Dr. Roseann Peterson is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University (SUNY Downstate) and is a psychiatric statistical geneticist versed in population-scale genetic studies including the analysis of admixed and trans-ancestry studies applied to genome-wide association studies, polygenic risk profiling, and fine-mapping analyses. She also holds expertise in genetic epidemiology, such as the analysis of twin and family studies, structural equation modeling, and Mendelian randomization. Dr. Peterson serves in several leadership roles and is the Director of the Population Genetics and Environment in Major Depression (POP-GEM) Lab, Chair of the PsycheMERGE Diversity Initiative, Co-Chair of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Cross-Population Working Group, and Associate Director of Statistical Genetics in the Institute for Genomics in Health (IGC) at SUNY Downstate. She also has a special interest in ethics in research and policy and serves on the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access committee of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics and is the Director of Education in Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity in the Office of the Senior Vice President of Research at SUNY Downstate.