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Roger Shapiro, MD | BIDH, Botswana global health program | HIV/ AIDS, Pregnancy, Maternal health, Fetal infections; Infectious disease, pregnancy complications, HIV, Womens health, HIV exposed infants. | Dr. Shapiro is an Associate Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. His primary research interests are in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) and the reduction of morbidity and mortality among infants born to HIV-infected women. Since 1999, Dr. Shapiro has studied infant outcomes and peripartum PMTCT strategies among 1200 mothers and infants in the Mashi Study in Botswana. He is the principal investigator of the Mma Bana Study, which is evaluating virologic efficacy and HIV transmission rates among 730 women receiving 3 different antiretroviral combinations during pregnancy, delivery, and breastfeeding. In 2010-2011, Dr. Shapiro will be initiating a new NIH-funded clinical trial to reduce infant mortality among HIV-exposed infants. | |
Todd Pollack | BIDMC, HMS | technology, AIDS, Vietnam, Infectious disease, HIV Care, CDC, Global health managment, BIDMC, HIV, | Dr. Pollack is the Country Medical Director of the Harvard Medical School AIDS Initiative in Vietnam (HAIVN), providing in-country management to the HAIVN project offices in Hanoi and HCMC. He also holds a joint faculty position in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care and the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Pollack graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and completed his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at BIDMC. He also spent a year as Chief Medical Resident in the Department of Medicine at BIDMC. Since 2009, when he joined HAIVN, Dr. Pollack has been based full-time in Hanoi providing training and clinical mentoring in HIV care and treatment to Vietnamese clinicians. He provides technical assistance to the Vietnam Ministry of Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other partner agencies and is an active member of the Technical Working Groups on HIV care and treatment, Viral Hepatitis, and the National HIV Quality Improvement program. | |
Elisabeth Riviello | BIDMC, HMS | Acute respiratory failure, Critical care in global health, ARDS, Sepsis, Mortality, epidemiology, critical care curriculum, global health. | Dr. Elisabeth D. Riviello is a pulmonologist in Boston, Massachusetts and is affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received her medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years. Passionate about improving critical care for patients in resource constrained settings. Her research is focused on ARDS, sepsis, and mortality prediction in low income countries. She has a particular interest in examining how context impacts critical care epidemiology, interventions and outcomes. Her medical education activities include critical care curriculum development for resource constrained settings as well as mentorship of US trainees interested in pursuing global health careers. | |
Donald Goldmann | Boston Children's Hospital, HSPH, HMS | hospital-acquired infections, hand hygiene, antimicrobial, quality measurement, improvement, clinical practice, parent perceptions, patient saftey, | Dr. Donald Goldmann is a Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and a Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, | |
Shahin Lockman | BWH, HSPH | Immunology and Infectious Diseases | Dr. Shahin Lockman is an Associate Professor in in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the T. H. Chan School of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Infectious Diseases |
Lisa A. Cosimi, MD | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine | Dr. Lisa Cosimi is and Associate Physician at BWH specializing in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine. She is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Infectious Diseases |
Augusto E. Caballero-Robles | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension | Dr. Augusto E. Caballero-Robles, MD specializes in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension at BWH. Dr. Caballero is the Faculty Director of Diabetes Education at HMS and the Faculty Director of International Innovation Programs for the HMS Office of External Education. Previously, he was the Director of Latino Diabetes Initiative at the Joslin Diabetes Center. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, Joslin Diabetes Center |
Ranu Dhillon | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Primary Care Accessibility, Global Health Equity, Policy Reform, National Health System Performances, Rural Medicine, Maternal Child healthcare | Dr. Dhillon works in BWH's Division of Global Health Equity, and is a Senior Health Advisor with the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He has collaborated extensively in the field of primary care accessibility and improvement to national healthcare systems, in countries including Rwanda, India, China, Liberia, Ethiopia and Kenya. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Primary Care Accessibility, Global Health Equity, Policy Reform, National Health System Performances, Rural Medicine, Maternal Child healthcare, Rwanda, India, China, Liberia, Ethiopia, Kenya. |
Morgan Chessia Esperance | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Global Health Equity, Internal Medicine | Dr. Morgan Chessia Esperance is a part-time Instructor in Medicine at BWH specializing in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine. She has published work on HIV and antiretroviral therapy interventions in Haiti. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Global Health Equity, Internal Medicine |
Temidayo Fadelu | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Medical Oncology, Breast Cancer, Global Health Services, Outcome Disparities, Palliative Care | Temidayo Fadelu MD is a medical oncologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and instructor at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses are in breast cancer and global health accessibility. He has worked internationally in Haiti and Rwanda studying disease pattern and health outcome disparities, and has assisted in implementing interventional programming. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Medical Oncology, Breast Cancer, Global Health Services, Outcome Disparities, Palliative Care |
Hugo Flores Navarro | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Primary care, Non-profit, Mental health, Women’s health, Chronic disease, Surgery | Hugo Flores Navarro is the co-founder and former executive director of the Mexican branch of the non-profit Partners In Health. He has worked with academic institutions in Mexico and the US, as well as the Mexican government to implement accessible health programs. He is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and works as an associate physician at BWH. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Primary care, Non-profit, Mental health, Women’s health, Chronic disease, Surgery, Accessibility |
Matthew Gartland | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Asylum medicine, Pediatric HIV, Pediatric Immigrant Health | Dr. Gartland is the founder and director of the MGH Asylum Clinic at the MGH Center and is an instructor at Harvard Medical School. He has also worked globally on projects related to pediatric HIV and primary care in Mexico, Kenya, Zambia, and Liberia. Dr. Gartland works at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as an adult hospitalist, and as a pediatric hospitalist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Asylum medicine, Pediatric HIV, Pediatric Immigrant Health |
Lisa Gruenberg | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Education | Dr. Lisa Gruenberg is an Ob Gyn, medical educator and writer affiliated with the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital and with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Denver. She has volunteered globally in Liberia, Bangladesh, South Africa, Rwanda, and Mexico. She is currently a volunteer physician through the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Metrowest Free Medical Program, and the University of Colorado-Anschutz. She runs education and writing workshops at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She has lectured on the ethics of short-term international service. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Education, Global Health Equity |
Neil Gupta | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Hepatitis C, Policy Reform, Advocacy, Global Health Equity, Healthcare Accessibility | Neil Gupta MD researches treatment outcomes for chronic Hepatitis C patients in Rwanda and increasing treatment accessibility. His work has spanned Rwanda as well as several countries through sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. His is an associate physician at BWH and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Hepatitis C, Policy Reform, Advocacy, Global Health Equity, Healthcare Accessibility |
Chuan-Chin Huang | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Biostatistics | Chuan-Chin Huang, Sc.D is an Instructor in Medicine at HMS and biostatistician in the Department of Anethesia at BWH. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Biostatistics |
Jonathan Iralu | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Infectious Diseases | Dr. Jonathan Iralu is a physician and Instructor at BWH. He also serves as the Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Infectious Diseases |
Tahir Haque | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Ariadne Labs | Medical Innovation, Health Disparities, Global Health | Dr. Tahir Haque is a Hospitalist at BWH and Instructor in Medicine at HMS. He also focuses on creating sustainable community development projects and improving access to care in rural areas across the globe. His research work focuses on racial and gender health disparities as well as cardiac outcomes in patients with viral illnesses such as HIV and Zika. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Medical Innovation, Health Disparities, Global Health |
Ravi Kavasery | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Ariadne Labs | Population Health, Primary Care Delivery, Health System Improvement, Patient Safety | Ravi Kavasery, MD, is Medical Director of Quality and Population Health for AltaMed Health Services — the largest federally qualified health center in the United States, serving the communities of Los Angeles. Dr. Kavasery is an associate faculty member with the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as well as an associate faculty member with Ariadne Labs. During his clinical training, Dr. Kavasery has worked with Partners in Health in Rwanda and Malawi. He has also done clinical work in Uganda, the Navajo Nation, South Korea, Malaysia, and Argentina. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Population Health, Health System Improvement |
Sylvia Kehlenbrink Oh | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Diabetes management, Insulin Accessibility, Global Endocrinology, Humanitarian Crises | Sylvia Kehlenbrink MD works at BWH in Endocrinology, and has focused her research on diabetic care in low and middle income countries. She founded the Non-Communicable Diseases in Conflict Program, and works with the UNITED Consortium for unmet diabetic needs in humanitarian crises. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Diabetes management, Insulin Accessibility, Global Endocrinology, Humanitarian Crises, NCD in Conflict Program, UNITED Consortium |
Serena Koenig | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | HIV, TB, Clinical Research, Infectious Disease | Dr. Serena Koenig is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity and the Division of Infectious Diseases at BWH. Her research is focused on HIV and TB care, working in Haiti for over 15 years. She is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, HIV, TB, Clinical Research, Infectious Disease, GHESKIO. |
Fernet Leandre | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | HIV, AIDS, TB, Rural Medicine, Healthcare accessibility | Fernet Leandre MD is an HIV and TB specialist, and has assisted and directed programs related to prevention and treatment in Haiti. He continues to serve as a consultant to Partners In Health’s AIDS for projects in rural Rwanda, Malawi, and Lesotho, and is an instructor at Harvard Medical School. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, HIV, AIDS, TB, Rural Medicine, Healthcare accessibility |
Hema Magge | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, Low Income Healthcare Systems, Health Equity, Social Justice | Dr. Herma Magge is the Senior Program Officer on the Maternal, Newborn, and Child health team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She also holds positions at BWH Division of Global Health Equity, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Boston Children's Hospital, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, Low Income Healthcare Systems, Health Equity, Social Justice |
Aaron Mann | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Global Health Equity, Internal Medicine, General Medicine, Primary Care | Dr. Aaron Mann specializes in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Mann is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Global Health Equity, Internal Medicine, General Medicine, Primary Care |
Anatole Manzi | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Quality Management, Strengthening Healthcare Systems, COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Healthcare Accessibility | Dr. Anatole Manzi is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Quality and Health Systems Strengthening at Partners In Health. His work includes strengthening healthcare systems and quality care delivery practices. He is assistant professor at University of Global Health Equity and lecturer at Harvard Medical School. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Quality Management, Strengthening Healthcare Systems, COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Healthcare Accessibility, Global Health Equity, Partners In Health |
Regan Marsh | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Emergency Medicine, Ebola Epidemic, HIV, Maternal Child Health | Dr. Regan Marsh is an associate physician the Department of Emergency Medicine at BWH, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and has worked with PIH in Malawi, Haiti, Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Liberia. Her work has included improving health outcomes in HIV and maternal-child health and establishing the first Emergency Medicine Residency in the history of Haiti. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, PIH, Emergency Medicine, Ebola Epidemic, HIV, Maternal Child Health |
Marla McKnight | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Public Health, Social Equity | Dr. Marla McKnight is an Instructor in Medicine and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Affiliate at HMS. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Public Health, Social Equity |
Michelle Morse | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Global Health Equity, Activism, Global Medical Education, Social Medicine | Michelle Morse MD is a hospitalist at BWH and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, as well as the founding co-director of EqualHealth. She works to improve global medical education and human resources to health, as well as activism and addressing miseducation in global healthcare professionals. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, EqualHealth, Global Health Equity, Activism, Global Medical Education, Social Medicine |
Jean Claude Mugunga | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Health Economics, Population Health, Health Services Delivery, Global Health | Dr. Jean Claude Mugunga is a part-time Lecturer on Medicine at BWH, and the Associate Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality at Partners In Health, where he supports various PIH country sites and programs, assessing whether said programs are making a valuable and measurable impact. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Health Economics, Population Health, Health Services Delivery, Global Health |
Joia Mukherjee | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Infectious Disease, Global Health Delivery, Healthcare as a Human Right, Healthcare Accessibility in resource-poor areas | Dr. Mukherjee is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. In the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, she directs the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery program and the Program in Global Medical Education and Social Change. Dr. Mukherjee has helped to create new residency and fellowship training programs for Rwandan and Haitian physicians as well as global health residencies and fellowships for US trainees at Harvard and other American universities. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Infectious Disease, Global Health Delivery, Healthcare as a Human Right, Healthcare Accessibility in resource-poor areas |
Bisola Ojikutu | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | AIDS, HIV, Structural Factors, Infectious Diseases | Bisola Ojikutu MD MPH is an infectious disease physician who has dedicated her career to overcoming racial and ethnic inequity experienced by people living with or at risk for HIV. Dr. Ojikutu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Global and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician within the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also a faculty member within the Infectious Disease Divisions at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Her research explores the impact of structural factors and norms/beliefs (e.g. racism/discrimination, immigration, medical mistrust, homonegativity) on HIV transmission and use of biomedical HIV prevention. Dr. Ojikutu is the Director of the Community Engaged Research Program and the Associate Director of the Bio-Behavioral and Community Science Core within the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Ojikutu is co-editor of two comprehensive textbooks detailing the HIV epidemic with Black and Latinx communities. She is also a leader within the Massachusetts statewide Getting to Zero and Ending the HIV Epidemic Steering Committees. Internationally, Dr. Ojikutu has worked throughout sub Saharan Africa developing and evaluating models of care for people living with HIV. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, AIDS, HIV, Structural Factors, Infectious Diseases |
Daniel Palazuelos | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Internal Medicine, Strengthening Healthcare Systems, Diabetes, Hypertension | Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH, is an affiliate of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change, and holds positions at Harvard Medical School, the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and Partners In Health (PIH). His work has included assisting in the creation and launch of the new health care system strengthening PIH project in Mexico, Compañeros en Salud-Mexico. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Internal Medicine, Strengthening Healthcare Systems, Diabetes, Hypertension |
Rajesh Panjabi | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Global Health Accessibility, Health Equity, Remote Community Healthcare, National Community Health Workforce | Raj Panjabi is Co-Founder/CEO of Last Mile Health and Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Last Mile Health works to save lives in the world's most remote communities by partnering with governments to design, scale and advocate for national networks of community health professionals. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Last Mile Health, Global Health Accessibility, Health Equity, Remote Community Healthcare, National Community Health Workforce |
Paul Park | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Indian Health Service, Global Health Equity, Diabetes, Community Health | Paul H. Park, MD, MSc, is the Director of Implementation for NCD Synergies at Partners In Health and holds appointments in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Dr. Park previously worked at Partners In Health–Rwanda as the Community Health Implementation Specialist, and later as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Chronic Disease. Since 2016, he has practiced primary care medicine for Indian Health Service in Navajo Nation and, currently, the Mashpee Wampanoag Health Service Unit. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Indian Health Service, Global Health Equity, Diabetes, Community Health |
Michael Rich | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | TB, Maternal Fetal Care, Drug Resistant, Improving Health Outcomes | Michael Rich MD is an Associate Physician at BWH and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. His research has included extensive work with multi-drug resistant TB and maternal fetal outcomes in Rwanda. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, TB, Maternal Fetal Care, Drug Resistant, Improving Health Outcomes |
Ruma Rajbhandari | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Health System Strengthening, Maternal Child Health, Rural Healthcare, Hepatitis, Gastroenterology | Dr. Ruma Rajbhandari is an Associate Scientist in the Division of Global Health Equity and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical practice has included gastroenterology and hepatology, and serves as the Research Advisor for the Nick Simons Institute to improve rural healthcare in Nepal. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Health System Strengthening, Maternal Child Health, Rural Healthcare, Hepatitis, Gastroenterology, Nick Simons Institute |
Peter Rohloff | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Quality Improvement, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease, Food Insecurity | Peter Rohloff MD is an Associate Physician at BWH and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. They are the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer for Maya Health Alliance which works with rural indigenous Mayans in Guatemala. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Quality Improvement, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease, Food Insecurity, Maya Health Alliance |
