GHLI - Key Persons
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- Co - Director
- Professor of Management, and Professor
- Professor of Public Health
Professor of Public Health (Health Policy), Professor of Management, and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Co-director, Public Health Modeling Concentration; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
The objective that guides Dr. Paltiel's scholarly activities is to promote a reasoned approach to decision making and resource allocation in public health and medicine. Trained in the field of Operations Research, Dr. Paltiel designs and implements policy models and cost-effectiveness analyses. He has a special interest and expertise in HIV/AIDS and has published broadly on the cost-effectiveness of testing, prevention, treatment, and care, both in the United States and around the world.
Alexandra Savinkina is a first year PhD student in the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. She is interested in using mathematical modeling to answer questions at the intersection of infectious disease epidemiology and national and global health policy, with a focus on health equity. Prior to coming to Yale, Alexandra was a data analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and then worked in simulation modeling at Boston Medical Center's infectious disease department.
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- Institutional Research Analyst
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- Manager of Operations
- Manager of Operations - See Facilities Operations
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- Director
- Director the Community
Alycia Santilli, MSW, is the Director the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) at Southern Connecticut State University. Alycia received her Master in Social Work with a concentration in Community Organizing from the University of Connecticut. She worked as a community organizer for several years, organizing people to influence state policy. Recognizing the link between policy change and research, she became interested in public health research as a means for advancing public policy. Ms. Santilli began coordinating research projects at the Yale School of Public Health in 2005. She brings research skills in survey design, recruitment of hard-to-reach study participants, data collection protocol, and intervention development. She also brings skills in community-based intervention development (projects and policy-level). Ms. Santilli joined CARE shortly after its inception at Yale in 2007 and has been integral in providing administrative oversight and strategic direction for the new organization. A dedicated resident of New Haven, CARE provides a unique venue for Alycia to combine her community organizing background with her research skills to improve the health of New Haven.
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- Director of Faculty and Staff Affairs - See Faculty and Staff Affairs
Andrew K. Bhak, Council Vice-Chair is Managing Director, Group Head in Healthcare Investment Banking at BMO Capital Markets, which follows three years at J.P. Morgan, where he was responsible for the healthcare services sector. He joined J.P. Morgan from Deutsche Bank, where he was Co-Head of Healthcare Services Investment Banking. Prior to that, Andrew was at Morgan Stanley, where he served in a similar capacity and helped to build its healthcare services investment banking franchise. He has served as advisor on more than $135 billion of financing and merger & acquisitions transactions, including HMA's $7.6 billion sale to Community Health Systems, HCA's $3.8 billion IPO, US Oncology's $2.1 billion sale to McKesson, and Quest Diagnostics' $2.0 billion acquisition of Ameripath, among others. Andrew also serves on the Advisory Board of the Yale Healthcare Conference.
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- Research Assistant / Epidemiologist 1
Ann Prestipino, '80 M.P.H. is a Senior Vice President for Strategy and Clinical Operations at Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physician Organization as well as a Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School. Ann is the chair of the board of directors at Boston Medflight, a non-profit that provides critical air and ground transportation as well as a former Trustee at Martha's Vineyard Hospital. Ann has worked at Mass General for over 30 years holding several positions of increasing responsibility. She currently oversees many clinical/academic departments and centers, strategic planning and plays a leadership role assisting in the development of the Partners Healthcare System. Ann earned her BA in 1978 from Brown University before going on to receive her MPH from the Yale School of Public Health.
Ariel is a PhD candidate at YSPH in the Biostatistics Department. She is working on methods that address mismeasured clusters in cluster-randomized trials when evaluating causal effects in the presence of spillover, and applying these methods to HIV prevention trials.
Atalay Demiray, MD, MSc, is a first-year PhD student in Health Policy and Management at Yale University. As a first-generation college graduate from Turkiye, he is a prominent advocate of diversity and global health equity. Atalay earned his Master of Science degree in Health Economics, Policy, and Law from Erasmus University, an endeavor enriched by the Jean Monnet Scholarship. His master's thesis, titled "Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Upholding Public Health," was recognized as the Thesis of the Year in the Netherlands. Prior to pursuing his master's degree, he obtained a Doctor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Koc University. With a solid foundation in both medicine and international policy, Atalay is passionately working towards leveraging technological advancements to foster global health equity and improve public health outcomes. His ongoing research at Yale signifies a step further toward melding innovative solutions with pragmatic health policy frameworks.
Avery received her B.S. from Christopher Newport University in 2021, where she studied Environmental Biology, Business Administration, and Leadership Studies. She then joined the YSPH Environmental Health Sciences department and earned her M.P.H. in 2023. Following graduation, she began her career with Roux, an environmental consulting firm, working as a health scientist on their human health risk assessment team. Outside of school and work, Avery enjoys being engaged in her local community, teaching fitness classes, and spending time in nature, and she is excited to serve as an AYA representative.
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Chief Development Officer
- Chief Development Officer, YSPH
Beth Patton Comerford, MS received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Psychology with an emphasis on social and organizational psychology. As Deputy Director, she is responsible for management and oversight of the Prevention Research Center activities.
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
C. Brandon Ogbunu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. He is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, evolutionary & population genetics, and evolution. His work utilizes a range of methods, from experimental evolution, to biochemistry, applied mathematics, and evolutionary computation.
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- Manager, Administrative Services
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
Cheryl Fattibene, '90 M.S.N., '90 M.P.H., National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, Family Nurse Practitioner. Experienced Nurse Practitioner with a demonstrated history of working in both the for-profit and non-profit health care sectors as a provider and a clinical leader. Skilled in Disease Management, Primary Care, Operations Management, Team Based Care Models, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Public Speaking, and Acute Care. Doctoral Candidate with a focus in Nursing Leadership from Regis University.
