Emily Lauer, MPH is an Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School, Director of the Center for Developmental Disabilities Evaluation and Research, and Associate Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center’s University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. Emily specializes in health services research and the implementation of programs to improve the quality of human services and health-related outcomes for people with disabilities. Emily received her Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Boston University, and her Master’s of Public Health in Biostatistics from Rutgers University where she received the Stuart D. Cook award for her research. She is a PhD graduand in Medical Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she is an Alpha Kappa Delta and Golden Key honoree. She has published and presented her work nationally and internationally.