Dan Schwarz | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Internal Medicine, Global Primary Care, Pediatrics | Dan Schwarz, MD, MPH is currently an Expert Lead for the Program in Global Primary Care, Associate Director for Primary Care at Ariadne Labs, and Chief Medical Officer for Possible. Dr. Schwarz serves on the leadership team of the Primary Healthcare Performance Initiative (PHCPI) in collaboration with the WHO, World Bank Group, Gates Foundation, and R4D. In his role for Possible, Dr. Schwarz has been engaged in over ten years’ worth of work in building a public-private partnership for high-quality primary care in remote areas of Nepal, in collaboration with the Nepali Ministry of Health. He is trained in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Internal Medicine, Global Primary Care, Pediatrics, Global Primary Care, Ariadne Labs, Possible, Nepali Ministry of Health, Boston Children's Hospital |
Ryan Schwarz | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Opioid Use Disorder, Global Health System Improvement, COVID-19, Healthcare Policy | Ryan Schwarz, MD is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Physician at MGH's Chelsea Health Center, and serves as the current Director of Policy for Accountable Care at MassHealth, as well as on the Massachusetts COVID-19 Response Command Center. He is the former COO of Possible and current senior technical advisor. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Opioid Use Disorder, Global Health System Improvement, COVID-19, Healthcare Policy, Possible, MassHealth, Chelsea Health Center |
Sara Selig | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Indian Health Service, Improvement of Healthcare Delivery, Health Equity, Social Justice, Global Health System Strengthening, Oncology, Primary Care | Sara Selig, MD, MPH is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Selig currently serves as the Associate Director for the Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) Program, the domestic affiliate of Partners in Health. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Indian Health Service, Improvement of Healthcare Delivery, Health Equity, Social Justice, Global Health System Strengthening, Oncology, Primary Care, Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) Program, Partners In Health, Indian Health Service |
Katherine Semrau | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Maternal Child Health, Epidemiology, Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission, Breast Diseases | Katherine Semrau, PhD, MPH, is director of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs. Her research has focused on prevention of maternal and child mortality, improvement of quality of care, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Maternal Child Health, Epidemiology, Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission, Breast Diseases, BetterBirth Program, Ariadne Labs |
KJ Seung | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Multi-Drug Resistant TB, Improved Treatment Availability, Oral Treatment Options for Multi-Drug Resistant TB | KJ Seung MD is an Associate Physician at BWH and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Their research has focused on multi-drug resistant TB, including improving treatment availability in North Korea, and the safety and efficacy of high dose oral medications. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Multi-Drug Resistant TB, Improved Treatment Availability, Oral Treatment Options for Multi-Drug Resistant TB |
Shela Sridhar | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Internal Medicine | Shela Sridhar, MD, MPH is an Attending Physician specializing in Hospital Medicine at Boston Children's and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. She is also an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and a Fogarty Fellow in the T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Global Health and Population. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Internal Medicine |
Stephanie Smith | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Psychiatry, Global Health, Social Medicine | Dr. Stephanie Smith is an Instructor in Psychiatry at BWH and a Research Fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Psychiatry, Global Health |
Dylan Tierney | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Infectious Disease, Global Health, Infectious Disease, Tuberculosis | Dr. Tierney specializes in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis (TB). He is a lead clinician in the TB clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His current research explores the implementation of high-quality TB care as a way of preventing transmission in hospitals with a high burden of TB. Dr. Tierney is also passionate about global and domestic health equity. He conducts operational research on strategies to decrease the barriers to care for patients of color and other marginalized populations at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Infectious Disease, Global Health, Infectious Disease, Tuberculosis |
Gustavo Velasquez | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Global Health, Infectious Disease, Tuberculosis, Internal Medicine | Dr. Velasquez is an Associate Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and an Associate Scientist in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is an Instructor in the Department of Medicine and a Research Associate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His main research interest is to develop safe, tolerable, and effective treatment regimens for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Global Health, Infectious Disease, Tuberculosis |
David Walton | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Internal Medicine, Cholera, Global Health | Dr. David Walton is an Instructor in Medicine at BWH. He has published work on responding to cholera in Haiti post-earthquake and lessons that can be learned. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Internal Medicine, Cholera, Global Health |
Norma Ware | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | HIV Treatment and Prevention | Norma C. Ware, PhD is a medical anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ware conducts research on social and behavioral dimensions of HIV treatment and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. She is particularly interested in the use of qualitative research on user experiences to explain the dynamics of interventions to improve delivery of health care. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, HIV Treatment and Prevention |
Courtney Yuen | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Global Health, Tuberculosis, Epidemiology | Courtney Yuen, PhD, is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate epidemiologist in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Prior to this, she worked in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Yuen has been involved in important research on the global epidemiology of childhood drug-resistant tuberculosis, contributing to estimates of the global burden of childhood multidrug-resistant and isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis and the risk of disease among children who live in the households of adults with drug-resistant tuberculosis. She has worked with tuberculosis programs in both the United States and international settings to help them effectively implement contact investigations and preventive therapy. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Epidemiology |
Emily Wroe | BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Health Systems Innovation, Chronic Disease, Community Health Workers | Dr. Emily Wroe is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Her academic interests center around implementation and evaluation of innovative health systems, specifically for chronic disease. Her work has evaluated a novel integrated HIV-NCD clinic in rural Malawi as well as several other operational research projects for chronic disease outcomes for HIV and NCD programs in Malawi. She also has research experience in Community Health Workers, serving as primary lead for a stepped wedge study of a CHW program in Malawi and other initiatives including development of a selection tool, launch of a digital health system, and novel approaches to community screening. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Health Systems Innovation, Chronic Disease, Community Health Workers |
Rebecca Weintraub | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Ariadne Labs | Internal Medicine, Healthcare Delivery | Dr. Weintraub is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Faculty member of Ariadne Labs leading the Better Evidence project. Rebecca practices internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has led the research and development of the Cases in Global Health Delivery, a collection of 40 case studies with Harvard Business Publishing, taught at over 500 schools of medicine, public health, and business. She leads the Global Health Delivery Intensive, a mid-career executive education program — now with alumni in 40+ countries. Her research on positive outliers in health care delivery has been funded by the National Institute for Health, the Global Fund, World Health Organization, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Rebecca was selected as by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader and is currently a Health Innovators Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Rebecca graduated from Yale University, Stanford School of Medicine, and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Ariadne Labs, Global Health Delivery Intensive, Internal Medicine, Healthcare Delivery |
Margaret Bourdeaux | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Berkman Klein Center | Health systems and institutions in conflict-affected states, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics | Margaret Bourdeaux, AB ’97, MD, MPH ’09, is the research director for the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change. Her research and fieldwork focus on health systems and institutions in conflict-affected states. She has worked with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Policy to analyze the US Department of Defense’s global health projects and programs. She led a joint Harvard-NATO team of analysts to evaluate the impacts, challenges, and opportunities international security forces have in protecting and rebuilding health systems in conflict-affected states. Dr. Bourdeaux earned her BA at Harvard University, her MD at Yale Medical School, completed her combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and completed her MPH at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was one of the first graduates of the Global Women’s Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Health Systems Conflict, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics |
Avik Chatterjee | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program | Addiction, Racism, Social Determinants of Health, Opiod Use Disorder | Dr. Chatterjee is a med-peds trained primary care and addiction medicine physician at several shelter-based clinics through Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. His areas of clinical and research interest include innovative treatment models for opioid use disorder in marginalized populations, and interventions on social determinants of health, such as food insecurity. He has an additional interest in racism and health care, particularly its manifestations in medical education and training. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Addiction, Racism, Social Determinants of Health, Homelessness |
Bram Wispelwey | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Health for Palestine | Structural Racism, Ethics, Community Health, Social Determinants of Health, Colonial Violence | Dr. Bram Wispelwey is a Hospitalist and Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Wispelwey is also an instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a Co-founder and Chief Strategist of Health for Palestine. Dr. Wispelwey’s research focuses on structural racism in hospital triage, ethics, community health worker impact, social and political barriers to health, and colonial violence. Dr. Wispelwey earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Ben-Gurian University, Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University, Master of Science degree in Human Nutrition from Columbia University, and Bachelor of Arts degree in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Structural Racism, Ethics, Community Health, Social Determinants of Health, Colonial Violence, Health for Palestine |
Susan A. Abookire | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Mount Auburn Hospital | Patient safety, Clinical Effectiveness | Susan Abookire, BSEE, MD, MPH, CPHIMS, is the Chair of the Department of Quality and Patient Safety at Mount Auburn Hospital, a Harvard Teaching Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr Abookire has taught and lectured nationally and internationally on topics including health care technology in clinical practice, human factors, adverse event reporting systems, disclosure and apology, and applying lessons from aviation safety to healthcare. Dr. Abookire founded an elective curriculum on quality and patient safety for residents in the Department of Medicine, which is now broadening to an integrated core curriculum. | Patient safety, Clinical Effectiveness, Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH |
Barbara Bierer | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, MRCT Center, Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, SMART IRB | Hematology, Oncology, Ethics, Law, Health Systems, Healthcare Policy | Barbara Bierer, MD, is the faculty director of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard (MRCT Center), a Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and a hematologist/oncologist. She is the Director of the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics and the Law Program of the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center and the Director of Regulatory Policy, SMART IRB. Previously she served as senior vice president, research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 11 years, and was the institutional official for human and animal research, for biosafety, and for research integrity. She initiated the Brigham Research Institute and the Innovation Hub (iHub), a focus for entrepreneurship and innovation. In addition, she was the Founding Director of the Center for Faculty Development and Diversity at the BWH. In addition to her academic responsibilities, she currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vivli, Inc., a non-profit organization founded by the MRCT Center. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, BWH, Vivli, MRCT Center, Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, SMART IRB, Ethics |
Alishya Mayfield | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Partners In Health | Internal Medicine, Public Policy, Child Health, Malnutrition, Noncommunicable Diseases | Dr. Alishya Mayfield, MD, MPH is the Senior Clinical Advisor on Strategy for Partners In Health (PIH), an Associate Scientist in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Mayfield began working in global health in 2004. She has direct implementation experience in Rwanda, Ghana, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Haiti, Madagascar, and Malawi. Dr. Mayfield joined PIH in 2007, and spent two years working on clinical programs for PIH in Rwanda. She has spent significant time working on clinical implementation programs in areas, including child health and malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and tuberculosis. In her current role as Senior Clinical Advisor on Strategy, Dr. Mayfield is using her combined background in public policy, medicine, and public health to develop programmatic and clinical strategy for PIH, and to strengthen key strategic partnerships for the organization. She is a graduate of the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also completed the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, and received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. | BWH (Global Equity), HMS, Partners In Health, Internal Medicine, Public Policy, Child Health, Malnutrition, Noncommunicable Diseases |
Thomas Gaziano | BWH, HMS, HSPH, Center for Health Decision Science | CVD, CVD management, Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, Cardiovascular risk factors, Internal medicine, Heart disease. | Dr. Thomas Andrew Gaziano specializes in cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Gaziano received his medical degree from HMS and completed an internal medicine residency at BWH. He then completed two fellowship programs: one in international epidemiology at University of Cape Town Private Academic Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa and the other in cardiovascular disease at BWH. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease. With clinical interests in coronary heart disease and international cardiovascular disease, Dr. Gaziano has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles. He has received research funding from the Initiative for Cardiovascular Health, the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. | |
Janet Rich-Edwards | BWH, HMS, HSPH, Radcliffe Institute | Womens health, children's health, social pathways, biological pathways, epidemiology, reproductive health, gender biology, reproductive epidemiology, fertility, birth weight, metabolic disorders | Janet Rich-Edwards is an epidemiologist focused on the intersection of a woman’s health and that of her children, investigating social and biological pathways through which health and disease processes develop. She is a codirector of the science program at the Radcliffe Institute, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of Developmental Epidemiology for the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate professor in the department of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a codirector of the Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology track at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she directs an advanced course in reproductive epidemiology. Her research has highlighted how the physical development of young women presages both their fertility and their risk of metabolic disorders and has helped to establish inverse associations of birth weight with cardiovascular disease and diabetes, for example. | |
Joseph Allen | Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment | Environmental Health, Community and occupational exposures, health risks, emissions, consumer products, building systems | Dr. Joseph Allen is an Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science in the Department of Environmental Health and Director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include community and occupational exposures and health risks, emissions from building materials and consumer products, building system performance | Occupational Health |
Aaron Bernstein | Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, HMS, Boston Children's Hospital | Environment and Health, Pediatrics, pediatric health, environmental health, energy, health, ecological change, built environment | Dr. Aaron Bernstein is the Co-Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) and is a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on the human health effects of global environmental changes, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, with the aim of promoting a deeper understanding of these subjects among students, educators, policy makers, and the public. | Climate Change, Pediatric Environmental Health, Energy and Health |
Susan Greenhalgh | FAS (Anthropology), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies | Asia, North America, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Technology sand Health, technology, anthropology, public policy, weight studies, reproduction, gender studies, socialism, post-socialism, China, Taiwan, US health, society | Dr. Susan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests include social studies of science, technology and medicine; anthropology of the state, governance, and public policy; critical weight studies; politics of reproduction and population; gender studies; modernity and globalization; socialism and post-socialism; China and Taiwan; and US health and society. | United States, China, Taiwan, |
Nathaniel Hendren | FAS (Economics) | Health Infrastructure, Intersection of theoretical and empirical work in public economics, Insurance, welfare, welfare, government policies, | Dr. Nathaniel Hendren is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include insurance markets, welfare measurement of government policies, intergenerational mobility. | Health Economics, Financing, Insurance |
Michael Kremer | FAS (Economics), Weatherhead Center | Economic development, growth; development, vaccines, migration, agriculture, water | Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is the 2019 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Kremer’s recent research examines education, health, water, and agriculture in developing countries. | |
Soha Bayoumi | FAS (History of Science) | Social Determinants of Health, Middle East, Health and Human Rights, Social justice, biomedical ethics, politices, middle East, gender studies, Gender, Race, access to healthcare | Dr. Soha Bayoumi is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests include social justice and health, biomedical ethics, medicine and politices, the Middle East, post-colonial and gender studies, influence of gender and race on the medical profession and access to healthcare. | Gender, Race, Medical Ethics, Egypt |
Jason Beckfield | FAS (Sociology), Weather Center and Initiative for Gender Inequality | economic inequality, welfare state, international organizations, social determinants of health inequalities, Consequences of social inequality, institutional theory, | Jason Beckfield is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research investigates the institutional causes and consequences of social inequality. Currently, he is working on three projects: (1) a book about economic inequality in the European Union; (2) a monograph and a series of journal articles that develop an institutional theory of stratification, with a substantive focus on population health; and (3) collaborative publications, many co-authored with PhD students, that investigate long-term trends in the development of political economy. | |