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- Associate
- Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases ) Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Chaguza is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, Yale University. His research uses large genomic and epidemiological datasets of microbial pathogens (bacteria and viruses) to understand pathogenesis, molecular evolution, the genetic basis of phenotypes, antimicrobial resistance, transmission, and epidemiology to inform public health - disease control and prevention. His research at Yale primarily focuses on understanding the evolution and epidemiology of viral pathogens of public health importance, including but not limited to SARS-CoV-2, rotavirus, monkeypox, and dengue virus. Beyond viruses, his research focuses on comparative genomics of bacterial pathogens, including but not limited to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus), Staphylococcus aureus, and Enterococcus species. He is also keen to collaborate on microbial genomics projects within and outside Yale.
Christabelle Ong is a second-year MPH candidate concentrating in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and a graduate research associate for the Yale-Griffin CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC). Prior to Yale, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, honors degree in psychology from Yale-NUS College. She has worked with a number of student welfare organizations, the Singapore Ministry of Health, the Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center, and the New Haven Coordinated Food Assistance Network. Christabelle's research interests are food insecurity and the interaction of social, behavioral, and cultural determinants with health. She hopes to work in the food policy sector in the future.
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- Director Graduate Studies
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- Principal, Pharmacy Services Strategy & Innovation for Blue Shield of California 's Pharmacy Care Reimagined
Christina Mainero is Principal, Pharmacy Services Strategy & Innovation for Blue Shield of California's Pharmacy Care Reimagined program. Previously, she worked with the Illumination Foundation, a non-profit working to break the cycle of homelessness; Deloitte Consulting; the Yale Emerging Infections Program; CAMA, a boutique health design firm; and Kaiser Permanente. Prior to joining Blue Shield, she co-led the Care Transformation program for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California and was on the faculty of KP's Advanced Human-Centered Design Program. Christina is a mentor for Yale's TSAI CITY where she has coached three female-led teams in the healthcare and social enterprise space. Christina has been invited to speak at the Hive at the Claremont Colleges, Texas Tech, Parsons School of Design, and for the Yale Design and Innovation club. Christina takes satire writing classes with The Second City and doggedly pursues her self-imposed Goodreads Reading Challenge goals each year. She loves pineapple, spicy peppers, and hiking with her husband and her 2 pandemic rescue dogs, Finn & Henry.
Clarion E Johnson, ‘76 M.D., Council Vice-Chair retired from ExxonMobil as its Global Medical Director. He is presently Co-Chair of the Public Private Partnership at the National Academy of Sciences. He serves as Vice Chair on this Council and is a member of the Yale Healthcare Conference Advisory Board.He sits on the Boards of the Milbank Memorial Fund, the de Beaumont Foundation, Bon Secours Mercy Hospital System, Arch Diocese of New York's Care health system and Friends of the National Library of Medicine. In January of 2020 he was honored with a lifetime appointment as a National Associate of the National Research Council.Clarion is past chair of The Joint Commission's International and Research Boards, The Virginia Health Care Foundation and City Lights School. He was a HHS secretary appointee to the NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) Advisory Board and the Virginia Governor's Task Force on Health Reform and co-chair, Insurance Reform. He served as advisor and lecturer in the Harvard Medical School's Department of continuing education "Global Clinic Course" 2005-2008. In 2013 he received the Presidents Award from the Oil and International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA) and Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) for contributions to health and in 2012 he was the recipient of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Award for Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social responsibility. In 2011 he received a medal from the French Army's Institute De Recherche Biomedical for "Project Tetrapole" a public partnership in malaria research. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and a member of its Board of Trustees, and the Yale School of Medicine. While on active duty in the U.S. Army, he also trained as a microwave researcher at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Occupational Medicine.
Claudia Mastrogiacomo is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics on the Implementation Science pathway. She is interested in Bayesian methods for causal inference.
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- Senior Communications Officer
- Writer for the Yale School of Public Health 's Office of Communications
As a writer for the Yale School of Public Health's Office of Communications, Colin Poitras promotes the innovative and collaborative work of the school's outstanding faculty and students on a variety of platforms including Yale Public Health magazine, Yale News, the YSPH website, and other content areas. Prior to coming to Yale in 2018, Colin spent 10 years as a science writer and media relations specialist for the University of Connecticut, where he wrote about and promoted research advances in engineering, materials science, pharmaceutics, artificial intelligence, and chemistry. Colin has 20 years of news writing experience with the Hartford Courant and was a member of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage in 1998.
Cory is from San Diego, California and received his undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon, studying Physiology & Chemistry. His time in Oregon gave him a life-long love of craft beer, black coffee, and long-distance running (mostly to work off the calories from the beer). He received his Master's of Public Health in Health Policy & Management from the Yale School of Public Health. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 2016 to work in healthcare consulting and attend George Mason's JD/MBA dual-degree program. Today he works as an antitrust attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, focusing on competition and consolidation in the healthcare industry.
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- Desktop Support Technician
- IT Support Specialist
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- Associate Professor in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health
- Associate Professor Tenure Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dan Weinberger is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health. His research uses a combination of quantitative analysis, laboratory experiments and field work to understand the epidemiology and biology of respiratory infections. Recent work has focused on developing novel analytical methods for the evaluation of vaccines using time series and spatial data. He collaborates widely with public health agencies and academic organizations around the world on these issues. He earned his PhD in biological sciences from Harvard School of Public Health, with a focus on Infectious Disease Epidemiology, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies in the Fogarty International Center at the NIH.Research: The research in the Weinberger Lab is at the intersection of microbiology and epidemiology. We focus on understanding the biological and epidemiological drivers of respiratory infections, including pneumococcus, RSV, influenza, and Legionella. Major research areas include understanding the biological drivers of the emergence of rare pneumococcal serotypes following vaccine introduction, developing novel statistical approaches to evaluate vaccine impact from observational data, evaluating the importance of interactions among respiratory pathogens, and understanding environmental drivers of Legionellosis. We employ a variety of tools including experimental and quantitative approaches. Our work is funded by grants from the NIH/NIAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Emerging Infections Program (a collaboration between the CDC, the Connecticut Department of Public Health, and Yale). You can learn more about our research here. Teaching: I teach the Public Health Surveillance course at YSPH. This class uses a mix of lectures, cases studies, and hands on data analysis exercises. Students learn to perform common surveillance analyses including aberration detection (e.g., CUSUM), time series analysis, and spatial cluster detection (SATSCAN). Students learn to do these analyses in either SAS or R.
