Marie E. Heffernan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Director of the Voices of Child Health in Communities, and the Scientific Director for Quantitative Science at the Smith Child Health Catalyst at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She oversees the Voices of Child Health in Communities Parent Panel Survey, a biannual survey that assesses parent and family perspectives on issues related to child, adolescent, and family health and well-being. Topics covered in the survey range from bullying and cyberbullying, youth mental health during the pandemic, to safety practices around e-scooter and e-bike use. Some of Dr. Heffernan’s recent research projects have focused on natural disasters, eco-anxiety, and connections to child and adolescent health. She also has examined how closely associated parents’ reports of their adolescent child’s mental health are with their adolescents’ self-report of their own mental health. Dr. Heffernan serves on the Evaluation Core and the Climate Task Force for the Pediatric Pandemic Network (PPN/HRSA), and on the Metrics Working Group for West Side United, a collaboration among healthcare, non-profit, and government partners to address health inequity on Chicago’s West Side. She also has received funding for her work through Family Well-Being Research Network (FAMNet/NIH), CDC, PCORI, and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. She has a doctorate in social/personality psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus on survey methods, personality development, and relationship science.