Ann Forsyth | GSD, HAPI (Health and Places Initiative) | Environment, Sustainable cities, healthy cities, urban health, urban cities | Dr. Ann Forsyth is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is also the Director of the Master in Urban Planning Program. Her research interests include sustainable and healthy cities, analysis of success of planned alternatives to sprawl, and tensions between social and ecological values in urban design. | Urbanization. Urban Design, Sustainability, Food Environments |
Raffaella Sadun | HBS | Health Infrastructure, Organizational change, productivity, economics, management. | Dr. Raffaella Sadun is a Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests include the economics of productivity, management and organizational change. | Healthcare Management |
Tarun Khanna | HBS, South Asia Institute | Health Infrastructure, Asia, North America, Economic development, globalization, emerging markets, | Dr. Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School. His research interests include diasporas, economic development, emerging markets, globalization and strategy. | Health Economics, Health Services Delivery, Innovation, United States, India |
Ingrid Katz | HGHI, BWH, MGH | Social determinants of health, HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, Socio-behavioral interventions | Dr. Katz, the Associate Faculty Director at HGHI, serves as an Associate Physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a research scientist at the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research over the past decade has focused on the social determinants of health-seeking behavior among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, with the goal of developing sustainable, socio-behavioral interventions aimed at improving care for the most under-served. | Social determinants of health, HIV, sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa |
Soroush Saghafian | HKS | Health care systems, Health Systems, Systems engineering, Health care engineerings, Public policy, | Soroush Saghafian, Assistant Professor of Public Policy (and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Healthcare Systems Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine), is interested in using and developing operations research and management science techniques that can have significant public benefits. | |
Amitabh Chandra | HKS, Weatherhead Center, FAS (Economics) | Technology, growth in health care, neonatal health, cardiovascular care, elderly well-being in India, antibiotic resistance, slum dwellers, racial disparities, innovation in healthcare, medical malpractice, child health | Professor Chandra is a member of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Panel of Health Advisors, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on innovation and cost-growth in healthcare, medical malpractice, and racial disparities in healthcare. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. He is the Chair Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. | |
Kevin Costello | HLS, CHLPI | Public interest law; health law; civil rights and civil liberties, Medicare, health policy, health law | Kevin Costello is the Litigation Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School and directs the Center’s health care rights enforcement. In this role, Mr. Costello leads impact litigation to preserve access to health care for low-income, chronically ill and otherwise vulnerable populations. In 2016, Mr. Costello represented the Plaintiffs in B.E. v. Teeter, a class action against a state agency that resulted in a groundbreaking injunction to reform Medicaid policy for low-income Hepatitis C patients. Prior to Harvard Law School, Kevin was in private practice for eight years, including as a principal at Klein Kavanagh Costello, LLP. His practice involved representing Plaintiffs in complex litigation in the fields of housing, health care, civil rights, antitrust and consumer law. He has been appointed by federal courts across the country to represent classes in Multi-District Litigation, as well as in nationwide class action litigation. Kevin has brought lawsuits against major banks for broken promises arising from the federal government’s Home Affordable Modification Program, challenged the broadcast blackout restrictions of Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League and fought against the practices of law firms and banks in Massachusetts that improperly foreclosed on financially distressed homeowners. Kevin was also part of the team that litigated a series of cases uncovering systemic racial discrimination in the mortgage lending field. Prior to entering private practice, Kevin was a staff attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, helping seniors navigate the health care system. In this role, he fought to ensure that his low-income clients were treated fairly in the roll-out of the Medicare prescription drug benefit and litigated to enforce their rights in various public benefit and health care systems. | |
Robert Greenwald | HLS, CHLPI (Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation) | Health law; access to care for low income populations; HIV law and policy; LGBT law and policy, Health Policy, | Robert Greenwald is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the faculty director of the Law School's Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI). In addition to teaching seminars in health and public health law and policy, for over 25 years Robert has been engaged in state and national research, policy development, and advocacy to expand access to high-quality health care, reduce health disparities, and promote more equitable and effective health care systems. Robert is currently serving as a co-chair of the Federal Chronic Illness & Disability Partnership and the HIV Health Care Access Working Group. From 2000-2006, Robert served as member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and as the co-chair of its Access to Care sub-committee. Robert has served as a consultant to the federal government’s Health Resources Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Community Advisory Board as well as numerous state governments and community-based organizations. Robert received his B.A. from Vassar College in 1980 and his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 1986. | |
Emily Broad Leib | HLS, CHLPI, HLS Mississippi Delta Project, Harvard Food Law Society | Food and drug law; health law; community economic development; clinical legal education; law and development; legislation | Emily M. Broad Leib is a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Deputy Director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. As founder of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Broad Leib launched the first law school clinic in the nation devoted to providing clients with legal and policy solutions to address the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system. Broad Leib focuses her scholarship, teaching, and practice on finding solutions to some of today’s biggest food law issues, aiming to increase access to healthy foods, eliminate food waste, and support sustainable food production and local and regional food systems. She has published scholarly articles in the California Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, the Harvard Law & Policy Review, the Food & Drug Law Journal, and the Journal of Food Law & Policy, among others. | |
I. Glenn Cohen | HLS, Petrie-Flom Center | Health information technologies; mobile health; reproductive technology; research ethics; rationing in law and medicine; health policy; FDA law; medical tourism | Prof. Cohen is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called "medical ethics") and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. From Seoul to Krakow to Vancouver, Professor Cohen has spoken at legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world and his work has appeared in or been covered on PBS, NPR, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Mother Jones, the New York Times, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, and several other media venues. | |
Carmel Shachar | HLS, Petrie-Flom Center | Regulation of access to care for vulnerable individuals, health care anti-discrimination law and policy, use of all-payer claims databases in health care research | Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, is the Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. She is responsible for oversight of the Center’s sponsored research portfolio, event programming, fellowships, student engagement, development, and a range of other projects and collaborations. She is Co-Lead of the Center’s Involvement with the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program of Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, and Co-Editor of the Center’s collaborative health policy blog, Bill of Health. Carmel’s scholarship focuses on law and health policy, in particular the regulation of access to care for vulnerable individuals, health care anti-discrimination law and policy, and the use of all-payer claims databases in health care research. Carmel is also a Lecturer at Law on Harvard Law School, where she co-teaches a course on “Health Care Rights in the Twenty-First Century.” | |
Mary Jo Good | HMS | Health and Human Rights, Technology and Health, Asia, Africa, North America, Cultural/political economy of biomedicine, moral dilemmas, physician health, professional competence, medical errors, political subjectivity, relationships between individuals and the state | Dr. Mary Jo Good is a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Emerita in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the culture and political economy of biomedicine, biotechnology and bioethics, including clinical realities and moral dilemmas encountered by physicians in the United States and globally. | Indonesia, East Africa, Medical Ethics, Biotechnology, United States, Southeast Asia |
Richard Frank | HMS | Non-Communicable Diseases, Health Ifrastructure, mental health, substance abuse care, Addiction, financing, health care policy, health reform, disability policy | Dr. Richard Frank is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include the economics of mental health and substance abuse care; long term financing policy; health care competition; and implementation of health reform and disability policy. | Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Financing, Health Sector Reform, Health Economics, |
Natasha Stout | HMS | Population health, population medicine, Electronic health data, data science, health data | Natasha Stout, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Population Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Her research agenda focuses on the use of decision-analytic modeling methods combined with analysis of real-world electronic health data to better understand how existing and emerging medical technologies are implemented and used to their fullest capacity to improve population health. She has particular expertise in cancer screening policy. Since its inception in 2000, Natasha has been participating in the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), a collaboration of independent modeling teams formed to address unresolved policy questions in cancer control. Her methodological interests are in the development and calibration of population-based discrete-event simulation models of disease. Natasha is active in the Society for Medical Decision Making and serves at the current Secretary-Treasurer. Previously she served on the Board of Trustees and coordinated the Society’s career development and mentoring programs. Dr. Stout received a B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College, and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering focusing on Operations Research and Decision Science and Ph.D. in Population Health Sciences from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to her Ph.D., she worked at Epic Systems on the development of healthcare information software. | |
Michael Chernew | HMS | Healthcare spending, health costs, health spending, copayments, quality, medication adherance, Health Policy, Quality care | Michael Chernew, PhD, is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chernew’s research examines several areas related to controlling health care spending growth while maintaining or improving quality of care. His work on consumer incentives focuses on Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID), which aligns patient cost sharing with clinical value. His work on payment reform involves the evaluation of population-based and episode-based payment models. Other areas of research examine Medicare Advantage, prescribing patterns and medication adherence, the causes and consequences of rising health care spending, and geographic variation in spending, spending growth and quality. Dr. Chernew earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in economics from Stanford University, where his training focused on areas of applied microeconomics and econometrics. In 1998, he was awarded the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators by the Association of University Programs in Public Health. In 1999, he received the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award from the Association of Health Services Research. Both of these awards recognize overall contribution to the field of health services research. His 2008 article in Health Affairs, titled “Impact of Decreasing Copayments on Medication Adherence within Disease Management Program,” was awarded the Research Award from the National Institute for Health Care Management. | |
Peter James | HMS | Environment and Health, Non-Communicable Diseases, Social Determinants of Health, pollition, food enviroment, health behaviors, chronic disease, air pollution, enviroment, | Dr. Peter James is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on estimating the influence of geographic contextual factors, including exposure to nature, the built environment, the food environment, air pollution, light pollution, noise, and socioeconomic factors, on health behaviors and chronic disease. | Air Pollution, Light Pollution, Noise Pollution, Cardiovascular Diseases |
David Grabowski | HMS | Health Infrastructure, Demography and Population Dynamics, Long term care, acute care, | Dr. David Grabowski is a Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research interests are the economics of aging with a particular interesti n the areas of long-term care and post-acute care, as well as the integration and coordination of care for dually eligible beneficiaries. | Health Economics, Aging, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care |
Laura Hatfield | HMS | Health Infrastructure, health outcomes,tStatistical methods, decision making, rmation, health policy, | Dr. Laura Hatfield is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the trade-offs and relationships among health outcome, with a particular focus on statisstical methods. | Measurement of Health Outcomes |
Haiden Huskamp | HMS | Health Infrastructure, Non-Communicable Diseases, Mental health, addiction, substance use disorder, prescriptions, drug abuse, end-of-life care, mental health, | Dr. Haiden Huskamp is the 30th Anniversary Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include mental health and substance use disorder policy, prescription drug policy, and the economics of end-of-life care services. | Mental Health, Mental Health Policy, Substance Abuse, Pharmaceutical Policy, Financing, End-of-Life Care, Health Policy, Health Systems, Health Economics |
Anupam Jena | HMS | Health Infrastructure, physician behavior, medical innovation, health care workforce, innovation, medical malpractice, economics of physician behavior. | Dr. Anupam Jena is the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, medical malpractice, the economics of health care productivity, and the economics of medical innovation. | Health Human Resources, Health Economics, Innovation |
Nancy Keating | HMS | Non-Communicable Diseases, Health Infrastructure, Cancer, High quality health care, Health System, health policy, | Dr. Nancy Keating is a Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Her research examines provider, patient, and health system factors that influence the delivery of high-quality care for individuals with cancer. | Quality, Cancer, Health Systems |
Ronald Kessler | HMS | Social Determinants of Health, Non-Communicable Diseases, Epidemiological perspective, illness | Dr. Ronald Kessler is the McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the social determinants of mental health and illness as studied from an epidemiological perspective. | Mental Health, Mental Health Epidemiology |
Bruce Landon | HMS | Health Infrastructure, assesing physicians, health plans, organizations, health care services, | Dr. Bruce Landon is a Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on assessing the impact of different characteristics of physicians and health care organizations, ranging from health plans to physician group practices on physician behavior and the provision of health care services. | Health Human Resources, Healthcare Organizations, Health Systems |
Mary Beth Landrum | HMS | Health Infrastructure, Medical guidelines, health care providers, | Dr. Mary Beth Landrum is a Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the development of medical guidelines and the profiling of health care providers. | Quality, Quality Measurement, Biostatistics |
Timothy Layton | HMS | Health Infrastructure, economics, health markets, payments, health quality, healht plan markets, health systems, | Dr. Timothy Layton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include the economics of health insurance markets with particular emphasis on understanding insurer behavior in those markets and designing optimal health plan payment systems. | Health Economics, Financing, Insurance |
Anne Becker | HMS | Oceania, Non-Communicable Diseases, Anthropology, eating pathology, eating habits, indigenous populations, suicide, media exposure, youth, health risks, Fiji | Dr. Anne Becker is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on media exposure and eating pathology in the small-scale indigenous population of Fiji. | Mental Health, Suicide, Eating Pathology, Fiji |
Nasreen Adamjee | HMS | Non-Communicable Diseases, Environment and Health, North America, Asia, obesity, research, cardiovascular, obesity, pollution, social medicine | Dr. Nasreen Adamjee is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Director of Research & Programs for the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery–Dubai. Her research interests include obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and pollution in Asia and the United States. | Obesity, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes, Pollution, India, China, United States |
Jaime Bayona | HMS | Infectious Diseases, epidemiology of Tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, community-based approaches, public health problems, social responsibility, public health approaches in global health. | Dr. Jaime Bayona is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include the epidemiology of tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, community-based approaches to dealing with public health problems, social responsibility, and public health approaches in global health. | Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Infectious Disease Epidemiology |
Agnes Binagwaho | HMS | Health Infrastructure, Health and Human Rights, Partners in Health, health equity, human rights, implementation science,improving care delivery systems. | Dr. Agnes Binagwaho is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity, an initiative of Partners In Health. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include health equity and human rights, implementation science, and improving care delivery systems. | Health Equity |
Robert Blacklow | HMS | Health Infrastructure, academic health, contemporary issues in health, sciences education, access to health professions, careers in medicine, physician and patient relationship, effective communication, | Dr. Robert Blacklow is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. his research interests include the relationships between academic health centers and their regional departments of health, contemporary issues in health sciences education, access to health professions careers by the social and economically disadvantaged, and ways in which physicians and their patients can communicate more effectively with each other. | Health Human Resources, Medical Education and Training |
Matthew Bonds | HMS | Health Infrastructure, Social Determinants of Health, ecology of poverty, ecology of economic development, implementing global health delivery systems. | Dr. Matthew Bonds is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include the ecology of poverty and economic development and the science of implementing global health delivery systems. | Poverty, Economic Developent, Health Delivery Systems |
Dan Brock | HMS | Health Rights, Human Rights, bioethics, philosophy, social medicine, bioethics, philosophy, | Dr. Dan Brock is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus, in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include medical ethics, bioethics and philosophy. | Medical ethics, Bioethics |
Gail Cassell | HMS | Infectious Diseases, TB, Tuberculosis, MDRTB, | Dr. Gail Cassell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include tuberculosis, especially multidrug resistant tuberculosis. | Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis |
Subhash Chandir | HMS | Child Health, Infectious Diseases, Health Infrastructure, Technology and Health, Epidemiology, Vaccines, Machine Learning, Economic incentives, health workforce, Immunization, | Dr. Subhash Chander is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine-preventable diseases, mHealth, machine learning, economic incentives, immunization survey methodology and empowering the health workforce. | Vaccines, Economic Incentives, Health Human Resources, Immunization Survey Methodology, mHealth, Machine Learning, Survey Methodology |