Darryl Crompton, '76 M.P.H., has had a distinguished career as a social justice and human rights advocate, lawyer, and academic. He has helped numerous non-profit, for-profit, and start-up organizations navigate challenging legal, business, and policy issues. He has served as a reliable and trusted lawyer and advisor to education officials, corporate leaders, and non-profit officials.Darryl served as Tuskegee University's first General Counsel, Vice President for Legal Affairs, and Vice President for Government Affairs. Earlier, Mr. Crompton was a professor of healthcare law at the University of Alabama in Birmingham for 13 years. Mr. Crompton has served as staff in the California State Senate, the California State Assembly, and the US House of Representatives. Crompton lectures frequently on various legal and policy issues, and has been active in numerous community, charity, and religious organizations, including Leadership Greater Washington. A native of Los Angeles, California, he has degrees from Yale University, the University of California Davis School of Law, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently serving a member of the Yale Alumni Association Executive Director's DEI Working Group. He also serves as a member of the Southeastern Health Equity Council. Specialties: Focus areas include: (1) Education Law; (2) Healthcare Policy & Infrastructure; (4) Global Health & International Education; (3) Ethics and Integrity; (4) Diversity & Inclusion and (5) Has spent a career working to improve access in education and healthcare.
Dashni Sathasivam, '19 M.P.H., Health Equity Solutions, Program Manager. Dashni Sathasivam is compelled by the intersection of health policy and advocacy and believes engaging communities and amplifying the voices of those directly impacted by policies as central to achieving structural changes that advance health equity. Originally from Wisconsin, her role as the Latino Outreach Coordinator with the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center's Cancer Health Disparities Initiative and service as a City Year Milwaukee AmeriCorps Member informed her community-based participatory approach to health and partnership building. Dashni graduated with a Master's in Public Health in health policy from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). In recognition of her commitment to social justice within YSPH and the wider New Haven community, she was awarded the inaugural YSPH Student Award for Outstanding Contributions in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She holds a Bachelor's of Science in Gender & Women's Studies and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
David D'Atri, PhD '74, MPH '73 is a previous past-president of AYAPH and currently resides in Guilford, Connecticut.
David Dull, '71 B.A., '82 J.D., is a director of Ostendo Technologies, Inc. and OnRamp Wireless, Inc. and a business advisor to several other privately-held electronics, water science and bioscience companies. In 2009, he retired after 11 years as a senior executive and general counsel of Broadcom Corporation, where he was responsible for legal affairs, intellectual property strategy and development, and mergers and acquisitions. Previously, as a partner in the law firm of Irell & Manella LLP, he represented clients in the entertainment and technology industries. For five years before and after law school, Mr. Dull was a staff member of the United Nations Association of the U.S.A., a non-profit research and advocacy organization. Mr. Dull is a trustee of Sage Hill School and Sarah Lawrence College and a former member of the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee. He and his wife reside in Newport Beach, CA. They have two children.
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- Co - Founder and Senior Partner, Court Square
David Thomas, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Court Square, has been a member of the Court Square Investment Team since 1980. Mr. Thomas received degrees in finance and accounting from the University of Akron. He is currently a director of Advanced Diabetes Supply, Data Axle, The Evans Network of Companies, Golden State Medical Supply, Momentum Telecom, and Smart City. He most recently served on the boards of Conterra Broadband, Fibertech Networks, Harvard Drug Group, National Seating & Mobility, Wyle Labs, Cadence Aerospace, Newmarket, and Auto Europe Group. Previous boards include Aviall, Brintec, C&H Sugar, DavCo Restaurants, The Devon Group, Flender, Furnishings International, Hancor Pipe, Interface Solutions, International Airmotive, MagnaChip Semiconductor, Mid-Atlantic Coca-Cola, Mspark, NCI, Neenah Foundry, Pamida Stores, People Express Airlines, Smith Alarm, Worldspan, York International, and Zatarain's
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- Coordinator
- Coordinator, Alumni Affairs
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- Assistant Professor of Public Health Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Humphries has a broad background in public health research and practice. She has been a consultant in the areas of diet and physical activity behavior change, sustainability of community health programs, program monitoring and evaluation, and training in participatory monitoring and evaluation for organizations in Vietnam, Africa and in the United States. She has extended that reach through her Practice-based Community Health Research course which places student groups with agencies in the State of Connecticut to plan and evaluate programs. Sample projects include: Determining the Best Time to Implement Routine HIV Testing in Jails; Barriers to Accessing Health Care and Health Needs of Undocumented Immigrants; Evaluation of HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and care in Connecticut Correctional Facilities; and Strategies to Reduce Low Birth Weight in New Haven: An Evaluation of the Outreach Strategy of the New Haven Maternal and Child Health Department. Humphries is also a member of the Community Research Engagement steering committee at Yale.Dr. Humphries' research addresses interactions between nutrition and infectious disease, as well as programmatic approaches to improving public health. This work has taken her to Asia and Africa where she has studied environmental factors and intestinal helminth infections and their relationship to anemia as well as effectiveness of intervention programs. She is currently collaborating on a longitudinal study to characterize parasite and host factors affecting response to deworming in Ghana.
Dr. Thindwa is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health, Yale University. He uses mathematical and statistical analysis applied to epidemiological datasets of viruses and bacteria to understand their disease epidemiology and transmission dynamics to inform public health prevention and control measures. His current research focuses on understanding the dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) following COVID-19 pandemic, and measuring the public health impact of RSV vaccines or monoclonal antibodies against RSV disease. He also investigates the dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae, and the intricate of expanding pneumococcal vaccination landscape, and their impact against pneumococcal carriage and subsequent disease.
