Meet the Team
Our work is made possible through meaningful collaborations with community partners, families, healthcare institutions, researchers, funders, and leaders who bring specialized expertise in sleep health, prevention, and community-based action. Rooted in Central Ohio and strengthened by a growing national network, these partnerships bring together diverse perspectives, resources, and expertise to address the conditions that shape healthy sleep. By building lasting relationships and working toward shared goals, we aim to translate evidence into action, strengthen communities, and create environments where every child and family has the opportunity to rest, thrive, and flourish.
The SLEEP Friendly Cities team is made up of researchers, healthcare professionals, community partners, educators, students, organizational leaders and other collaborators who work together to advance population sleep health and support the communities participating in our work.
Our research and program staff are often the primary people participants and community partners will meet during SLEEP Friendly Cities activities. They help coordinate research participation, community listening sessions, workshops, educational programs, surveys, follow-up activities and other opportunities to get involved. They answer questions, support participants and partners and help make sure activities are welcoming, organized, and conducted according to research and institutional requirements.
Our team also does much of the work behind the scenes. This includes coordinating partnerships, managing research and evaluation activities, developing educational resources, supporting data collection and analysis, preparing community reports, organizing events and trainings and making sure the tools and systems used across SLEEP Friendly Cities are working properly.
Improving population sleep health requires collaboration across institutions, organizations, communities and sectors.
Working Together for Healthier Sleep Communities
Every partner brings something different to the table. Together, we can better understand the conditions that shape sleep, identify opportunities for change and develop solutions that communities can use and sustain.
SLEEP Friendly Cities works with partners who bring different forms of knowledge, expertise, resources and community connection to the initiative. Partnerships include academic institutions, healthcare systems, schools, workplaces, congregations, arts and cultural organizations, public health agencies, community organizations and other groups committed to improving health and well-being.
Meet the people and organizations working together to build communities where healthy sleep is possible.
