KID RISK - Key Persons


Dennis M. Bier

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board

Dominika Kalkowska

Dominika is a mathematician with a background in financial and actuarial mathematics (undergraduate studies), as well as in risk and environmental modeling (master's degree). Currently, she focuses on using integrated modeling to help inform global public health policies, and the management of undetected circulation of polioviruses in high-risk areas and the implications for surveillance. Career Highlights Kid Risk, Inc.

Fumie Griego

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board

Kamran Badizadegan - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President
Kamran joined Kid Risk in 2019 after a 25-year career in academic pathology, most recently as Professor and Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Kamran's current research is focused on analytical tools and methods in healthcare, including diagnostic medicine and public health.

Karen G. Tepichin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary

Kimberly M. Thompson - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President
A world leader in risk analysis and decision science, health policy, global health, and system dynamics, Kim created the Kids Risk Project at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2000, which she directed until 2009. She founded Kid Risk, Inc. as a non-profit organization in October 2008 to develop the field of pediatric risk analysis, empower children, parents, policy makers, and others to improve children's lives, inform decisions related to the management of children's risks, and promote children's health and well-being.

Michele Courton Brown - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer

Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Vice President

Rick Hackman

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board

Walter R. Dowdle

Job Titles:
  • Director