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- Wellness Counselor ( Non - Clinical )
Dillon was born, raised, and currently resides in California's East Bay. His work with University of California's Nutrition Policy Institute galvanized him to pursue YSPH's MPH with a focus on Health Policy. During his first year at Yale, Dillon served as YSPH's Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS) representative and founded the Asian Graduate Network, an affiliate organization of the Asian American Cultural Center. By his second year, he was elected into the role of GPSS Vice President and served on two university-wide Student Advisory Committees. He currently volunteers as a Yale Alumni Schools Committee alumni interviewer and as a Ministry Fellow to the Christian Fellowship UCW. In his free time, Dillon enjoys bouldering, hiking, camping, and drinking boba.
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- Postdoctoral Associate
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Verity Hill is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health. She is interested in the evolution and control of viruses of public health concern, especially those which have historically been neglected.She applies molecular epidemiological and phylodynamic techniques to explore the spatial and temporal spread of viruses in close to real-time, and has most recently contributed to SARS-CoV-2 genomic analysis and control efforts in the UK.
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- Research Scientist
- Research Scientist in Public Health ( Social and Behavioral Sciences )
Dr. Amber Hromi-Fiedler is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Hromi-Fiedler obtained her B.A. in Psychobiology from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, in 1994. In 2002, she obtained her M.P.H. from the University of Connecticut and in 2007 she obtained her Ph.D. from the same university. Dr. Hromi-Fiedler specializes in community nutrition with emphasis in maternal and child health (MCH) both domestically and internationally. Internationally, she participated in the implementation of an MCH project with Save the Children in Uganda. In Ghana, with funding from the NIH, she developed and taught an intensive course to build the capacity of local Ghanaian health professional by enhancing their knowledge and skill of analyzing nutritional data using a public domain software available through the Centers for Disease Control. In Ghana, she also collaborated in the training of nutrition staff and the development of nutrition education materials for Liberian refugee caretakers at Buduburam Refugee Camp. The nutrition education materials focused on child nutrition as well as food safety and are currently being used and distributed to caretakers to improve nutritional outcomes among Liberian refugee children. She also conducted a postdoctoral summer fellowship in Ghana examining dietary practices, food availability, and nutritional status among Liberian refugees and Ghanaians living in and around Buduburam Refugee Camp. She continues to work in Ghana on infant and young child feeding projects. Domestically, she has taken the lead on the adaptation of the U.S. Food Security Scale, a national instrument to measure food insecurity, among pregnant Latina women. Dr. Hromi-Fiedler implemented one of the first longitudinal studies in Hartford, CT, examining the association between food insecurity during pregnancy and infant outcomes among Latinas. Dr. Hromi-Fiedler has also conducted feasibility research to develop a community-based intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among low-income pregnant Latinas. Dr. Hromi-Fiedler has presented her work at national and international conferences. Dr. Hromi-Fiedler has authored or co-authored several research articles in the fields of interest.
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- Instructor of Medicine ( Infectious Diseases ) Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Lauren Pischel obtained her undergraduate degree in biology at Brown University and worked in the lab of Dr. Jake Kurtis on the development of a pediatric malaria vaccine. She obtained her MD at Stanford where she conducted research with Dr. Julie Parsonnet on the impact of an antimicrobial triclosan on the human microbiome. She then completed her internal medicine residency at Yale where she was awarded the primary care award for the Fair Haven Community Health Center. She subsequently pursued here fellowship in infectious diseases and her masters of science of public health in the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Her current interests include the epidemiology and spread of COVID-19, vaccine effectiveness research and emerging infectious diseases with her work with Dr. Saad B Omer and Inci Yildirim, as well as interactions of infectious diseases with climate change and changing environmental landscapes.
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- Dean
- Physician
- Researcher
- Dean of Yale School of Public Health and C. - E. a. Winslow Professor of Public Health ( Health Policy ) and Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Megan L. Ranney is an emergency physician, researcher, and national advocate for innovative approaches to public health. She joined Yale in July 2023 as the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health and C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health. Dr. Ranney's research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and related behavioral health problems, as well as on COVID-related risk reduction. She has held multiple national leadership roles, including Co-Founder and Senior Strategic Advisor for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM) at the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit committed to ending the gun violence epidemic through a non-partisan public health approach, and Co-Founder of GetUsPPE, a start-up nonprofit that delivered donated personal protective equipment to those who needed it most. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Institute's Health Innovators Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Opioid Abatement Trust. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. She has received numerous awards for technology innovation, public health, and research, including Rhode Island "Woman of the Year" and the American College of Emergency Physicians' Policy Pioneer Award. A leading public voice on urgent topics in health and medicine, she offers expert analysis through testimony to Congress and guidance for non-governmental organizations. She is a frequent media commentator and author of op-eds for outlets that include the BBC, CNN, The Atlantic, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Prior to arriving at Yale, Dr. Ranney served as Deputy Dean at the Brown University School of Public Health; the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University; and the Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. She remains an adjunct faculty member at Brown University. Dr. Ranney earned her bachelor's degree in history of science, graduating summa cum laude, from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha, from Columbia University; and her master's degree in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research at Brown University. She was previously a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d'Ivoire.
Dr. Megan Ranney became the new dean of the Yale School of Public Health on July 1, 2023. An emergency physician and innovative leader in public health, Ranney is nationally known for her advocacy and research on firearm injury prevention as well as her community-driven approaches to addressing longstanding and emerging public health problems. As dean, she will oversee the school's historic transition to a fully independent, self-sustaining professional school.
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- Postdoctoral Associate
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr. Rafael Lopes is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health. He develops computational models to understand, as well as predict, the ecological succession of variants of SARS-CoV-2 and its burdens for infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Through data analysis of genomic sequence data and epidemiological data, he aims to quantify the impacts of these arms race processes and their impacts on public health.
