19 vaccine immunity among geriatric populations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Joyce was an Epidemiologist for the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) COVID-19 Response Team, where she analyzed the data on COVID-19 cases and vaccination trends for the state of Rhode Island. Also, Joyce was a Clinical Research Assistant/Research Coordinator at Women and Infants Hospital. Joyce brings with her extensive experience in data analysis, research design, data coordination, regulatory compliance, research evaluation, and proficiency in various statistical software, such as R, SAS, Stata, Salesforce, Tableau, PowerBI, and Excel.
DEBORAH PEARLMAN, PHD
Consultant
Dr. Pearlman is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Epidemiology at Brown University's School of Public Health and a part-time consultant at HDC. Dr. Pearlman earned her Ph.D. in Health Policy at Brandeis University with a concentration in quantitative research methods and program evaluation. Her applied public health research is guided by four core principles: (1) equity, (2) effectiveness, (3) sustainability, and (4) community engagement. The breadth of her work reflects a long-standing commitment to understand how the social ecology of a community has a profound effect on a wide range of health outcomes across the lifespan. Dr. Pearlman has extensive applied research experience in the ways in which gender-based inequity, discrimination, and gender-based violence intersect to undermine the health of girls and women.