Eric Krakauer | HMS | Health Infrastructure, health policy, distribution, health insurance, insurance finance, quality care, public policy, Non-Communicable Diseases, Health and Human Rights, Asia, Social medicine, cancer care, ethical issues, end-of-life care, palliative | Dr. Eric Krakauer is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing internist and palliative medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests include cancer care, clinical and policy aspects of palliative care for poor and medically underserved populations, clinical and ethical issues in end-of-life care | Medical Ethics, Palliative Care, End-of-Life Care, Vietnam, Cancer |
Lindsey Marten Zeve | HMS | Global Health, Social Medicine | Lindsey Marten Zeve, Ph.D. is a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS. | Global Health, Social Medicine |
Marcia Angell | HMS | Health policy, medical ethics | Former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Angell is widely recognized as a national leader in areas of health policy and medical ethics. In the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, she is a key contributor to Division of Medical Ethics programs and planning. Her primary responsibility is to organize and moderate the Faculty Seminar Series, which attracts health care professionals from across the University and affiliated hospitals to monthly presentations and discussions. | Health policy, medical ethics, New England Journal of Medicine, global health and social medicine |
Dale Barnhart | HMS | Maternal and child health | Dale Barnhart is an epidemiologist conducting postdoctoral research under the guidance of Drs. Bethany Hedt-Gauthier and Fredrick Kateera. As a research fellow with Partners In Health-Rwanda, her research focuses on using implementation science to promote maternal and child health. Dr. Barnhart obtained her ScD in epidemiology and MS in biostatistics from Harvard University in 2019. | Maternal health, child health, Patners In Health-Rwanda, Rwanda, global health and social medicine |
Robert Stanley Blacklow | HMS | Health sciences education, social medicine | Dr. Blacklow is president emeritus of the Northeast Ohio Medical University (formerly the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine) and professor of community health sciences there. His interests and writings include the relationships between academic health centers and their regional departments of health, contemporary issues in health sciences education, access to health professions careers by the social and economically disadvantaged, and ways in which physicians and their patients can communicate more effectively with each other. He is currently working on a longitudinal study of the outcome of the Harvard Health Careers Summer Program—an enhancement program to the health professions for the socially and economically disadvantaged offered jointly by the Harvard Summer School and HMS in the late 1960s and 1970s. He also serves as a faculty adviser to the HMS Medical Clinical Casebook Project and is a member of the Senior Common Room in Lowell House at Harvard College. | Community health sciences, health sciences education, social medicine |
Chantelle Marie Boudreaux | HMS | Health systems, community health worker programs | Chantelle Boudreaux focuses on how to build better health systems, or how to merge a country's epidemiologic profile with their existing resources and fiscal space to best respond to current and anticipated health needs. With the Program in Global Noncommunicable Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, her research focuses this question on health delivery design at the hospital level. This includes the optimal clustering of tasks among providers, and interfaces within and outside of the health system to better understand how diverse clinical skills and interdisciplinary roles, programs, and service tiers can be better organized in order to influence the comprehensive delivery of healthcare services and population health outcomes. | community health workers, health systems, hea |
Meredith Brooks | HMS | Tuberculosis | Meredith Brooks, PhD, MPH is an Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has been in the Department since 2011 working on a wide variety of tuberculosis (TB) research projects, including international clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of TB treatments. Dr. Brooks obtained her PhD in Population Health in 2017, and previously an MPH in 2013, from Northeastern University. Her dissertation work was dedicated to applying more robust methodologies to reduce bias in the analyses of observational cohort data-- specifically, TB treatment cohort analyses. After graduating she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship under Professor Mercedes Becerra, focusing on TB epidemiology. | Tuberculosis, TB epidemiology |
Daniel Scott Corlew | HMS | Surgical development | Dr. Corlew’s focus is on surgical development and the economic value of surgical services in the developing world. He is a plastic surgeon, and previously practiced primary care in the National Health Service Corps and practiced general surgery prior to plastic surgery training. He served as Chief Medical Officer of Resurge International where he worked to develop surgical capacity and delivery in South Asia, Central and South America, and sub-Saharan Africa. He has degrees from Vanderbilt (BA), Emory (MD), and Harvard School of Public Health (MPH). | Plastic surgery, surgical development, National Health Peace Corps, South Asia, South America, sub-Saharan Africa |
David Duong | HMS | Advanced primary health care systems, medical education | Dr. Duong is a graduate of HMS who conducts research toward improving primary health care and medical education, particularly in Vietnam. He is interested in promoting global primary care through public-private partnerships and collaborations to strengthen and advance primary care delivery systems and human resources for health in low resourced settings of the US and other countries. He is the associate director of partnerships and health systems for the Partnership for Health Advancement in Vietnam, a Harvard Medical School Global Program. David mentors HMS students. His clinical practice is at the BWH Phyllis Jen Center. In 2018, the World Health Organization named him one of 21 global Young Leaders in Primary Care. He currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Future Council for Health and Healthcare and is a 2020 Presidential Leadership Scholar. | Vietnam, primary health care delivery systems |
Michael M.J. Fischer | HMS | Social anthropology | Michael Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon professor in the humanities and professor of anthropology and science and technology studies at MIT and lecturer on global health and social medicine at HMS. He trained in geography and philosophy at Johns Hopkins, social anthropology and philosophy at the London School of Economics, anthropology at the University of Chicago. Before joining the MIT faculty, he served as director of the Center for Cultural Studies at Rice. He conducts fieldwork in the Caribbean, Middle East, South and Southeast Asia on the anthropology of biosciences, media circuits, and emergent forms of life. | Caribbean, Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, social anthropology |
Jennifer J. Furin | HMS | TB, HIV/AIDS | Jennifer Furin, MD, PhD, is an infectious diseases clinician and a medical anthropologist who focuses on global health. She received her PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1995 and her MD from Harvard Medical School in 1999. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2002 and her fellowship in infectious diseases at University Hospitals Case Medical Center (Cleveland) in 2004. Dr. Furin is engaged in clinical and program work and operational research to support the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV. | HIV, AIDS, TB, Peru, Hatii, Russia, |
Jerome Galea | HMS | Mental Health Interventions, HIV/STI | Dr. Galea’s research focuses on understanding the mediating factors that promote or inhibit the knowledge, access and uptake of existing and novel HIV and sexually transmitted infection interventions and, more recently, low-intensity mental health interventions. Most of his HIV/STI research is based in Lima, Peru and is among men who have sex with men and transgender women. Mental health research includes exploring interventions for patients with tuberculosis and depression; the implementation of community-based, non-pharmacological depression interventions; and, increasing the uptake of existing depression care services by modifying inhibitory social norms. | HIV, STI, Mental Health, Peru |
Hannah Gilbert | HMS | Medical Anthropologist, Global Health Delivery | Hannah Gilbert, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She teaches in the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery program, co-directing courses on qualitative research methods for global health research, and mixed methods in global health delivery research. She is also the program’s advisor for qualitative research. | Global Health Delivery, HIV, sub-Saharan Africa |
Joseph P. Gone | HMS | Pyschology/mental health of American Indians/Indigenous Peoples | Joseph P. Gone, PhD, is an international expert in the psychology and mental health of American Indians and other Indigenous peoples. A professor at Harvard University, Dr. Gone has collaborated with tribal communities for 25 years to re-envision conventional mental health services for advancing Indigenous well-being. Even while undertaking unpredictable community-based partnerships, | Psychology, Mental health, American Indian, Indigenous peoples, mental health services |
Katherine Gottlieb | HMS | Customer-driven health care | Katherine Gottlieb, MBA, DPS, LHD, is a leader in customer-driven health care improvement. For more than 25 years, she has served as the president/CEO of Southcentral Foundation, the largest regional tribal health organization in Alaska. When she assumed her leadership role, Alaska Native health care was primarily managed and administered by the Indian Health Service. She led a whole system redesign to transform what was once a slow medical bureaucracy into an agile, customer-owned system of care | Alaska, customer-driven health care, American Indian, Alaska Native Tribal Consortium, primary care redesign, behavioral health |
Omar Haque | HMS | Social science, pyschiatry | Omar Sultan Haque, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and social scientist who studies questions ranging across global health, anthropology, social psychology, bioethics, law, and religion. | Psychiatry, social science, global health, anthropology, bioethics, |
Howard Hiatt | HMS | Social determinants of health, molecular and cell biology | Dr. Hiatt attended Harvard College and received his MD from the Harvard Medical School in 1948. Trained in clinical medicine, biochemistry, and molecular biology, he has been on the Harvard University faculty since 1955. His early research focused on the application of molecular biology to medical problems, particularly cancer. He was a member of the team at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, that first identified and described messenger RNA, and he was among the first to demonstrate messenger RNA in mammalian cells. | Social determinants of health, quality and costs of medical care |
Sabine Hildebrandt | HMS | Pediatrics, history and ethics of anatomy, medical ethics, medical history | Dr. Hildebrandt is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, and a lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After medical studies at the University of Marburg, Germany, and a professional start in experimental rheumatology, she became an anatomical educator. In this capacity she worked at the University of Michigan Medical School from 2002 to 2013, and since then at Harvard. Her research interests are the history and ethics of anatomy, and specifically the history of anatomy in National Socialist Germany, a field in which she is an internationally recognized expert. One focus of her work is the restoration of biographies of victims of the Holocaust. Her educational approach integrates anatomy, medical history and medical ethics. | Medical ethics, medical history, pediatrics, history and ethics of anatomy |
Caterina Hill | HMS | Social determinants of health, HIV | Caterina Hill specializes in driving transformation for healthcare organizations working in the social determinants of health space, through innovation and analytics Before joining Harvard in 2010, she was an epidemiologist leading HIV and sexual health surveillance systems in South Africa and the UK. | HIV, social determinants of health, South Africa, UK |
Edward Hundert | HMS | Psychiatry, Neuroscience, medical ethics | Dr. Hundert is the Dean for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School and has contributed to the literature on medical education. He has held appointments in pyschiatry, medical ethics, cognitive science and medical humanities. | Medical education, medical ethics, psychiatry |
Eric Emil Jacobson | HMS | Social medicine, medical anthropology, alternative therapies | Dr. Jacobson is a lecturer on social medicine. His initial research training was in medical anthropology, with a dissertation on psychiatric aspects of Tibetan medicine. Since then, Dr. Jacobson has been investigating Asian and other alternative therapies including work on studies of the placebo effect and diagnostic reasoning in acupuncture. Dr. Jacobson recently conducted a pilot clinical trial of an alternative manual therapy, structural integration, as a treatment for low-back pain. | Social medicine, alternative therapies |
Ted Kaptchuk | HMS | Placebo Studies and Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS), placebo studies, East Asian medicine, medical pluralism | Ted J. Kaptchuk is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a professor of Global Health and Social Medicine. As a leading figure in placebo studies, a scholar of East Asian medicine, and an academic authority on medical pluralism, Professor Kaptchuk's career has spanned multiple disciplines, drawing upon concepts, research designs and analytical methods from the humanities and basic and clinical and social sciences. | PiPS, placebo studies, clinical sciences, social sciences |
Jennifer Kasper | HMS | Global health, pediatrics, human rights, HIV | Dr. Kasper has provided clinical care to underserved children in the US and resource-limited settings abroad; directed health care delivery and capacity-building programs in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa; implemented PEPFAR-funded HIV programs in Mozambique; participated in disaster relief efforts in Honduras and Haiti; and conducted research projects on hunger among immigrant families with children in the US, child labor in India, and the relevance of social medicine course for undergraduate medical education. | PEPFAR, HIV, Mozambique, health care delivery, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, pediatrics, social justice |
Arlene Katz | HMS | Cross-cultural care, mental health, ageism, newborn health and social change | Dr. Katz's main research interests include the culture of medicine, qualitative methods in multicultural mental health, disparities in vulnerable populations, newborn health and social change, and ageism and stereotyping. Dr. Katz is also interested in mental health in primary care, the moral dimensions of care, social suffering, accompaniment, care giving, and the experience of illness, social poetics, and narratives of clinical care, the ethics of informed consent, and hearing the voices of the community in care, research, and environment. | Culture of medicine, mental health, newborn health and social change, ageism, moral dimensions of care, ethics of informed consent |
Joan A. Kaufman | HMS | HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, maternal mortality and morbidity | Dr. Kaufman's research projects focus on building the capacity for government and nongovernmental-organization collaboration on China’s AIDS response, improving reproductive health services for poor women, developing and evaluating mental health counseling interventions for AIDS orphans, and examining social policies and demographic evidence related to the impacts of China’s one-child population policy. Her overall research and teaching focuses on gender, population and global health policy and governance issues including health and trade, health and climate change, emerging infectious diseases and health security. | HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, mental health, China |
Vanessa Kerry | HMS | Economic, social, and cultural disparities; global public policy | Dr. Kerry is the director of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The program helps examine the underutilization of healthcare as a tool to address economic, social, and cultural disparities that define poor health domestically and internationally. The Program’s signature initiative is the Threatened Health System Initiative which specifically focuses on the opportunities for protecting health systems in crisis response especially by security and military actors | Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change, health disparities, Seed Global Health, health care training |
Sheila Klassen | HMS | Noncommunicable diseases, cardiovascular disease | As a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Bukhman and the Program on Global Noncommunicable Disease and Social Change, Dr. Klassen participates in studying decentralization and integration of management for advanced cardiovascular disease at the district hospital level in four low-income countries: Haiti, Rwanda, Malawi, and Liberia. | Haiti, Rwanda, Malawi, Liberia, cardiovascular disease, echocardiography |
Gene Fazil Kwan | HMS | Cardiology, Global health, Non-Communicable Diseases | Dr. Kwan (MD, MPH) is a cardiologist and global health researcher developing expertise in the intersection between these two fields. His research stems from experience in the field in rural Rwanda and Haiti since 2008 in collaboration with local Ministries of Health and the non-governmental organizations Partners In Health and Zanmi Lasante. His research has helped determine that heart failure in rural Rwanda and Haiti is generally from endemic causes (as opposed to coronary heart disease) and a leading cause of hospitalization. In addition, his team demonstrated that nurse-directed management improves control of blood pressure for patients with hypertension and improves symptoms for those with heart failure. | Partners In Health, Haiti, Rwanda, Non-Communicable Diseases |
Leonid Lecca | HMS | Tuberculosis, mental health, maternal health, social responsibility | Dr. Lecca's research focuses on the epidemiology of tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, maternal-health, mental health, chronic diseases and community-based approaches to dealing with public health problems, social responsibility, and public health approaches in global health. | TB, Mental Health, maternal health, chronic diseases |
Sue Ellen Levkoff | HMS | Social Work, Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease | Dr. Levkoff’s research focuses on gerontology, gerontechnology, and disparities related to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. She is involved in technology-based research on topics including, mHealth to monitor medication adherence among older HIV+ African Americans, remote monitoring to prevent hospital readmissions in older African Americans discharged with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure, and mHealth to improve sleep in older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. | Social work, Pyschiatry, Aging, Gerontology, SeniorSMART |
Edward Lowenstein | HMS | Access to Medical Care, Socioeconomic Determinants of Health | Dr. Lowenstein's present research interests are in access to medical care, socioeconomic determinants of health, and the relative importance of socioeconomic status and medical care to health status. | Medical Ethics, Access to Medical Care |
John G Meara | HMS | Craniofacial Anomalies, Surgical Education, Value-based Health Care | Dr. Meara's interests and innovation activities lie in the areas of craniofacial anomalies, cleft lip and cleft palate, but he has a particular interest in augmenting the delivery of quality surgical and anesthesia care in low-resource settings through long term capacity building. | Craniofacial Anomalies, Cleft Lip, Cleft Palate, Surgical Disease, ICHOM, Partners In Health, Global Surgical Systems |
Ann Miller | HMS | Child Development Programs, Community Public Health, HIV, TB | Dr. Miller's research focuses on evaluation of tools and strategies for use in public health practice at the community level, and the translation of health and child development programs into resource-poor settings. | Population Health, Child Development Programs, Community Public Health, TB, HIV, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Peru |
Christine Mitchell | HMS | Medical Ethics, Ethics Consultation | Christine Mitchell's current research, with Judy Johnson and Bob Truog, is focused on evaluation of ethics consultation at Harvard hospitals (TEECH). Christine is also director of the Office of Ethics at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she co-chairs the hospital’s Ethics Advisory Committee and directs the ethics consultation service. | Medical Ethics, Clinical Ethics, Boston Children's Hospital, Society for Bioethics Advisory Committee, Ethics Consultation |
Carole Diane Mitnick | HMS | TB, MDRTB | Dr. Mitnick’s research centers on the improvement of clinical management and programmatic policy for tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) globally. | |
John Naslund | HMS | Reserach Methodology, Social Disparities, Digital Mental Health | Dr. Naslund has expertise in research methodology, implementation science, social disparities research, and digital mental health. His work seeks to address early mortality that disproportionately impacts individuals living with serious mental illnesses worldwide, and to reduce the global treatment gap for mental disorders using novel digital methods | Mental Health, Social Disparities |
Aditi Nerurkar | HMS | Health Communication, Social Determinants of Health, Mental Health, Resilience | Dr. Nerurkar is an integrative medicine physician & health communicator. | Community Engagement, Health Communication, Alaska, Boston |