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- Assistant Professor in Nursing, SCSU
Dr. Susan Burger, Assistant Professor in Nursing is a doctorally prepared registered nurse (BSN-Duke University; MSN-Nursing Education-Southern CT State University; PhD-University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) with more than 30 years nursing experience. Dr. Burger joined the WCSU faculty in the fall of 2015. Prior to coming to WCSU, she held academic positions at the University of Connecticut, New York University, Sacred Heart University, and Rutgers University. She is a Certified Nurse Educator with clinical expertise in Community-Public Health Nursing and Maternal-Child Health Nursing.Dr. Burger is an active researcher and presenter. Her program of research focuses on reducing re-hospitalization among chronically ill individuals through more effective self-management. Over the past 5 years she has been studying the impact of telehealth monitoring on health outcomes among community dwelling, low income residents in Stamford, CT. She is currently investigating the implementation of a new patient centered medical home care team model and its impact on quality, cost, and satisfaction in a multi-site community health center located in Bridgeport, CT Dr. Burger was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau in 1987 and is actively involved in the CT Association of Public Health Nurses and the Eastern Nursing Research Society. In addition, she is looking forward to serving on many department and university committees at WCSU.
Professor Pinker's research in healthcare looks at questions related to patient flow and capacity management within both in-patient and out-patient settings. In the out-patient setting he has studied the division of labor in primary care practices and advanced access appointment scheduling systems. In the in-patient setting he has studied how bed configurations can impact access to care and how congestion in ICUs impacts patient flow. He is currently involved in several projects investigating the use of the Rothman Index as a predictive tool to inform clinical decision making. Outside of healthcare he has done research on service supply chains, the use of flexible workforces, online auctions and responses to terrorist threats among others. He serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals in his field. Pinker has consulted for the United States Postal Service, the financial services industry and the auto industry. His work has been published in leading journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Production and Operations Management, and the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. Read More
Edward H. Kaplan obtained his BA from McGill University with First Class Honors in Economic and Urban Geography, and proceeded to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed three masters' degrees (in Operations Research, City Planning, and Mathematics) in addition to his doctorate in Urban Studies. He currently serves as the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management, Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, and Professor of Engineering in the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. An elected member of both the National Academy of Engineering (2003) and the Institute of Medicine (2004), Kaplan is an expert in operations research, mathematical modeling and statistics who studies problems in public policy and management. His recent research has focused on counterterror topics such as the tactical prevention of suicide bombings, bioterror preparedness, and response logistics in the event of a smallpox or anthrax attack. His work on smallpox was awarded the 2003 Koopman Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Military Applications Society, while his models evaluating suicide-bomber-detector schemes received the same award in 2005. Kaplan serves on the National Academy of Sciences panel on basic research to improve intelligence analysis, and co-directs the Daniel Rose Technion-Yale Initiative in Homeland Security and Counter Terror Operations Research. Kaplan has also conducted award-winning research that evaluates the effectiveness of HIV prevention programs while developing new mathematical models for the study of HIV transmission, prevention, and resource allocation. His empirical and modeling research demonstrating the effectiveness of New Haven's needle exchange program remains among the most creative and important examples of HIV prevention program evaluation to date. Honors for his HIV-related research include induction into the Omega Rho operations research honor society in 2000, the 2002 INFORMS President's Award recognizing work that advances the welfare of society, the 1997 Ira Hiscock Award of the Connecticut Public Health Association, the 1994 Lanchester Prize for the best publications in the operations research literature, the 1992 Franz Edelman Award for management science achievement, the 1991 State of Connecticut Health Department's AIDS Leadership Award, the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award from the Centers for Disease Control, and the INFORMS Philip Morse Lectureship for 2010-11. Kaplan served twice as the Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem-in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine in 1994, and in the Department of Statistics in 1997 -- and is also an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. For all of his contributions to the operations research profession, Kaplan was designated an INFORMS Fellow in November 2005.
Elaine Anderson was Director of Community, Alumni and Special Studies at the Yale School of Public Health until her retirement in 2007. Her office had responsibility for a number of functions including institutional research; the school's reaccreditation; strategic planning; public health practice; alumni relations; continuing education and workforce development; and special projects. Her previous position at Yale was as Director of the Resource Center for Health Professions Development.A graduate of the Yale University School of Public Health, and the Institute for Social Policy Studies at the University of Michigan, her academic interests are in methodology/ research design in community-based studies. She taught an applied community research course for MPH students at Yale for 25 years and still gives lectures on public health issues, primarily for the residential colleges. Her publications and professional presentations have been on topics related to minority health, gender issues in health care, workforce development, public health practice, and changing global values as they relate to health behaviors.
Elaine Anderson is a 1976 graduate of the Yale School of Public Health. She worked at Yale for over 30 years, serving as Director of Community, Alumni and Special Studies at YSPH until her retirement in 2007. Her office had responsibility for a number of functions including institutional research; the school's reaccreditation; strategic planning; public health practice; alumni relations; continuing education and workforce development; and special projects. Currently, she is a member of a number of nonprofit and community boards including the Board of the East Shore District Health Department.
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- Manager, Compliance and Training
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
Elyse Galloway is the current Vice President - Health; Lead - Multicultural Health Speciality at Edelman. Galloway is chiefly passionate about transforming public health & scientific insights into engaging programming that systemically and sustainably improves population health. Beginning her tenure at Edelman specializing in health crisis and issues, Elyse has transitioned to support a number of biopharmaceutical, health system, public health and consumer health clients and co-leads Edelman's multicultural health specialty. With nearly a decade working within the public health world, Elyse has contributed to diverse initiatives spanning health equity, social impact, corporate reputation, regulatory affairs and brand. Appreciating the power of public-private partnerships, she works to leverage the competencies of diverse stakeholders to maximize reach and impact. Most recently, Elyse led Edelman's ImmUNITY Chicago program, a behavioral science pilot program aimed at building vaccine confidence and immunization intention across diverse populations in Chicago. Previous to her time in public relations, Elyse worked within the non-profit and public sector world, contributing to Sesame Street in Communities Traumatic Experiences initiative and serving as the Special Assistant to the Director of Policy, Communications and Education at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH.
