MERUERT RAKHIMOVA is a 2^nd year graduate student at GSPH, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Health Service Administration, division of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences . She has her MD from Kazakh State Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan (1999). She also worked at the Department of Pharmacology at the same university in Kazakhstan (1999-2000).

FAINA LINKOV is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. She currently works with Dr. Ronald LaPorte in the Supercourse project. She got her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1999.

KANAT SHAKENOV is a 2^nd year graduate student at GSPH, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Health Service Administration, division of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences. He graduated from Kazakh State Medical University in 1999 with the degree in dentistry.