Meet the Team
Candice Johnson, PhD
Dr. Johnson is an epidemiologist who studies how workplace exposures and workplace policies affect workers’ health. She worked at CDC from 2008 to 2025 as an EIS Officer, Title 42 fellow, IPA, PhD student researcher, and guest researcher at NIOSH, NCBDDD, and NCEH. She also worked on the Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19 responses. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Michigan State University.
A. Emiko Blalock, PhD
Dr. Blalock is an education researcher and social scientist who primarily studies women’s experiences in work and academic medicine and work-life balance. She has experience in a variety of qualitative methodologies with particular expertise in longitudinal qualitative research, relationship centered focus groups, and narrative and historical interviews.
Kipling Bohnert, PhD
Dr. Bohnert is an epidemiologist who studies mental health and substance use. His research seeks to better understand the causes and consequences of substance use, substance use disorder, and other mental health conditions, as well as help identify and address gaps in care for individuals with such conditions. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Michigan State University.
Laurel Harduar Morano, PhD, MPH
Dr. Harduar Morano is an epidemiologist who studies work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. She worked at the CDC as a research assistant from 2001 to 2002 and then again from 2017 to 2023 as an EIS officer at NIOSH and then as a CEFO with DSLR. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Michigan State University.