SPHHS Faculty Named 2025-26 ADVANCE Faculty Fellows
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Four SPHHS faculty members – Elizabeth Evans (Community Health Education), Chaoran Ma (Nutrition), Sarah Roelker (Kinesiology), and Jasleen Singh (Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences) – are among the nearly 40 UMass Amherst faculty selected to the 2025-2026 cohort of ADVANCE Faculty Fellows.
The fellows, each representing different departments, will partner with UMass ADVANCE to promote gender and racial equity for faculty at UMass. Through a combination of research, programming, and practices, UMass ADVANCE seeks to understand systemic and intersectional inequalities at UMass Amherst and to lay the groundwork for a fairer, more equitable, diverse and inclusive campus.
Faculty Fellows provide recommendations and feedback to the team about ADVANCE programming and liaise with their departments to promote the ADVANCE program. They also inform ADVANCE about successful equity and inclusion initiatives in their units.
Read here more information and a complete list of 2025-2026 Faculty Fellows.
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Elizabeth Evans
Associate Chair, Department of Health Promotion and Policy
Focus on opioids and other substances of abuse; women’s health; life course; social determinants; health services utilization and outcomes.
Chaoran Ma
Focus on nutritional epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; genetic and tissue-based biomarkers; multi-omics data; neurodegeneration
Sarah Roelker
Focus on gait biomechanics; neuromuscular control; dynamic balance; musculoskeletal modeling; locomotor rehabilitation
Jasleen Singh
Focus on hearing healthcare accessibility and affordability