Nancy Oriol | HMS | Social Determinants of Health, Structural Racism, Health Equity | Dr. Oriol specializes in investigating the role of the mobile health care sector in the United States. Her work has demonstrated the mobile health care sector’s return on investment in terms of quality life-years saved and emergency department visits avoided. | Mental Health, Social Determinants of Health, Biomedical Literacy, Structural Racism, Health Equity |
Jeremy Jacob Nobel | HMS | InciteHealth Program, Primary Care, Practice Redesign | Dr. Nobel joined the Center for Primary Care, where he teaches fellows in the InciteHealth program and advises the center on efforts related to primary care payment reform and practice redesign. | Primary Care, InciteHealth |
Prashant Yadav | HMS | Healthcare Supply Chains | Prashant Yadav's work focuses on improving and designing better healthcare supply chains for products with social benefits. | Healthcare Supply Chains |
Mitchell Gralnick Weiss | HMS | Cultural Psychiatry, Medical Anthropology, Health Social Science Research. Global Mental Health | Dr. Mitchell G. Weiss is a cultural psychiatrist, medical anthropologist, and health social science researcher. | Global Mental Health, Psychiatry, Medical Anthopology, Cultural Epidemiology |
Daniel Vincent Vigo | HMS | Psychology, Psychiatry, Mental and Substance Use Disorder | Dr. Vigo is currently leading a number of projects including as PI of Needs-Based Planning for Mental and Substance Use Disorder Services in British Columbia, and several other Canada-based projects. At Harvard, he is part of a new initiative on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development led by Vikram Patel, and of the World Mental Health Surveys Initiative led by Ron Kessler. | Mental Health |
Brittney van de Water | HMS | Pediatric Nurse, Global Health Delivery | Dr. Brittney van de Water's research focuses on improving treatment guidelines and outcomes for pediatric drug-resistant tuberculosis. Specifically, she is working with Dr. Mercedes Becerra on improving treatment and care for children exposed to tuberculosis at home in South Africa, Peru, and globally. | Global Health Delivery, TB, South Africa, Peru |
Robert Truog | HMS | Bioethics, Pediatric ICU | Dr. Robert Truog's major topics of interest include the concept of brain death, the ethics of organ procurement and transplantation, end-of-life care in the ICU, futility and the limits of medical technology, rationing of scarce resources, and disclosure and apology following medical errors. | Bioethics, Pediatric ICU, End of Life Care, |
Mary Smith-Fawzi | HMS | HIV, Healthcare Professional Training | Dr. Smith Fawzi is an epidemiologist trained at the Harvard School of Public Health with direct experience running NIH-funded research and training projects. | HIV, Infectious Disease and Social Change, Haiti, Malaria, TB |
Erin Sullivan | HMS | Primary Care Systems, Global Health Delivery | Erin E. Sullivan, PhD, is the research and curriculum director at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. In this role, Erin leads the Center’s research program, where her team studies high performing primary care systems around the world. Erin also directs the Center’s evaluation efforts for the Center’s Advancing Teams Program and Primary Care Improvement Network. She also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and co-directs the Physician as a Leader course for fourth year medical students. | Global Health Delivery, TB, Primary Care Systems, HIV |
Sadath Ali Sayeed | HMS | Neonatal and Pediatric Bioethics, Global Health | Sadath A. Sayeed is assistant professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School and a staff neonatologist and assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital. | Bioethics, Global Health, Seed Global Health, Global Health Delivery |
Robert Riviello | HMS | Global Surgery, Social Change | Dr. Riviello is a member of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and has published papers on academic needs and curricula related to surgical training in developing countries, training surgical residents for careers in academic global surgery, surgical conditions and approaches to care in low- and middle-income countries, and other important subjects, such as a study of the impact of the 2010 earthquake on pediatric surgical delivery in Haiti. | Global Surgery, Global Health, Social Change, Surgical Training |
Scott Harris Podolsky | HMS | Medical Evolution, Antibiotics | Dr. Podolsky's research focuses on the history of 19th- and 20th-century therapeutics and medical evolution, with a focus on the history of antibiotics, the evolving authority of the controlled clinical trial, and relationships among physicians, medical journals, the pharmaceutical industry, and governmental agencies. | History of Antibiotics, Medical Evolution |
Claire-Cecile Pierre | HMS | Healthcare Worker Reinforcement, Healthcare Systems, Public Health Informatics | Dr. Pierre is an instructor in global health and social medicine, director of the Program in Global Health Systems Strengthening and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and instructor at Cambridge Health Alliance. Her research interests are health care workforce reinforcement through global partnerships; strengthening health systems across the post disaster periods (humanitarian, recovery, etc.); public health informatics; and models of leadership for continued community engagement in public health planning. | Global Health, Cambridge Health Alliance, Healthcare Systems |
Russell Scott Phillips | HMS | Primary Care Systems | Dr. Phillips researches the impact of changes in payment and primary care practice structure on the finances of primary care practices. | Primary Care Systems |
Lynn Martin Peterson | HMS | Advanced Age, Chronic Illness | Dr. Peterson studies access to health care in rural, low-density populations especially for those of advanced age and chronic illness. | Advanced Age, Chronic Illness, Accessibility to Healthcare |
Kee B. Park | HMS | Neurosurgery, Global Health | Dr. Park is the director of the North Korea Program at the Korean American Medical Association. He leads the collaboration between USand DPRK physicians. Dr. Park is a consultant for the World Health Organization and serves on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Surgical Care and Anesthesia. In this capacity, he advocates for and assists in the development of national surgical plans by the Member States. | North Korea, Neurosurgery, WHO |
Vikram Patel | HMS | Global Mental Health, Mental Disorders | Dr. Patel leads research that plays a central role in the emergence and development of the field of global mental health and that has galvanized policy, civil society, and donor action to address the large unmet need for care for people with mental disorders, both in low-and middle-income countries and in low resourced contexts of high-income countries. | Global Mental Health, India, UK, Delivery Interventions |
Katherine Peeler | HMS | Pediatric ICU | Katie Peeler is a pediatric intensivist at Boston Children's Hospital, Medical Director of Harvard Medical School's Asylum Clinic, and long-time volunteer and medical expert with Physicians for Human Rights. | Pediatric ICU |
Jonathan Crocker | HMS, BIDMC | health care delivery, mentorship, global health mentorship, residents in global health, Residency, graduate medical education | Global ehalth faculty at BIDMC, | |
Tomer Barak | HMS, BIDMC, Scottish Livingstone Hospital | undocumented, immigrant health, refugees, Israel, clinical care of immigrants, Palestinian territories, limited access to healthcare, Ecaudor; Gabon, Botswana, internal medicine, Nigeria, Chile, Honduras, Israel, refugee health, | Dr. Tomer Barak is a hospitalist at BIDMC and at the Scottish Livingstone Hospital (SLH) in Botswana. After graduating from medical school and completing his medical internship in Tel- Aviv, Israel he held various positions as a military doctor, expedition physician and generalist in Israel, Argentina, Chile, Honduras and Nigeria. As a member of Physicians for Human Rights, Israel he assisted in clinical care of undocumented work immigrants and refugees as well as residents of the Palestinian territories who have limited access to healthcare as a consequence of Israeli occupation. His global health experience additionally includes research in rural Ecuador and further clinical work in Gabon and Botswana. He also completed a Masters in Tropical Medicine and International Health as well as a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at BIDMC and is now in-country director of the Botswana Global Health Program through BIDMC. In this role, he supervises residents on international health rotations, oversees global health fellows, and leads quality improvement and educational projects at Scottish Livingstone Hospital, Molepolole, Botswana. | |
Judith Palfrey | HMS, Boston Children's Hospital | Social Determinants of Health, Child Health and Development, Health and Human Rights, Non-Communicable Diseases, Chil development, pediatricians, social determinants, pediatric responsibility | Dr. Judith Palfrey is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics and a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include delivery of community services to children, particularly children and youth with special health care needs, and the ways in which pediatricians can address social determinants of health as a part of pediatric responsibility. | Chile, Haiti, United States, Mental Health, Disaster Response, Trauma, Early Childhood Development, Gun Violence |
Barbara McNeil | HMS, BWH | Medicare, veteran health, cardiac disease, veteran affairs, | Dr. McNeil’s research activities have focused on several areas, most notably technology assessment and quality of care. Her most recent work includes two large studies supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The first focused on a comparison of quality of care for veterans with cardiac disease, with the care provided to Medicare beneficiaries seen in private settings. The report led to the introduction of many changes in the care of veterans with cardiac disease. As a result of that study, Dr. McNeil and her colleagues recently completed a similar study on cancer care; they studied patients with lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, or several hematological malignancies. She and colleagues from Abt Associates are now evaluating the extent to which the infrastructure for research in the VA matches the needs of its investigators. With Drs. Chernew and Landon and colleagues from the Children’s Hospital, she is examining the impact of global payments in Massachusetts on the care of children. | |
Michael Balboni | HMS, BWH | Divinity, theology, public health, palliative care, | Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div, is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and a palliative care researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in theology from Boston University and completed post-doctoral training at the Harvard School of Public Health and at Harvard Divinity School. He received a career development award as a faculty scholar with the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago. As a theologian, his focus has included the development of a theology of medicine and a concentration in the theological underpinnings related spiritual care in a pluralistic, secular medical context. He is currently writing a manuscript, co-authored with Tracy Balboni, entitled Hostility to Hospitality, to be published with Oxford University Press in 2015. The book explores the manifestations of spirituality and religion within the socialization processes and institutional structures experienced by medical professionals. In addition, Michael works as a social-scientific researcher. His empirical projects currently focus on spirituality and religion and their associations with end-of-life medical utilization and patient outcomes. His work has also included a focus on the incorporation of religious variables within social-scientific measurements and ways in which scientific data informs theology. | |
Salmaan Keshavjee | HMS, BWH (Global Equity) | Middle East, Infectious Diseases, Technology and Health, Health Infrastructure, multi - drug resistant, TB, Globalization, Transborder civil society. | Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee is a Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Director of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Global Health Delivery–Dubai. His research interests include multidrug-reistant tuberculosis treatment and policy, health sector reform and asccess to healthcare and medical technology in transitional societies, the role of non-governmental oganiations in globalization and the formation of trans-border civil society, and modernity, society and health in the Middle East and Central Asia. | United Arab Emirates, Tuberculosis, Mutidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Tajikistan, Russia, HIV/AIDS, Lesotho, |
Mary Catherine Arbour | HMS, BWH (Global Equity) | Social Determinants of Health, Latin America and the Caribbean, Child Health and Development, Health Infrastructure | Dr. Mary Catherine Arbour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include the evaluation interventions to promote child development and reduce inequities in the U.S. and abroad, using a combination of experimental, ethnographic and quality improvement methodologies. | Implementation Science, Home Visiting, Quality Improvement, Maternal Depression, Chile, South America |
Edward Anthony Nardell | HMS, BWH (Global Equity) | MDRTB, TB, UVGI | Dr. Nardell's research interests involve the control of tuberculosis under resource-limited conditions, with a focus on the pathogenesis of drug-resistant tuberculosis, its airborne transmission, and transmission control in institutions. | MDRTB, South Africa, Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation |
Tracy Balboni | HMS, BWH, DFCI | Palliative care, radiotherapy, spirituality, cancer, womens health, end of life medical care, oncology, clinical oncology. | Dr. Balboni is a graduate of Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a radiation oncologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with board certification in palliative care. Tracy's primary research interests are in palliative care, including the psychosocial aspects of advanced cancer and radiotherapy for palliation. Within the psychosocial aspects of advanced cancer, she has a particular focus on the role of religion and spirituality in the experience of cancer. This includes the impact of religion/spirituality on coping and end-of-life medical care and the impact of spiritual care in the medical setting on patient end-of-life outcomes. Tracy's research also includes improving radiotherapy for palliation, such as studying applications of new radiotherapy technologies to palliation. Dr. Balboni also serves as the Clinical Director of the Supportive and Palliative Raditation Oncology Service, and is an Assistant Residency Director o the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. | |
David Shumway Jones | HMS, FAS | Culture of medicine, history and culture of science and technology, history of science | Dr. Jones is the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, a joint position between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine. The Ackerman Program at Harvard University fosters collaborations in the medical humanities and social sciences across the two campuses. | Culture of medicine, social medicine, Pediatrics, Ackerman Program |
Byron Good | HMS, FAS (Anthropology) | Asia, Non-Communicable Diseases, Mental health, Asian societies, Indonesia, early phases of psychotic illness | Dr. Byron Good is a Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on mental health services development in Asian societies, particularly Indonesia. | Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Mental Health |
Alan Zaslavsky | HMS, FAS (Statistics), DF/HCC | Social Determinants of Health, Health Infrastructure, Surveys, census methodology; microsimulation models; missing data; hierarchical modeling; small-area estimation; quality measurement of health plans and providers; measurement of racial disparities, ethnic disparities, racial disparities, ethnic disparities, quality measurement, pediatric hospital care, research, health policy issues | Dr. Alan Zaslavsky is the Daniel C. Tosteson Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include surveys; census methodology; microsimulation models; missing data; hierarchical modeling; small-area estimation; quality measurement of health plans and providers; measurement of racial and ethnic disparities in care; causes of racial and ethnic disparities; quality measurement of pediatric hospital care; national opinion research on health policy issues. | Quality Measurement, Health Systems, Race, Ethnicity |
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier | HMS, Global Health Research Core | program monitoring, program evaluation, disease surveillance, HIV, TB, malaria, electronic health systems, data quality assessments, community health workers | Dr. Gauthier received a BS with distinction in mathematics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1999. Immediately following her undergraduate training, she served three years in the U.S. Peace Corps in Namibia, where she was introduced to the needs and challenges of global public health and the role of research in addressing these gaps. In 2003, she began a PhD program in biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health. During this training, Dr. Hedt-Gauthier took a leave of absence to complete a fellowship in strategic information at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Malawi. She received her PhD in 2008 and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the same department in 2010. | |
Molly Franke | HMS, Global Health Research Core | risk factors, HIV, TB, cholera, food insecurity, psychosocial morbidities, Peru | Dr. Franke earned a BA degree in sociology and Spanish from Colby College. She then went to work as a research analyst for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Epidemiology & Immunization Surveillance Program and as a research assistant with Partners In Health in Lima, Peru. While pursuing her doctoral degree in epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she conducted field research at Partners In Health sites in Peru and Rwanda. She joined the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in 2010. In addition to pursuing independent research, Dr. Franke is a member of the Global Health Research Core. In this role, she serves as lead epidemiologist and analyst for multiple research projects of the Global Health Delivery Partnership, including projects based in Haiti, Papua New Guinea, and Mexico. | |
Megan Murray | HMS, Global Health Research Core, BWH (Global Equity), HSPH | MDR/XDR-TB, outcomes and operations research, genomic epidemiology, Global Health, BWH, PIH, Epidemiology | Megan Murray is an epidemiologist and an infectious disease physician, with over 25 years of experience in management of TB programs and TB epidemiology and is the director of the Research Core. Dr. Murray is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health where she leads a research team which conducts multidisciplinary research on MDR and XDR TB involving conventional and molecular epidemiology, cost-effectiveness and mathematical modeling, outcomes and operations research, and genomic epidemiology. Dr. Murray is also a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of Research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity and its sister organization, Partners In Health. | |
Allan Brandt | HMS, HGHI, Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Infectious Diseases, ethical aspects of health, Medical Ethics, United states, | Dr. Allan Brandt is the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science in the Department of the History of Science in the Faculty of Arts sand Sciences and Harvard Medical School. His research interests include social and ethical aspects of health, disease, and medical practices in the twentieth century United States. | History of Medicine, Medical Ethics, Smoking, Health Policy, |
Ronak Patel | HMS, HHI, BWH | rapid urbanization, urbanization and health and well-being, Humanitarian disasters, global health crisis, | Dr. Ronak Patel is the founder and director of the Urbanization and Crises program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Patel's research focuses primarily on the challenges and opportunities presented by rapid urbanization for humanitarian disasters and vulnerable populations. His research focuses on exposing risks and developing tools and interventions to mitigate and address these risks to health and development. He works through community based organizations (CBOs) to collect data and implement projects for marginal populations in urban slums. His past and current areas of geographic focus include India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Colombia, and Zimbabwe. | |
Sue Goldie | HMS, HSPH | Global Health, policy translation, cancer prevention, reproductive health, maternal mortality | Dr. Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, is a physician, decision analyst, and public health scientist working to improve the health of vulnerable populations across the globe. Renowned for her scholarship in decision science, commitment to policy translation, and innovative approach to interdisciplinary education, Goldie serves as the Director of both the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (Harvard University) and the Center for Health Decision Science (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health). | Public health, Global health, health policy, cancer, reproductive health, maternal mortality |
Satchit Balsari | HMS, HSPH, BIDMC | Mobile technology, Disaster response, Population health | Dr. Satchit Balsari is an assistant professor in emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His interdisciplinary interests in mobile technology, disaster response, and population health have been informed by his clinical practice in the United States and his field work around the world. His research has resulted in innovative applications of mobile, cloud-based technology to address public health challenges in mass gatherings, disasters, and humanitarian crises. | mobile technology, disaster response, and population health |
