Dr. Nieto completed his MD degree and a residency in Family and Community Medicine in Spain. His graduate training includes an MPH degree from University of Havana, Cuba, as well as a Master in Health Science (MHS) and a PhD degree in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University. From 1991 to 2001 he was a faculty member of the Department of Epidemiology in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Between 1993 and 2001, he served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Epidemiology. In 2002 he joined the University of Wisconsin to become Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Public Health, and the inaugural Helfaer Professor of Public Health. Dr. Petersen is a professor of public health at the University of South Florida. She earned her masters and doctoral degrees in maternal and child health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She has held faculty and senior leadership positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and served as Director of the Division of Family Health at the Minnesota Department of Health.Dr. Petersen is the author of numerous publications, book chapters and a textbook on needs assessment in public health. She is a frequent lecturer on topics related to educational innovation in public health, maternal and child health, health care reform, and systems change and leadership, and has provided extensive technical assistance and training to over 25 state health departments in the areas of needs assessment, data system development, systems level accountability and the development of population-based indicators. She has served on numerous boards, commissions and task forces and is Editor Emerita of the Maternal and Child Health Journal, founding member and past president of the National Board of Public Health Examiners, immediate-past Chair of the Council on Education for Public Health, and Chair of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

• ForewordRoland Thorpe Jr. 1. Components of normal human sleepDayna A. Johnson and Charles A Czeisler 2. Sleep in human and cultural evolutionChighaf Bakour, F. Javier Nieto, and Donna Petersen 3. Measuring sleep healthMeredith L. Wallace, Martica H. Hall, and Daniel J. Buysse 4. Genetic and biological factors in sleepNicholas Gentry, Louis Ptacek, and Ying-Hui Fu 5. Psychosocial dimensions of sleep healthMariana Szklo-Coxe, Kendall A. Leser, and Margaret M. Lubas 6. Associations between sleep, diet, and exercise: implications for health and well-beingKristen L. Knutson 7. Sleep health in children and adolescentsTanvi Mukundan, Irina Trosman, Innessa Donskoy, and Stephen H. Sheldon 8. The family’s role in sleep healthOrfeu Marcello Buxton, Elizabeth Adams, Liu Bai and Douglas Michael Teti 9. Sleep health and aging Tamar Shochat 10. Determinants and health consequences of modifiable sleep health disparitiesChandra L. Jackson 11. Bedroom environment and sleep healthNatalie D. Dautovich, Joseph M. Dzierzewski, and Ashley MacPherson 12. Built environment and sleep healthGuido Simonelli and Lauren Hale 13. The healthcare environment: a medical and a public health challengeMeghan N. Buran and Jonathan M. Samet 14. The policy environmentThomas A. Birkland