The Scientific Leadership Council (SLC), formerly the Scientific Advisory Council, deliberates and provides consensus recommendations on matters of scientific research and evidence that hold bearing over national and local policy, research development, and program implementation and development.
1. Share relevant research, tools and active interventions developing in the field, with the Foundation and its partners. On a case-by-case basis, they will assess research, tools, and active interventions.
2. Provide scientific recommendations on key initiatives and policy priorities including the advocacy goals of the Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness.
3. Highlight areas of need and opportunities for future research and intervention development.
Note: Key initiatives to be directed by the insights of the SLC will be reviewed by a separate ethics panel and a conflict of interest policy will be developed in concordance with existing federal statute, rules and regulations.
SLC Chair, F4SC Board Member, and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University
SLC Vice Chair and Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Principal Research Scientist, NORC at The University of Chicago
UX Researcher, Meta
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco
Professor, Texas A&M University
Research Associate Professor, University of Oregon
Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco
Statistician, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers For Disease Control
Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Psychiatry, Columbia University
Gravity Project
Serving as official subject matter experts on the social isolation and loneliness portfolio under the of the HL7 Gravity Project.
Commit to Connect
Evaluating interventions to be included under the Administration for Community Living’s Commit to Connect program.
Surgeon General’s Advisory
We would like to acknowledge and thank Foundation for Social Connection Scientific Chair, Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, who served as Lead Scientific Editor of the Advisory, and to our Scientific Council members and staff who contributed as Advisory reviewers for the Office of the Surgeon General.
For more information on how to get involved in the work of the SLC, please reach out to our team below.