Milton Weinstein | HMS, HSPH, Center for Health Decision Science | Cost-effectiveness, Global health medical practices, economic evaluation, decision analysis in healthcare, cardiovascular diseases, Hypertension, Health Policy, Health Management, | Milton C. Weinstein, Ph.D., is the Henry J. Kaiser Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is best known for his research on cost-effectiveness of medical practices and for developing methods of economic evaluation and decision analysis in health care. He is a co-developer of the CEPAC (Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications) computer simulation model, and has conducted studies on prevention and treatment of HIV infections. He was the co-developer of the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model, which has been used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular prevention and treatment. He is an author of four books: Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values; Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, the report of the Panel of Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine; Clinical Decision Analysis; and Hypertension: A Policy Perspective. He has also published more than 350 papers in peer-reviewed medical, public health, and economics journals. He is a consultant with Precision Xtract and Quadrant Health Economics. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a recipient of the Award for Career Achievement from the Society for Medical Decision Making and the Avedis Donabedian Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. Dr. Weinstein received his A.B. and A.M. in Applied Mathematics (1970), his M.P.P. (1972), and his Ph.D. in Public Policy (1973) from Harvard University. | |
Arthur Kleinman | HMS, Program in Family Care for the Elderly | Asia, North America, Non-Communicable Diseases, Social suffering, mental health, stigma, moral experience, caregiving, medical anthropology, humanitarianism in social sciences | Dr. Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthroplogy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include social suffering, mental health, stigma, moral experience, caregiving, medical anthropology, humanitarianism in social sciences. | China, Mental Health, Stigma, Dementia, Aging, East Asia |
Chunling Lu | HMS, Program in Global Health Economics and Social Change, BWH (Global Equity) | Health Infrastructure, Asia, global health finanace, population health | Dr. Chunling Lu is an Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Director of the Program in Global Health Economics and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. Her research is focused on measuring and analyzing global health finance and its effectiveness on population health outcomes at multiple levels. | Health Economics, Mental Health, Community Health Development, India, South Asia, Health Policy |
Giuseppe Raviola | HMS, Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change | Non-Communicable Diseases, Africa, Caribbean, Child mental health concerns, mental health, health care workers, clinical psychiatry, global mental health implementation, disaster psychiatry, ethnography and cultural anthropology, HIV/AIDs, mental health policy | Dr. Giuseppe Raviola is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the integration and application of quality improvement and public health approaches in innovating clinical practice, teaching and research in the domains of psychiatry and global mental health. | Mental Health, Haiti, Rwanda |
Gene Bukhman | HMS, Program in Global Noncommunicable Disease and Social Change, BWH (Global Equity) | Non-Communicable Diseases, Africa, Health Infrastructure, Non-communicable disease, injury burden, extreme poverty, poverty | Dr. Gene Bukhman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also Co-chair Lancet Commission Reframing NCDs and Injuries for the Poorest Billion. His research focuses on the NCD and injury (NCDI) burden among those living in extreme poverty, with a particular focus on low-income countries. | Rwanda, Heart Failure, Universal Health Coverage |
Andrew Ellner | HMS, Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change, BWH (Global Equity) | Health Infrastructure, Infectious Diseases, Health systems improvements | Dr. Andrew Ellner is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and Director of the Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. He is also an associate physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a primary care physician at the Phyllis Jen Center for Primary Care. His research focuses on health systems improvements for vulnerable populations. | Primary Care, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis |
Mercedes Becerra | HMS, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change | Infectious Diseases, drug-resistant tuberculosis, tuberculosis, child health, drug-resistant tuberculosis, contact investigation, TB, TB case detection, TB Treatment, | Dr. Mercedes Becerra is a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the treatment and epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis, as well as the burden of tuberculosis in the child and adult household contacts of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis and strategies to improve contact investigation, case detection, and treatment in high-risk households. | Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis |
Rebecca Luckett | HMS, Scottish Livingstone Hospital (Botswana) | Women's health, women empowerment, medical education, helath program development, implementation and evaluation, Angola, Kenya | Dr. Rebecca Luckett is an Obstetrician Gynecologist at BIDMC and at Princess Marina Hospital in Botswana. She is an Instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Botswana. She completed her Medical Degree and Masters in Public Health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine before pursuing her residency at the combined Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals, where she also served as Administrative Chief Resident. Her academic interests include cervical cancer screening and treatment and medical education in the global context. Her global health experience includes clinical training, public health programming, and implementation research. Her current work in Botswana is focused on building medical training programs, improving the quality of women’s cervical cancer screening services, and supervising US-based OBGYN residents in global health rotations. | |
Eugene Richardson | HMS, Weatherhead Center, BWH (Global Equity) | epidemic disease. Africa, Asia, anthropology, infectious disease, BWH, Global Health, Social medicine, Internal medicine | Eugene Richardson is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his MD from Cornell University Medical College and his PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases and geographic medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. | |
David Bloom | HSPH | Health Infrastructure, Primary, secondary and tertiary education, Education, Education in developing countries, health status, population dynamics, economic growth, labor economics, health demography, environment | Dr. David E. Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Bloom is an economist whose work focuses on health, demography, education, and labor. | Health Economics, Vaccines, Population Dynamics |
David Canning | HSPH | Maternal Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, family planning, Africa, Health Instrastructure, Infectious Diseases, Age structure, Aggregate economic activity, longevity | Dr. David Canning is the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, Deputy Director of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging, and a Professor of Economics and International Health. Dr. Canning has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. His research on demographic change focuses on the effect of changes in age structure on aggregate economic activity, and the effect of changes in longevity on economic behavior. He is co-principal investigator of the PPIUD study and leads the work in Sri Lanka. | Family Planning, Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, East Africa, Health Policy, United States, Malaria |
Richard Cash | HSPH | Health and Human Rights, Infectious Diseases, Health Infrastructure, Asia, Scaling up, health programs, Cholera, Diarrheal Disease, Oral rehydration Therapy, ORT, | Dr. Richard Cash is a Senior Lecturer on Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include etthical issues in global health, scaling up health programs and infectious disease treatment. | Medical Ethics, South Asia, India, Bangladesh, Oral Rehydration Therapy, Diarrheal Diseases, Cholera, Health Systems, Scaling Up Health Programs |
Wafaie Fawzi | HSPH | Maternal Health, Child Health and Development, Nutrition, Infectious Diseases, Africa, Asia, implementation science | Dr. Wafaie Fawzi is Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include maternal health, child health and development, infectious disease, malnutrition, and implementation science. | Neonatal Health, Infectious Diseases, Child Malnutrition, Wasting, Scaling Up Health Programs, Prenatal Malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Neonatal Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Ethiopia |
William Hsiao | HSPH | Health Infrastructure, Simulation model, US health sector, payment systems for physicians and hospitals, comparative health care systems, financing health care in developing nations, iteractions between economic development and health care. | Dr. William Hsiao is the K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His resesarch interests include universal health insurance, health systems reform, financing mechanisms, and health services delivery. | Health Economics, Health Systems, Universal Health Coverage, Financing, Health Systems Reform, Health Services Delivery |
Sheila Isanaka | HSPH | Nutrition, Maternal Health, Child Health and Development, Infectious Diseases, Africa, malnutrition and infectious disease, maternal nutrition, child development, health | Dr. Sheila Isanaka is Assistant Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition and the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on epidemiological studies designed to inform policy and practice in global nutrition, severe acute malnutrition, infectious diseases, and maternal and child health and development. | Maternal Nutrition, Niger, Wasting, Rotavirus, Nepal, Burkina Faso, Vaccines |
Goodarz Danaei | HSPH | Non-Communicable Diseases, risk factors, preventative interventions, non-communicable diseases, incidence, mortality | Dr. Goodarz Danaei is Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population and the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on estimating the effect of risk factors and preventive interventions on non-communicable disease incidence and mortality at the population level and the application of advanced methods of causal inference to questions of comparative effectiveness research from observational data in the context of cardiovascular diseases and other non-communicable diseases. | Preventive Care, Cardiovascular Diseases |
Lindsay Jaacks | HSPH | Non-Communicable Diseases, Nutrition, Asia, North America, Epidemiological transition, communicable diseases, non-communicable disease, nutritional and environmental esposures within food system, etiology, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease. | Dr. Jaacks is Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on improving our understanding of the global drivers of the epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases. She is especially interested in the complex interactions between nutritional and environmental exposures within the food system and the role that these interactions play in the etiology of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. | Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseaase, Pollution, China, India, United States |
Margaret E. Kruk | HSPH | Health Infrastructure, Africa, Asia, Health system performance, testing solutions, reframing health systems | Dr. Margaret E. Kruk is Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on analyzing health system performance, testing solutions, and reframing health systems, with the goal of improving health system quality and responsiveness in low- and middle-income countries. | Health Systems, Quality, Implentation Science, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Liberia, India |
Margaret McConnell | HSPH | Maternal Health, Child Health and Development, Health Infrastructure, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Africa, North America | Dr. Margaret McConnell is Associate Professor of Global Health Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research combines behavioral economics with field and laboratory experiments to understand and evaluate policies designed to change health behaviors, with a specific focus on maternal and child health. Her work focuses largely on urban areas with poor populations. | Quality, Family Planning, Kenya, United States |
Michael Reich | HSPH | Health Infratstructure, Asia, Non-Communicable Diseases, Health system strengthening ad reform, access to medicines and pharmaceutical policy, political economy, policymaking processes | Dr. Michael Reich is Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include health system strengthening and reform, access to medicines and pharmaceutical policy, and the political economy of policy-making processes. | Health Policy, Health Systems, Health Systems Reform, Pharmaceutical Policy, Access, Japan, Public-Private Partnerships, Nutrition Policy, Financing, Tobacco Control, |
Stéphane Verguet | HSPH | Health Infrastructure, Africa, Health decision science, priority setting, mathmatics, computational decision making, health policy design, Health economics, cost-effectiveness analysis, equity, health systems, Poverty alleviation | Dr. Stéphane Verguet is Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include Healthcare economics, cost-effectiveness analysis, equity, and health systems performance. He has also worked on the estimation of non-health benefits, particularly the poverty alleviation. benefits, of health policies and interventions. | Health Systems, Health Policy, Implementation Science, Ethiopia, Health System Performance, Tobacco Control |
Christopher Sudfeld | HSPH | Maternal Health, Child Health and Development, Infectious Diseases, nutrition, infection, maternal health, childheath, low resource settings | Dr. Christopher Sudfeld is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Nutrition in the Department of Global Health and Population and the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interest is the interaction of nutrition and infection on maternal and child health in resource-limited settings. His three areas of focus are 1) Randomized trials of nutrition and infection interventions; 2) Observational studies examining the role of nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life in child development and long-term outcomes in late childhood, adolescence and adulthood; and 3) Research capacity building at partner organizations in epidemiologic methods and biostatistics. | HIV/AIDS, Infant Mortality, Antiretroviral Therapy, Prenatal Malnutrition |
Michelle A. Williams | HSPH | Reproductive epidemiology, perinatal epidemiology, etiology | Dr. Michelle A. Williams is Dean of the Faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, She is also Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests include reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. Her primary research goal is to use biological and molecular biomarkers as objective measures of exposure and/or validated pre-clinical proximal determinants of discrete outcomes of clinical, public and global health importance. | |
Aisha Yousafzai | HSPH | Child Health, Child Development, Health Infrastructure, Asia, Child, caregiver, child outcomes, nutrition, community health services, Community health systems | Dr. Aisha Yousafzai is Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests are early childhood development, especially the imlementation of research to improve child and caregiving related outcomes. | Early Child Development, Pakistan, Evaluation Science, Community Development, |
M. Omar Rahman | HSPH | Demography and Population Dynamics, Social Determinants of Health, Infectious Diseases, social networks, physical health, mental health, socio-economic | Dr. M, Omar Rahman is an Adjunct Professor of Demography and Epidemiology in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include the impact of social and kinship networks on the physical and mental health of adults and the elderly, the socio-economic determinants of health outcomes, the determinants of health services use by adults and the elderly in developing countries, and women’s health over the life cycle. | Aging, Social Networks, Bangladesh, Fertility, Diarrheal Diseases |
Mary Wilson | HSPH | Infectious Diseases,travelers and immigrants, migration and health, Immigrant health, expression of infectious disease, tuberculosis, vaccines | Dr. Mary Wilson is an Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include infections in travelers and immigrants, role of migration and trade in appearance and expression of infectious disease, tuberculosis and use of vaccines in travelers. | Tuberculosis, Vaccine, Migration |
Norman Daniels | HSPH | Health and Human Rights, Moral epistemology, theory of justice, Justice, egalitarianism, social responsibility, Universal coverage, health systems, health insurance, | Dr. Norman Daniels is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Emeritus in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include moral epistemology, theory of justice and Rawls' complex egalitarianism, justice and health, individual and social responsibility for health, limit setting in universal coverage systems, justice and intergenerational equity, ethics and health sector reform | Medical Ethics, Health Sector Reform |
Allan Hill | HSPH | Middle East, Africa, Demography and Population Dynamics, health, mortality, fertility, Arab, Africa | Dr. Allan Hill is the Andelot Professor of Demography, Emeritus in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focus has been understanding the health, mortality and fertility health transitions and their determinants in the Arab World and West Africa. | Mortality, Fertility, The Gambia, Egypt |
Nancy Krieger | HSPH | Social Determinants of Health, Conceptual frameworks, analyze health, improve health, theory of disease, etiologic research, societal determinants, population health, health inequalities, methodologic research, health inequities | Dr. Nancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. Her research focuses on conceptual frameworks to understand, analyze and improve health, including ecosocial theory of disease distribution and a focus on embodiment and equity; etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequalities; and methodologic research on improving monitoring of health inequities. | Discrimination, Race, Ethnicity, Segregation, Gun Violence |
Daniel Neafsey | HSPH | malaria, mosquito vectors, pathogen polymorphism, vaccine, vaccine design, drug resistance mechanisms, clinical genotyping, disease transmission, genomic protocols, informatic tools to address key questions in infectious disease and global health | Daniel Neafsey’s laboratory studies the evolutionary genomics of malaria parasites and mosquito vectors. Prior to becoming a faculty member at Harvard, he led a research group at the Broad Institute, where he retains a role as Associate Director of the Broad Institute’s Genomic Center for Infectious Disease. He is excited by the potential for new technology and data to turn the tide against diseases like malaria. | |
Gary Adamkiewicz | HSPH | Housing-related exposure disparities; evidence-based interventions; healthy urbanization; future of food, Global health food, Food insecurities, Food desserts, Community health, | ||
John Spengler | HSPH | Transit health, Air pollution, pollution health effects, sustainability, Enviromental pollutants, | John “Jack” Spengler, co-founder and Principal of EH&E, has dedicated his career to research in the areas of personal monitoring, air pollution health effects, indoor air pollution, and a variety of sustainability issues. Jack brings more than 30 years’ experience in developing and managing large-scale, multidisciplinary studies to assess human exposures to environmental pollutants. He is well known for developing state-of-the-art sampling and analysis methods and receptor modeling techniques. Jack has worked closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy on many of their human health risk studies involving airborne particulates. Additionally, Jack is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, as well as the Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a Senior Faculty Advisor of the Sustainability and Environmental Management Program at the Harvard Extension School. Jack has been extensively published in peer-reviewed journals and articles and is considered one of the premier authorities on personal exposure to air pollutants. | |
Jane Kim | HSPH | mathematical modeling, health policy issues; women's health, Statistics, health policy, program effectiveness, | Dr. Kim’s research focuses on the development and application of mathematical modeling methods to evaluate health policy issues related to women’s health. She has developed and used models to perform cost-effectiveness analyses of cervical cancer screening strategies in the U.S., Europe, Hong Kong, and less developed regions. Her methodological interests include integrating different methods of operations research to inform health decision-making in low-resource settings, such as packaging health services at opportune moments and quantifying the impacts of budget and human resource constraints on program effectiveness and feasibility. She has won awards for her presentations at annual meetings held by the Society for Medical Decision Making and the International Papillomavirus Society. Dr. Kim holds a Master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health (2001) and a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Decision Sciences from Harvard University (2005). | |
