Meet the COVIDsmart Team
We're a multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians, engineers, designers, advocates, and volunteers like you, united by our desire to accelerate health innovation.
Thank you for your participation. The study is now closed.
Our Partners
Principal Investigators

Director, HADSI, Eastern Virginia Medical School Principal Investigator
Dr. Sunita Dodani is the Founding Director of the Healthcare Analytics and Delivery Science Institute (HADSI) and the Principal Investigator of the COVIDsmart study. Dr. Dodani is a physician and epidemiologist with expertise in health disparities research. She has also been named to the Federation of American Scientists COVID-19 Rapid Response Task Force as an expert in analytics, big data, and technology.

Founder and CEO, Vibrent Health Co-Principal Investigator
Praduman Jain, known to colleagues as “PJ,” is CEO and Founder of Vibrent Health and the Principal Investigator of the Participant Technology Systems Center of the National Institutes of Health Precision Medicine Initiative, the All of Us Research Program. PJ is a Co-Principal Investigator on COVIDsmart along with Dr. Dodani and Dr. Roess.

Professor and Epidemiologist, George Mason University
Dr. Roess is a professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at George Mason University's College of Health and Human Services, Department of Global and Community Health. She is an epidemiologist with expertise in infectious diseases epidemiology, multi-disciplinary and multi-species field research, and evaluating interventions to reduce the transmission and impact of infectious diseases. Dr. Roess is a Co-Principal Investigator on COVIDsmart along with Dr. Dodani and PJ.
EVMS-Sentara
Healthcare Analytics and Delivery Science Institute
Sarah DePerrior, MPH
Clinical Data Specialist, HADSI
Angela Toepp, MS, PhD
Health Services Researcher, HADSI
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, EVMS
Vibrent Health
Dave Klein
Chief Product Officer, Vibrent Health
Josh Schilling
Director of Health Solutions, Vibrent Health
Alison Yun
Project Manager, Vibrent Health
Pearson Brown
Director of Communications, Vibrent Health
Isabel Rich
Design manager, Vibrent Health
Sia Kang
Visual Designer, Vibrent Health
George Mason University
Keith Renshaw, PhD
Professor & Chair, Department of Psychology, Mason
Rebecca Sutter, DNP, APRN, BC-FNP
Co-Director, Mason and Partners Clinic, Term Associate Professor of Nursing, Mason
Brian Levy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mason
Amy Adams
Executive Director, Institute for Biohealth Innovation, Mason
Katie Maney
Science Communications Officer, Institute for Biohealth Innovation, Mason