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- Marketing Specialist
- Marketing Specialist for the Yale School of Public Health
Ephemia is the Marketing Specialist for the Yale School of Public Health. In this role, she spearheads the design of publications, serves as creative director for photoshoots and visual content, and assists in creating communications plans for events and campaigns. Ephemia also assists with social media content creation and brand research. Prior to joining Yale in 2024, Ephemia was a digital platforms assistant for a local university as well as social media coordinator for a national non-profit. Ephemia also has experience in professional photography, public relations, agency work, and disability advocacy.
Erin Mathios is a second-year MPH student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at the Yale School of Public Health. Prior to Yale, she was a research associate at Cornell University and supported research related to substance misuse and child wellbeing. View Full Profile
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- Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases )
- Postdoctoral Associate
Ernest Asare is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. His primary research focuses on using mathematical models to describe the transmission dynamics, evaluate the impact of interventions and understand the influence of meteorological and climatic factors on diarrhea and malaria diseases. He uses mathematical models to better understand and quantify the drivers of differential impact of rotavirus vaccines. He is also interested in how climate change will affect mosquito population and intensity and distribution of malaria.
Forrest Crawford's work focuses on mathematical and statistical problems related to discrete structures and stochastic processes in epidemiology, public health, biomedicine, and evolutionary science.
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- Staff Writer / Associate Communications Officer
- Writer and Associate Communications Officer at YSPH
Fran Fried came aboard as a writer and associate communications officer at YSPH in April 2022. She writes and compiles student, faculty, staff and alumni profiles for the YSPH website, in addition to writing feature and news stories. She also compiles the school's Insider and Events Calendar newsletters. She's been a jack- and jill-of-all-trades her entire adult life. She was in journalism (print and online) for 30 years at news organizations in Connecticut, California and New York, as an editor and writer covering features, news, music/entertainment and sports. She's also an advocate for trans rights; she has written op-ed pieces in The New York Times (online) and New Haven Register, has spoken to several college classes, and was asked for her input when a Long Island school district created a trans-inclusive student policy. She has hosted music shows on terrestrial and online radio for more than 30 years, and in 2017, she took part in one of the weirdest finishes in the history of Jeopardy!
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- Associate Dean for Student and External Affairs
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, I came to the United States at the age of nineteen and attended Vanderbilt University, where I majored in Biomedical Engineering. In my spare time, I enjoy learning different languages and traditional Chinese art forms, such as Beijing Opera and crosstalk. Fun fact about me: I joined the marching band in my college with no prior knowledge of football. It was a wild experience but a lot of fun!
George Tolis, M.D., ‘91 B.S., '91 M.S., was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Yale University summa cum laude with a bachelor's and a master's degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. Following graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1995, he completed an internship and residency in general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Tolis then completed an advanced aortic fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr. Tolis worked at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City as chief of aortic surgery and at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center as chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. He joined the cardiac surgery staff at Mass General in July 2014.
Gerald McNair '74 M.P.H., Gerald McNair Insurance Agency, Retirement Specialist. Gerald McNair Insurance Agency is an independent insurance agency specializing in Medicare Insurance Solutions. We work with dozens of insurance companies, so we can offer our clients appropriate coverage for them. Our clients are located all across North Carolina, giving us a great feel for the insurance landscape. We design plans with a focus on low costs, and proper benefit structure, which we combine with personalized insurance advice aimed at helping our clients make better-informed decisions.
Gregg Gonsalves is an expert in policy modeling on infectious disease and substance use, as well as the intersection of public policy and health equity. His research focuses on the use of quantitative models for improving the response to epidemic diseases. For more than 30 years, he worked on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues with several organizations, including the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, the Treatment Action Group, Gay Men's Health Crisis, and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa. He is a 2011 graduate of Yale College and received his PhD from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/School of Public Health in 2017. He is currently the public health correspondent for The Nation. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.
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- Building Operations Coordinator
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- Assistant Director, Student Affairs
Ijeoma Opara, PhD, LMSW, MPH, leads the Substance Abuse and Sexual Health (SASH) Lab. The SASH Lab, which includes graduate and doctoral students from Yale, instills pride in and elevates the strengths of teen Black girls, in a direct effort to reduce future rates of substance abuse and HIV. This noble work is a multidisciplinary combination of psychology, social work, epidemiology, and human development.
Jackson Higginbottom, MPH, is a public health practitioner working at the intersection of behavior change, health communications, and community engagement. He leads the Initiative for Strategic Health Communications at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and health communications at the Community Alliance for Research & Engagement (CARE) at the Yale School of Public Health. His primary research interests include: (1) investigating the social determinants of mental and physical health among sexual, ethnic and racial minority populations; and (2) developing and evaluating evidence-based interventions to address health needs of under-resourced communities. In addition to his roles at Yale, Jackson is the President of Fundación Manos Juntas, a free medical clinic that provides care to over 3,000 patients in Oklahoma City.
James B. Crystal, '86 B.A., has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CV Holdings, Inc., a specialty lender focused on equipment finance and commercial real estate lending, since 2019. From 2013 to 2019, he was a Managing Director at Tricadia Capital Management, where he was the portfolio manager principally responsible for private equity investments in the financial services sector, overseeing funds with over $450 million in commitments and serving on various portfolio company boards. Prior to joining Tricadia, he was a Managing Director at Rockefeller & Co., one of the largest multi-family offices. Before joining Rockefeller in 2008, Jim was a Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Bear Stearns Asset Management, a Managing Director at Silverback Asset Management and, from 1997 to 2004, a Senior Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co., serving in the Investment Banking Department and the Asset-Backed Investments Group. Prior to joining Bear Stearns, he was a Director at predecessor companies to UBS Investment Bank from 1988 to 1997. He serves as the Treasurer of the American Friends of Herculaneum, a non-profit organization promoting education, conservation and research relating to the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum (now a World Heritage Site), which was buried and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Jim received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale College in 1986 and an A.M. from Harvard University in 1988.