Tyler VanderWeele | HSPH | Epidemiology, religion, spirituality, philosophy, biostatistics, finance, biostatistics, | Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University, and 2019-2020 George Eastman Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance and applied economics, and biostatistics. His research concerns methodology for distinguishing between association and causation in observational studies, and the use of statistical and counterfactual ideas to formalize and advance epidemiologic theory and methods. His empirical research spans psychiatric, perinatal, and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health, including both religion and population health and the role of religion and spirituality in end-of-life care. He is the recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. He has published over three hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is author of the book Explanation in Causal Inference, published by Oxford University Press. | |
Jennifer Allen | HSPH | Nursing, Global health nursing, Cancer, womens health, child health, community health, Dana- farber, Nurse | Dr. Allen received her Bachelor's degree in nursing and Master's degree in Community Health Nursing from Boston College. In addition, she has a Master's and Doctoral Degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She began her nursing career in community health in international and domestic settings. This work sparked her interest in the roles of social, economic and environmental forces on health. For the past 15 years, she has been an investigator in the Center for Community-Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her research has focused on the development and evaluation of community-based approaches to cancer prevention and control among medically underserved populations. She has conducted randomized trials of interventions designed to promote screening for breast and cervical cancers. In addition, she has developed computer-tailored interventions to promote informed decision-making for prostate cancer screening. Currently, she is studying interventions to promote uptake of the HPV vaccine among young women and parents of young girls. Dr. Allen has received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and other foundations to conduct this work in churches, worksites, neighborhoods and other community settings. Dr. Allen is a member of the American Public Health Association, the Massachusetts Public Health Association, the American Nurses Association, and the Massachusetts Nurses' Association. | |
Katherine Baicker | HSPH | Health Infrastructure, Organizational change, productivity, economics, management, private insurance, public insurance, economics, | Dr. Katherine Baicker is an Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also the Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and holds the Emmett Dedmon professorship. Professor Baicker’s research focuses primarily on the factors that drive the distribution, generosity, and effectiveness of public and private health insurance, with a particular focus on health insurance finance and the effect of reforms on the distribution and quality. | Financing, Insurance, Public Health Insurance, Private Health Insurance, Medicaid |
Sebastian Bauhoff | HSPH | Health care financing, service delivery, access to care, efficiency and quality of care in low and middle-income countries | Dr. Bauhoff’s research focuses on innovations in health care financing and service delivery that can increase access, efficiency and quality of care in low and middle-income countries. He also examines ways to improve the design and implementation of health care policies and programs. His recent work includes empirical impact evaluations of provider and insurance payment systems, such as performance-based financing, and of demand-side interventions to improve access and risk-protection of poor households. Many of his projects are in collaboration with decision-makers in local or national governments, or with international organizations such as the World Bank. He has conducted research in Africa and Asia, including Cambodia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tajikistan. | Health Economics, Financing |
Jacqueline Bhabha | HSPH | Migrant Populations, Human Rights, Child Protection | Jacqueline Bhabha is FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London. | Human Rights, Migrants, Children |
Kevin Croke | HSPH | Political Economy of Health, Service Delivery | Kevin Croke is an assistant professor of global health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Previously I was a researcher in the World Bank Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) group. In 2014-2015 I was a post doctoral fellow in political economy and research associate at HSPH. My work has two main areas of focus. In one strand of work, I use qualitative methods to study the political economy of health in developing countries. In another set of projects, I use empirical methods, including experimental and quasi-experimental approaches, to study political economy and public service delivery in developing countries. | Health Economics, Service Delivery |
Goodarz Danaei | HSPH | Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Causal inference and electronic health records | Dr. Danaei received his medical degree from the Tehran School of Medical Sciences and his Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in Epidemiology and Global Health and Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His global health research focuses on quantifying the population-level impact of risk factors and preventive interventions on cardiovascular disease, globally with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. His epidemiological research applies advanced methods of causal inference to questions of comparative effectiveness research from electronic health records and other observational data. | Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Electronic Health Records |
Christopher Golden | HSPH | Nutrition, Planetary Health, Biodiversity oss, Climate change, and Ecosystem transformation | Christopher Golden is an ecologist and epidemiologist interested in the human health impacts of environmental change, specifically in the context of global trends in biodiversity loss, climate change, and ecosystem transformation. | Nutrition, Planetary Health |
Muhammad Ali Pate | HSPH | Nutrtion, Leadership | Muhammad Ali Pate is the Global Director, Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank and the Director of Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), based in Washington DC. Dr. Pate, a U.S. and Nigerian national, was until recently the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy, based in the UK, and prior to that held several senior positions, including that of Minister of State for Health in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was previously in the World Bank Group where he joined as a Young Professional in 2000 and worked on health issues in several regions including Africa and the East Asia and Pacific. | Nutrtion, Leadership, Nigeria |
Shekhar Saxena | HSPH | Mental Health | Shekhar Saxena is Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Havard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A psychiatrist by training, he has served in the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1998. From 2010 to 2018 he was the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the WHO. | Mental Health |
Caroline Buckee | HSPH (Epidemiology), CCDD | Mathmatics, Data science, Infectious disease, pathogens, malaria, vulnerable populations, | Dr. Caroline Buckee joined Harvard School of Public Health in the summer of 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. In 2013, Dr. Buckee was named the Associate Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. | |
Christopher Duggan | HSPH, Boston Children's Hospital, Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation (CAIR), HMS | Nutrition, Infectious Diseases, Nutritional management, diarrhea, micronutrients, respiratory infections, biomarkers, environment, enteric dysfunction, metabolism, catabolic diseases | Dr. Christpher Duggan is Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include the nutritional management of acute and persistent diarrhea, micronutrient trials in developing countries to prevent diarrhea and respiratory infections, the definition of biomarkers of environmental enteric dysfunction, and general aspects of energy and protein metabolism in catabolic diseases. | Micronutrient, Diarrheal Diseases, Oral Rehydration Therapy |
Tamarra James Todd | HSPH, BWH | Maternal Health, Environment and Health, Social Determinants of Health, adverse maternal health outcomes, racial disparities, chemical exposures, adverse health outcomes, pregnancy, postpartum, women health | Dr. Tamarra James-Todd is the Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include evaluating of the role of environmental chemicals on adverse maternal health outcomes; assessing racial and ethnic disparities in environmental chemical exposures and adverse health outcomes; and developing pregnancy and postpartum interventions to improve women's chronic disease risk | Race, Ethnicity, Pregnancy Complications, Type 2 Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes |
Joseph Rhatigan | HSPH, BWH (Global Equity), HMS | Health Infrastructure, Infectious Diseases, Global health, patient education, treatment of HIV in resource-limited settings | Dr. Joseph Rhatigan is an Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also associate chief of the Division of Global Health Equity and director of the Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency Program. His research interests include examining the delivery of health services in low-resource settings through case studies. | Health Human Resources, Financing, Health Systems, Health Economics, HIV/AIDS |
Stephen Resch | HSPH, Center for Health Decision Science | Analytic approaches, health policy, health program management, health policy, health management. | Stephen Resch, MPH, PhD, is a Lecturer on Health Decision Science in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Deputy Director of the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Resch’s research focuses on advancing the use of decision analytic approaches in health policy making and health program management. He holds an MPH from Yale University and a PhD from Harvard University. | |
Ankur Pandya | HSPH, Center for Health Decision Science | Applied decision science studies evaluating CVD policies; connecting cost effectiveness analysis with broader value based health policies being implemented or piloted in US health reform; methodological topics within disease simulation modeling (calibration, validation, value of information) | Dr. Pandya’s interests include: 1) applied decision science studies evaluating cardiovascular disease policies; 2) connecting cost-effectiveness analysis with broader value-based health policies being implemented or piloted in U.S. health reform; and 3) methodological topics within disease simulation modeling. Before joining HPM, Dr. Pandya served as Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research with a secondary appointment in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College from 2012-2014. He graduated from the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy in 2012, and holds an MPH from Yale University in Health Policy and Administration and a BS from Cornell University in Nutritional Sciences. Prior to entering the PhD program, he worked for two years at a health economics/outcomes research consulting firm. He received the “Outstanding Paper by a Young Investigator Award” from the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) in 2016, and was one of three recipients of the “Teaching Citation Award” from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2017. | |
Melani Cammett | HSPH, Center for Middle Eastern Studies | Health Infrastructure, Middle East, Governance provision, social service provision, identity politics, institutional arrangements, Middle East | Dr. Melani Cammett is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She is also Chair of the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies and Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on governance and the politics of social service provision by public, private and non-state actors, identity politics, and the historical influences of economic and social development with an empirical focus in the Middle East. | Primary Care, Lebanon, |
James Hammitt | HSPH, Center for Risk Analysis, Center for Health Decision Science | quantitative methods, health policy, environmental policy,management of long term environmental, contingent valuation, health utility methods, enviromental risks, | Professor Hammitt’s research concerns the development and application of quantitative methods—including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis—to health and environmental policy. Topics include management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion, evaluation of ancillary benefits and countervailing risks associated with risk-control measures, and characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks using revealed-preference, stated-preference, and health-utility methods. He has served on six National Academies of Sciences panels, more than a dozen advisory committees to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies, is a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and in 2015 received the SRA’s Distinguished Achievement Award for “for extraordinary achievement in science or public policy relating to risk analysis.” | |
Kenneth Mayer | HSPH, CFAR | Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS | Dr. Kenneth Mayer is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute. His research interests include international HIV/AIDS, Gay and Bisexual Men’s Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Microbicides, PrEP, PEP, Vaccines, Secondary Prevention, HIV/AIDS Treatment, and Antibiotic Use and Molecular Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance | HIV/AIDS, PrEP, Vaccines, PEP |
Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip | HSPH, China Health Partnership | Health Infrastructure, Asia, Design, systemic health care, improve affordbility, equitable access, health care delivery, Healthcare providers | Dr. Winnie Yip is Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also Director of the school wide China Health Partnership. Her research focuses on: 1) the design, implementation and evaluation of systemic health care interventions, for improving affordable and equitable access to and the efficiency and quality of health care delivery, especially for the poor; and 2) modeling and evaluating the effects of incentives on the behavior of providers (organization and individual) and patients. | Access, Health Systems, Financing, Health Care Management, Quality, China, Health Economics, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Evaluation Science |
Marcia Castro | HSPH, David Rockerfeller Center for Latina American Studies (Brazil Studies Program), Center for geographic analysis | Infectious Diseases, Africa, Demography, Population Dynamics, Identification risks, vector-borne diseases, determinants of malaria transmission, Malaria. Expansion of the Brazilian Amazon frontier, social and environmental impacts, large-scale development projects, urbanization, spatial analysis, population dynamics, mortality models | Dr. Marcia Castro is Andelot Professor of Demography and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population. Her research focuses on the social, biological, and environmental risks associated with vector-borne diseases in the tropics, modeling determinants of malaria transmission, expansion of the Brazilian Amazon frontier and the social and environmental impacts of large-scale development projects implemented in the region, urbanization and health, use of spatial analysis in the Social Sciences, and population dynamics and mortality models. | Vector-Borne Diseases, Malaria, Brazil, Urbanization, Tanzania, Ghana |
Lorelei Mucci | HSPH, DF/HCC, HMS | North America, Non-Communicable Diseases, Europe, Cancer epidemiology | Dr. Lorelei Mucci is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epigdemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on cancer epidemiology. | United States, Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Sweden, Norway, Denmark |
David Cutler | HSPH, FAS, HKS | Health Infrastructure, Health economics, public economics | Dr. David Cutler is Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor Cutler holds secondary appointments at the Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health. His research interests are in Healthcare economics and public economics. | Health Economics, Health Policy, Quality |
Jennifer Leaning | HSPH, FXB Center for Human Rights | Health Rights, Human Rights, Public health, medical ethics, response to war, response to disaster, international law, humanitarian law, global health crisis, human security, migration, conflict | Dr. Jennifer Leaning is Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Global Health and Population. Her research interests include public health, medical ethics, and early warning in response to war and disaster, human rights and international humanitarian law in crisis settings, and problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict. | Medical Ethics, International Humanitarian Law, Forced Migration/Displacement, Humanitarian Crisis, Disaster Preparedness |
Alicia Yamin | HSPH, FXB Center for Human Rights | Health Rights, Human Rights, North America, Europe, Latin America, South America, conceptualization of the right to health in both economic and social terms | Dr. Alicia Yamin is an Adjunct Lecturer on Global Health and Population in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include human rights, health and development. | Development, Peru, Mexico, |
Nicolas Menzies | HSPH, Harvard Center for Health Decision Science | Infectious Diseases, Africa, Health Infrastructure, Decision science, infectious diseases, design of disease, disease control programs | Dr. Nicholas Menzies is Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also part of the core faculty of the Harvard Center for Health Decision Science. His research interests include examining infectious disease control policy in high burden settings, especially the intersection of HIV and TB epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa. | HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Sub-Saharan Africa, Health Systems, Vaccines, |
Till Bärnighausen | HSPH, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies | Infectious Diseases, Non-Communicable Diseases, Community healh, Community Health Workers, initiatives, Primary Care, Nurses, HIV, chronic conditions | Dr. Till Bärnighausen is an Adjunct Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Faculty Affiliate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. His research interests include developing and testing population health interventions that address large healthcare needs in poor countries, in particular for HIV and other chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. | HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, Hypertension, LMICs, Health Human Resources, Community Health Development |
Lisa Berkman | HSPH, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (Director) | Demography Dynamics, Population Dyanmics, Non-Communicable Diseases, Social Determinants of Health, Health Inequities, Socio-economic status, race, Ethnicity, Aging, Social networks, Isolation | Dr. Lisa Berkman is the director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) and Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses extensively on social and policy influences on health outcomes. Some of her interests include understanding inequalities in health related to socioeconomic status, different racial and ethnic groups, and social networks, support and isolation. | Aging, Health Inequalities, Dementia, Alzheimer's, HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Social Support, Mental Health |
Arthur Dyck | HSPH, HDS | Health Rights, Human Rights, Moral knowledge, bioethics | Dr. Arthur Dyck is Professor of Ethics, Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School and Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics, Emeritus in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include ethical theory, with special application to questions of moral knowledge, human rights, and bioethics. | Medical Ethics |
Michael VanRooyen | HSPH, HHI, BWH | Health Rights, Human Rights, International emergency medicine, humanitarian assistance, global crisis response | Dr. Michael VanRooyen is the Lavine Family Professor of Humanitarian Studies in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. His research interests include | Humanitarian Crisis, Emergency Medicine, Disaster Preparedness and Response |
Patrick Vinck | HSPH, HHI, BWH | Sub-Saharan Africa, Non-Communicable Diseases, Resilience, peacebuilding, social cohesion, mass violence, conflicts, natural disasters, Medical Ethics | Dr. Patrick Vinck is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include | Mental Health, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic, Disaster Response and Preparedness, Humanitarian Crisis |
Stephanie Kayden | HSPH, HHI, HMS, BWH | Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Disaster response, humanitarian assistance, international emergency medicine | Dr. Stephanie Kayden is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also Vice Chair for Strategic Partnerships and Chief of the Division of International Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her research interests include emergency medical systems, humanitarian aid and disaster response | Emergency Medicine, Humanitarian Crisis, Disaster Preparedness, Bhutan, Fiji, Nepal, Germany, Serbia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Liberia, Cameroon, Japan |
Vikram Patel | HSPH, HMS | Non-Communicable Diseases, Health Infrastructure, policy, mental disorders, mental health, mental health interventions, health workers, training programs, research, Leaders, leaders in Global health, mental health | Dr. Vikram Patel is the Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include: (1) generating policy relevant evidence on the burden and impact of mental disorders; (2) developing and evaluating mental health interventions for delivery by non-specialist and lay health workers; (3) developing training programs to build research capacity and leadership in global mental health; and (4) communicating research to diverse audiences to act on this evidence. | Mental Health, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Training, Health Communication, Mental Health Communication, Healthy Policy, LMICs |
