Ashley Winning joined EMPath in 2016 after a decade conducting both qualitative and quantitative research in social and behavioral sciences. At EMPath, she is responsible for strategic planning, program development and evaluation, research design and implementation, conference planning, and staff supervision and mentoring. Before coming to EMPath, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), where she engaged in a National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) study on the causal links between posttraumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular disease in women. She earned her ScD in the Social and Behavioral Sciences with a major in Social Epidemiology and Psychiatric Epidemiology at HSPH, and her Master of Public Health (MPH) from Emory University.