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- Associate Director / Associate Director, Yale Emerging Infections Program, and Lecturer in Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases ) Associate Director, Yale Emerging Infections Program
Jane E. Dee joined the communications team at Yale University in 2018. As a communications officer at the Yale School of Public Health, she is the managing editor of Yale Public Health magazine, the school's official publication that focuses on the activities of students, faculty and alumni. Jane previously worked at Yale School of Medicine where she was a prolific writer, publishing widely on topics including medical advances from the department of internal medicine. Before Yale, she was a senior publications editor and executive editor at CT1 Media, which comprised a local TV station and The Hartford Courant, one of the largest regional newspapers in the country. She also was the company's liaison between the newsroom and its business divisions, responsible for strategic communications and marketing. Jane received her master's degree from Wesleyan University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts.
Jasmine Rios is an M.P.H. candidate in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at the Yale School of Public Health. Concurrently, she is pursuing her B.A. in History of Science and Medicine at Yale College, where she has previously supported research with the Yale Intergroup Relations Lab.
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- Director of the Community Impact Lab
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
- Senior Administrative Assistant at the Yale School of Public Health Department of Communications
Jazminx Ellis is the Senior Administrative Assistant at the Yale School of Public Health Department of Communications and Public Relations. In this role, she supports the YSPH Communications and P.R. team and its community members. Jazminx also has experience in entrepreneurship, health insurance administration, marketing and financial benefits administration including FMLA and Short Term Disability.
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- Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Co - Leader, Genomics, Genetics, & Epigenetics Research Program
- Professor
Professor Townsend received his Ph.D. in 2002 in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University, under the advisement of Daniel Hartl. His Ph.D. was entitled "Population genetic variation in genome-wide gene expression: modeling, measurement, and analysis", and constituted the first population genetic analysis of genome-wide gene expression variation. After making use of the model budding yeast S. cerevisiae for his Ph.D. research, Dr. Townsend accepted an appointment as a Miller Fellow at the University of California-Berkeley in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, where he worked to develop molecular tools, techniques, and analysis methodologies for functional genomics studies with the filamentous fungal model species Neurospora crassa, co-advised by Berkeley fungal evolutionary biologist John Taylor and molecular mycologist Louise Glass. In 2004, he accepted his first appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. In 2006 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. In 2013 he began to work on statistical approaches to fit mathematical models of disease spread and emergence, and to work on the somatic evolution of cancer, and was appointed as an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. In 2017 he was named Elihu Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and in 2018 he was appointed Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. In 2019 he was appointed a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, in recognition of the development of innovative approaches to population biology, including the evolution of antimicrobial resistance, disease evolution and transmission, and evolution of tumorigenesis; and research that has enabled curtailment of pathogen evolution, outbreak mitigation, and informed therapeutic approaches to cancer metastasis and evolution of therapeutic resistance in cancer. In 2021 he was selected as the Co-Chair-Elect of the Cancer Evolution Working Group of the American Association for Cancer Research. In 2022 he was appointed Co-Director of the Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics Program of the Yale Cancer Center. In 2023 he was elevated to Co-Chair of the Cancer Evolution Working Group of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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- Associate Director Web Operations
- Web Content Manager
At the Yale School of Public Health, Jessica is a web content and operations manager with over 30 years of experience in marketing and manufacturing operations. Her expertise in digital design, prepress, printing, and e-commerce web helps create engaging content highlighting the school's legacy and leadership in public health education. Working collaboratively with multiple departments and stakeholders, she focuses on developing resonating content for all YSPH web audiences. With her strong communication skills and the ability to use data to drive content decisions, she manages YSPH websites, web analytics, and SEO. This helps to maximize web search rankings, optimize content, analyze user engagement, maintain site quality standards, and ensure consistent brand messaging across channels. In addition to supervising web specialists and student workers, Jessica is also the web operations manager for website development. She manages a network of content contributors to ensure accuracy and consistency. She monitors all website changes submitted to the web team by the YSPH community and manages the Office of Communications work request Salesforce ticketing system. Over the next year, the school is undergoing a web transformation, and Jessica is leading the charge! Her mission is to revamp the website design and assemble a new CMS platform that delivers modern, dynamic design and content to engage and inspire end-users. Jessica plays a crucial role in developing and maintaining the school's online presence. She ensures the content's accuracy, consistency, and approachability to amplify the school's mission and values that will continue to inspire others in the field of public health education.
Jo joined the Pitzer Lab as a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases in the Fall of 2021, where they use mathematical models to study the dynamics of infectious disease transmission and vaccination in low-resource settings, with a focus on typhoid fever. Prior to arriving at Yale, Jo worked on mathematical modeling and forecasting for influenza and COVID-19 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When Jo is not in class or building models, they enjoy cooking, climbing, and basketball.
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- Professor of Public Health ( Health Policy )
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Joshua Warren is an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from North Carolina State University in 2011. Dr. Warren's research focuses on statistical methods in public health with an emphasis on environmental health problems. Much of his work involves introducing spatial and spatiotemporal models in the Bayesian setting to learn more about associations between environmental exposures, such as air pollution, and various health outcomes including preterm birth, low birth weight, and congenital anomalies. He also has interest in developing and applying spatiotemporal models in collaborative settings such as epidemiology, geography, nutrition, and glaucoma research. His theoretical and methodological interests include multiple topics in spatial/spatiotemporal modeling and Bayesian nonparameterics.
Judy Treu is a Research Associate whose interests include nutrition and physical activity promotion, health communication, community-based research, and obesity prevention. At the PRC, she implements and evaluates nutrition and physical activity programs in schools and other community settings; develops health education materials; provides nutrition guidance to participants in our clinical research studies; and writes grant proposals, press releases, and manuscripts.Judy has previously worked at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Massachusetts, where she gained extensive experience in developing nutrition education materials for various audiences and professional development materials and workshops for health professionals. She is a registered dietitian with a BA in health science (SUNY College at Brockport) and MS in nutrition (Pennsylvania State University).