Eric Rimm | HSPH, HMS | Nutrition, Non-Communicable Diseases, diet, obesity, chronic disease; alcohol, whole grains, micronutrients, polyphenols | Dr. Eric Rimm is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition in the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include the health effects of diet and lifestyle in relation to obesity and chronic disease; and the effect of moderate consumption of alcohol, whole grains, micronutrients, and polyphenols . | Micronutrients, Obesity, Nutrition Policy, Alcohol, Cardiovascular Disease |
Paul Farmer | HSPH, HMS, Division of Global Health Equity, BWH (Global Equity), Partners in Health | Health Rights, Human Rights, Social Determinants of Health, Infectious Diseases, Health Infrastructure, Africa, Health and human rights, social inequalities, distribution, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, resource-poor settings, primary health care systems | Dr. Paul Farmer is Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include health and human rights and the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases. | Universial Health Coverage, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Ebola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Child Marriage, Quality, Surgery |
David Christiani | HSPH, HMS, Harvard Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health, MGH | Environment and Health, Non-Communicable Diseases, pollutants, genetic and acquired susceptibility, environmental exposures, acute diseases, chronic diseases | Dr. David Christiani is the Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard T,H, Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include the impact of exposures to various pollutants on health and the interactions between host factors, and environmental exposures in producing acute and chrnoic diseases. | Air Pollution, Pollution, Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Skin Cancer, Cancer, Respiratory Diseases |
Phuong Pham | HSPH, HMS, HHI | Health rights, Human Rights, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Asia, Middle East, epidemiology, evaluation research, technology, Conflct, Uganda, Iraq, Cambodia, Colombia , mass violence, Violence, humanitarian crisis | Dr. Phuong Pham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the Director of Evaluation and Implementation Science at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). Her research interests include designing and implementing epidemiologic and evaluation research, technology solutions, and educational programs in on-going and post-conflict countries. | Humanitarian Response, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Central African Republic, Iraq, Cambodia, Colombia |
Paul Gregg Greenough | HSPH, HMS, HHI, BWH | Health Rights, Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Epiemiology, public health, conflict, | Dr. Paul Gregg Greenough is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the Research Director of the Division of International Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Programs at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His research intrerests include food security and nutrition, morbidity and mortality of displacement, human security and human rights, disaster preparedness and response, infectious disease surveillance, health in mass gatherings, and post-crisis health information systems. | Emergency Medicine, Humanitarian Crisis, Forced Migration/Displacement, Food Security, Disaster Preparedness |
Thomas Burke | HSPH, HMS, MGH | Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Nutrition, Global health, human rights, public health and safety, malnutrition, maternal health, human trafficking | Dr. Thomas Burke is an attending physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine. He is also Chief of the Division of Global Health and Human Rights and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His clinical interests include global health, human right, public health and safety, malnutrition, maternal health, and anti-trafficking measures. | Quality, Safety, Human Trafficking, Malnutrition |
Thomas Bossert | HSPH, International Health Systems Program (Director) | Maternal Health, Sexual Health, Reproductive Health, Africa, North America, Health Infrastructure, Policy analysis, organizational and institutional analysis, decentralization, human resources strategy, public relations, private relations, community development, project design and evaluation, international development, Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Central Eurpoe, Eastern Europe | Dr. Thomas J. Bossert is the director of the International Health Systems Program in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His specialties include policy analysis, organizational and institutional analysis, decentralization, human resources strategy, public/private relations, community development, regulation, and project design and evaluation. | Contraception, Family Planning, Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, East Africa, Health Policy, United States, Malaria |
Jessica Cohen | HSPH, Jameel-Poverty Action Lab | Maternal Health, Africa, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Family Planning, Contraception, Family Planning, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, East Africa, Policy, United States, Malaria | Dr. Jessica Cohen is Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal, and Alexander S. Beal Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research examines maternal and child health programs and policies, as well as preventative healthcare seeking in sub-Saharan Africa and in the United States. | Contraception, Family Planning, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, East Africa, Policy, United States, Malaria |
Laura Kubzansky | HSPH, Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, JPB Environmental Health Fellows Program | Non-Communicable Diseases, Social Determinants of Health, Environment and Health, Child Health and Development, Demography and Population Dynamics, Environment and Health, stress, heart disease, social status, health, stress, emotion psychological factors; biological mechanisms, linking emotions, social relationship, childhood environments, resilience, healthy agiging, psychosocial stress, environmental exposure | Dr. Laura Kubzansky is the Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include the effects of stress and emotion on heart disease; relationship between social status, health, stress, emotion and other psychological factors; biological mechanisms linking emotions, social relationship and health; relationships between early childhood environments, resilience, and healthy aging; and interactions between psychosocial stress, environmental exposure and health | Cardiovascular Diseases, Aging, Early Childhood Development, Stress, Air Pollution, Lead Exposure, Resilience |
K. "Vish" Viswanath | HSPH, McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Health Communication Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Lung Cancer Disparities Center | Health Infrastructure, Asia, communication inequalities, povery, health disparities, community-based, research, health disaparities | Dr. K. "Vish" Viswanath is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is also the Faculty Director of the Health Communication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Director of the Center for Translational Communication Science, Director of the Harvard Chan India Research Center and Co-Director of the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness. His research focus is translational communication science to influence public health policy and practice, and his primary interest is documenting the relationship between communication inequalities, poverty and health disparities, and knowledge translation to address health disparities. | Health Communication, Health Policy, Health Systems, China, Cancer, Tobacco Control |
Hilarie Cranmer | HSPH, MGH Center for Global Health | Health Rights, Human Rights, Public health, global health, disaster medicine, humanitarian medicine | Dr. Hilarie Cranmer is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is also Director of Disaster Response at the MGH Center for Global Health. Her research interests include international disaster relief, global health, and professionalization of humanitarian assistance. | Humanitarian Crisis, Malawi, Haiti, Indonesia, Emergency Medicine, Disaster Preparedness |
Rifat Atun | HSPH, National Centre for Infection Prevention and Management at Imperial College London, Cambridge University Health Protection Research Unit for Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection | Health Infrastructure, Non-Communicable Diseases, Healthcare Reforms, Health Systems, Health Innovations, Financing in Global Health | Dr Rifat Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University, and the Director of Global Health Systems Cluster at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Professor Atun’s research focuses on the design and implementation of health systems reforms and their impact on outcomes. His research also explores adoption and diffusion of innovations in health systems (e.g. health technologies, disease control programmes, and primary healthcare reforms), and innovative financing in global health. | Health Systems, Health Economics, Health Systems Reform, Financing, Health Care Management, Cancer |
Martin Lajous | HSPH, National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP), Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health at the French National Institue for Medical Resesrch | North America, Nutrition, Non-Communicable Diseases, Nutrition, cardiovascular health, epidemiological methods | Dr. Martin Lajous is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include nutrition, cardiovascular health and epidemiologic methods. | Mexico, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes |
Daniel Wikler | HSPH, PhD Program in Health Policy, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard Program in Ethics and Health/Center for Bioethics | Health Rights, Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, health resources, health research, Ethics, ethical dilemmas, public health ethics, end-of-life, decision-making | Dr. Daniel Wikler is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also co-director of the Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research at the School of Public HealthHis research interests include ethical issues in population and international health, including the allocation of health resources, health research involving human subjects, and ethical dilemmas arising in public health practice. | Medical Ethics, HIV/AIDS, Health Systems, Health Systems Reform, Health Human Resources |
Joshua Salomon | HSPH, Prevention Policy Modeling Lab | Health Infrastructure, health outcomes, modeling patterns, global mortality, disease burden, health policies, interventions | Dr. Joshua Salomon is an Adjunct Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab. His research interests include measurement and valuation of health outcomes, modeling patterns and trends in major causes of global mortality and disease burden, evaluation of health policies and interventions. | Health Policy Evaluatiuon, Measurement of Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Health Systems |
Stephen P. Marks | HSPH, Program on Human Rights in Development | Health, Human Rights, Terrorism, cultural rights, health access, education | Dr. Stephen P. Marks is François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include the right to health, global health governance, integrating human rights into sustainable human development; mental health; poverty; tobacco control; and the right to development. His earlier research focused on biotechnology and human rights; impunity for mass atrocities; terrorism and human rights; cultural rights; access to medicines, and human rights education. | Humanitarian Crises, Right to Health, Development, Medical Ethics, Terrorism, |
Claude Bruderlein | HSPH, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, HKS | Health rights, Human Rights, Humanitarian, negotiation, law, humanitarian law, emergency response, information technology, | Claude Bruderlein, is an Adjunct Lecturer on Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Senior Researcher at the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. He also holds a faculty appointment at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His research interests include humanitarian negotiation, the development of humanitarian law, the promotion of human security strategies, as well as the role of information technologies in emergency response. | International Humanitarian Law |
Sema Sgaier | HSPH, Surgo Foundation | Health Infrastructure, Health Human Resources, Financing, Health Services Delivery, | Dr. Sema Sgaier is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include health human resources, financing, and health services delivery. | Health Human Resources, Financing, Health Services Delivery, Health Systems |
Jesse Bump | HSPH, Takemi Program in International Health (Executive Director) | Health Infrastructure, Historical, Determinants of health, Politics, Economics | Dr. Jesse B. Bump is Executive Director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Lecturer on Global Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He leads the global health field of study in the Master of Public Health degree and teaches on the political economy of global health. His research focuses on the intellectual ecology of global health, examining the historical, political, and economic forces that are among the most fundamental determinants of ill health, and the most significant contextual factors that shape institutions and the approaches they embrace. | Health Economics, Health Systems, Universal Health Coverage, Financing, Global Health History |
Ole Norheim | HSPH, University of Bergen | Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, theories of justice, population ethics, low- and high-income countries, health systems, universal health coverage | Dr. Ole Norheim is an Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include distributive theories of justice, population ethics, fair priority setting in low- and high-income countries, health systems, and universal health coverage. | Universal Health Coverage, Medical Ethics, Health Systems |
S.V. Subramanian | HSPH, Weatherhead Center, Institute of Quantitative Social Science | population health, Child health, India, Public Policy, Nutrition, Statistics | A Professor of Population Health and Geography at Harvard University, and Director of a University-wide Initiative on Applied Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences. He was also the Founding Director of Graduate Studies for the interdisciplinary PhD program in Population Health Sciences. He received his under- and post-graduate training at the University of Delhi, and completed his PhD in geography from the University of Portsmouth, UK. Working in collaborations with scholars across the world, he has published over 670 articles, book chapters, and books in the field of social and contextual determinants of health, health inequalities in India, and applied multilevel statistical models. He has consistently been included in the Highly Cited Researchers (top 1% of cited publications in Web of Science) list since 2015. His current research interests is developing and applying data science approaches for precision public policy in the context of health, nutrition and development. As an educator, Subu was the first to develop a course on the concept and application of multilevel statistical methods at Harvard, which he has been successfully teaching at Harvard since 2001, as well as around the world. He has advised over 100 masters, doctoral and postdoctoral students as mentor, academic advisor and dissertation committee member. Subu is the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the international journal Social Science & Medicine (SSM), in addition to be being a Co-Senior Editor for the social epidemiology office of SSM. He is also the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of a new journal SSM – Population Health. He is an editorial consultant to The Lancet, and an international advisory board member for the Lancet Global Health. | |
Barry Bloom | HSPH, Wellcome Trust Institute for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scholars program, KwaZulu Natal Institute for Research in Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) program. | Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, Global Health, Policy, Immunology, Infectious diseases, vaccines, global health policy, immunology | Dr. Barry Bloom is Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His interests include infectious diseases, vaccines and global health policy. His research has been primarily focused on the immunology and pathogenesis of leprosy and of tuberculosis, as well as vaccines. | Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Vaccines |
Ana Langer | HSPH, Women and Health Initiative, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Commission | Demography and Population Dynamics, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Reproductive health, maternal health, maternal mortality, evidence into policies and programs, quality of health care for women and families, women, families | Dr. Ana Langer is Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Coordinator of the Dean's Special Initiative on Women and Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include reproductive and maternal health, the translation of evidence into policies and programs, the improvement of quality of health care for women and families. | Aging, Family Planning, Economic Behavior |
Louise Ivers | MGH Center for Global Health, HMS; Harvard Global Health Institute | Expansion of healthcare access for the poor, HIV/AIDS, food insecurity, cholera treatment and prevention, Infectious diseases, ireland, MGH, BWH | Dr. Louise C. Ivers, MD, MPH is the Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Executive Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Global Health. Dr. Ivers is also the David Bangsberg Endowed Chair in Global Health Equity at MGH and a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ivers has spent her career providing care to the rural and urban poor and engaging in patient-oriented investigation that offer solutions to barriers to healthcare. Dr. Ivers has contributed to published research articles on HIV/AIDS, food insecurity, and cholera treatment and prevention and is involved in global policy and advocacy. | |
Andrea Ciaranello | MGH, HMS | Use of simulation models, long-term clinical outcomes, cost-effectiveness, HIV-infected women, HIV- Infected children, HIV infection, clinical outcomes, Child health, womens health, infectious disease. | Dr. Ciaranello is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an infectious disease physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she directs the Perinatal Infectious Disease Program. Her research interests involve the use of simulation models to examine the long-term clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of strategies to care for HIV-infected women and their children, including programs to prevent, diagnose, and manage perinatal HIV infection. She has worked closely with the World Health Organization to develop new pediatric HIV guidelines since 2012, and serves on the US Department of Health and Human Services Perinatal HIV Guidelines Panel. Dr. Ciaranello earned an AB from Harvard College (1996), an MD from the Yale School of Medicine (2001), and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health (2008). | |
Alexandra Shields | MGH, HMS | Health Infrastructure, Social Determinants of Health, Health and Human Rights, Technology and Health, health disparities, | Dr. Alexandra Shields is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research interests include issues related to the quality provided to underserved populations, heatlh disparities, and the challenges of clinical integration of new genetic technologies. | Health Equity, Genetic Technologies, Pharmacogenetic Cancer Treatment, Race, Ethnicity, |
Sunil Amrith | Weatherhead Center, Center for History and Economics, FAS (South Asian Studies, History) | Transregional movement, history, History of public health, History of poverty, history of migration, environmental history, South and Southeast Asia | Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. His research is on the trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions. Areas of particular interest include the history of public health and poverty, the history of migration, and environmental history. His most recent work has been on the Bay of Bengal as a region connecting South and Southeast Asia. He has a PhD in History (2005) from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a Research Fellow of Trinity College (2004-6). | |
Neal Baer | HMS | Nutrition, Child Health and Development, Infectious Diseases, Non-Communicable Diseases, adolescent health, global health. Teen Pregnancy, AIDS, Teen Drug Abuse, Nutrition | Dr. Neal Baer is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include adolescent health, teen pregnany, HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse and nutrition. | Adolescent Health, Teen Pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, Mental Health |
Timothy Rebbeck | Center for Global Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Associate Director for Cancer Equity and Engagement, Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center; Zhu Family Center for Cancer Prevention, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health | Etiology, prevention of cancer, cancer disparities, global health | Dr. Timothy Rebbeck’s studies the etiology and prevention of cancer, with an emphasis on cancer disparities and global health. He is the Associate Director for Cancer Equity and Engagement in the Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center, and is the founding director of the Zhu Family Center for Cancer Prevention at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He also leads the international Men of African Descent and Carcinoma of the Prostate (MADCaP) network. | Cancer, Dana-Farber, Zhu Family Center |
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