Cathy Bledsoe has a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health. She has worked with cancer registries since 2011, first with the Colorado Central Cancer Registry and later as a contractor with the Cancer Surveillance Branch at CDC. In 2017, she co-founded One Health Insights, a consulting company focused on helping public health and environmental organizations use their data effectively. 

Amanda Kahl is an epidemiologist and researcher at the Iowa Cancer Registry. who has conducted studies of data quality and completeness of cancer registry data, assessed the quality of data linkages with registry data, and examined the associations between viral infections and cancer in Iowa. She is also the Assistant Director of Catchment Area Data for Community Outreach and Engagement at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa.