Dr. Lori Ann Post is the Buehler Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University. She is the inaugural Director for the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics. She serves as the principal investigator on this project. She is an independently-funded investigator working in injury control science, including intentional injury such as mass shootings, gender-based violence and unintentional injury due to opioid overdoses. Currently, her work on food security and policy has pivoted towards COVID-19 surveillance. As Director of the Buehler Center, she leads 93 faculty members and multiple postdocs that hail from several schools and colleges, including Law, Policy, Medicine, Public Health, Social Sciences and Business. She has served as PI on multiple federal, state and foundation grants. She is lead or senior author on more than a hundred publications. She brings research design, multi-methods, statistical, and mathematical modeling to the research table. She is expert in measurement and mixed methodological studies. She has significant experience leading multidisciplinary research teams on complex clinical outcomes and translational studies. The CDC has funded her, both Medicaid and Medicare (CMS), Department of Justice and its sub-agencies, Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, US Aid for International Development, USDA-International, USDA, Department of Education, and she has been awarded grants from state government agencies and multiple foundations such as the Davee Innovations Research Endowment Grant, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Skillman Foundation, Mott Foundation, and the Kellogg Foundation. Her work on the opioid crisis spans from patterns, hotspots, and spatial heterogeneity of opioid overdose deaths; economic drivers of the opioid epidemic and the social construction of addiction. At a global level, she works on food insecurity and an aging initiative with Northwestern partner universities. She is a frequent speaker at the United Nations Human Rights Council.