Julia Dennett's research is focused on health economics and policy, with an interest in the determinants of health and health behaviors. Her goal is to understand how economic and environmental factors affect health and human capital outcomes and their long-term trajectories. Julia's current research agenda examines topics at the intersection of health care access, the opioid epidemic, and infectious disease and aims to inform the policy response to the opioid crisis. She received a Ph.D. in Health Policy (Economics track) from Harvard University and a B.S. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Data Analyst Biostatistician, School of Public Health
Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering in 2016 from Nanjing University in China. During 2014-2015, he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Prior to joining the Yale School of Public Health faculty in July 2019, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellow at Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Center for Environmental Health.Dr. Chen's research focuses on the intersection of climate change, air pollution, and human health. His work involves applying multidisciplinary approaches in climate and air pollution sciences, exposure assessment, and environmental epidemiology to investigate how climate change may impact human health. Much of this work has been done in China, Europe, and the U.S.
Kathe Fox, '81 Ph.D., Ex officio serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health (AYAPH). Kathe, an Informatics Consultant, has more than 30 years' experience in healthcare Informatics with a particular emphasis on chronic disease epidemiology, research methods and evaluation, and big data and data integration. Recently retired from Aetna, Kathe is currently devoting her energies to service in support of public health and emerging technology companies that are grounded in healthcare data and insights. She is the President of the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health and President of the Board of the Health Care Cost Institute. At Aetna, Kathe was a member of the Analytics and Behavior Change organization where she led the Informatics activities that support Plan Sponsor analyses and tools. Recently Kathe led the design and assessment of provider and network services including the assessment and monitoring of Aetna's Joint Venture partners. Kathe also helped manage data governance for external release of Aetna data for research. In 2016 Kathe won the Aetna Innovator of the Year Award and the Aetna Chairman's Award for her Health/Wealth product idea. From 2012 - 2020 Kathe worked closely with the Harvard Medical School, specifically the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Health Policy, and encouraged and supported the growth of clinical and policy research using health insurance claims data. Harvard and Aetna built a multi-year data enclave that offered claims experience on 70+ M members over ten years. Researchers used these data to investigate questions ranging from the efficacy of preventive screening to the inheritability of autism. These data, and the associated analytic techniques, have been introduced to medical students as part of their training. Prior to joining Aetna, Kathe was Vice President and Practice Leader for Health Plan customers at Medstat (now IBM Health) where she was responsible for analytic and consulting solutions for the managed care market. She also led a number of federal contracts including the CMS Medicaid Encounter Data Quality and Performance Measurement project and an AHRQ Medical Errors Reporting Implementation Plan. Kathe holds a Ph.D. from Yale University (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health) and a B.A. in History from Skidmore College. From 1985 - 87 she was a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellow in Healthcare Finance at Johns Hopkins. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of ActivateCare and Scipher Medicine.
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- Assistant Director for Development and Alumni Affairs
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- Research Associate
- Assistant Director for Research & Evaluation at the Community Alliance for Research & Engagement
Katherine LaMonaca is the Assistant Director for Research & Evaluation at the Community Alliance for Research & Engagement (CARE) and the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Previously, Katherine was a Research Associate with Yale Clinical and Community Research program and a Program Manager with the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute. Before coming to Yale, she was responsible for developing and implementing new global health education programs at Quinnipiac University and worked for Partners In Health in Boston. She received her M.P.H from the Yale School of Public Health in 2012.
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- Director of Research Administration - See Research Administration
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- Co - Director
- Deputy Director
Kathleen O'Connor Duffany, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at the Yale School of Public Health, Director of Research and Evaluation for CARE (the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement), and Co-Director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Dr. O'Connor Duffany's research and practie examines the social, biological, behavioral, and structural barriers to health equity. Her work included extensive interactions with community-based organizations, agencies, and community residents to improve health outcomes. From large scale multi-national projects, to local community-based programs, she has designed and collaborated on studies and evaluations assessing and addressing social factors influencing health with an interest in long-term structural and policy change. She works collaboratively with community partners to identify ways to improve health in the community at large and communicate findings in multiple formats to reach academicians, community residents, and policy makers - conducting ‘rigorous community research for practical benefit. Dr. O'Connor Duffany's expertise in evaluation extends over 25 years and includes the range of evaluation purposes and types. At YSPH, she teaches Community Health Program Evaluation to MPH and PhD students, engaging future researchers, evaluators, and practitioners in community-based participatory evaluation approaches focused on health equity, and mentoring students in developing evaluation plans for community organizations, health centers, and hospitals. To support ongoing workforce development trainings, she conducts annual trainings in Evidence Based Public Health for health department staff, hospital administrators, and CHWs across CT. In her role at Y-G PRC/CARE and YSPH, she along with her well-established evaluation team provides evaluation technical assistance, capacity building, and full support for evaluations, with recent studies focused on equity across a range of topics including evaluation of Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Programs in CT and CA, Breastfeeding initiative needs assessments, Supporting Wellness in Pantries (SWAP) process and outcomes study, CHW-led community clinical linkages initiative process and outcomes study, implementation science guided study of a virtual Diabetes Prevention Program supported by CHWs, rapid community assessments for vaccines, evaluation of local health communications efforts, and formative and outcome evaluation of CARE leadership programs including Community Research Fellows, New Haven Health Leaders, and Vaccine Equity Fellows programs, to name a few. She also serves on several committees and leadership teams related to food security, nutrition, and population health. Lastly, she serves as Faculty Director of the newly formed Community Impact Lab that seeks to engage students in public health practice with local community organizations ensuring these ongoing partnerships are equitable, sustained, and impactful for the organization and the community they serve.
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- Director
- Faculty Director
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- Digital and Social Media Strategist at the Yale School of Public Health
Kayla Steinberg is the Digital and Social Media Strategist at the Yale School of Public Health. In this role, she manages the Yale School of Public Health social media and shares the school's work, stories and public health messages through creative multimedia and digital communications. Prior to joining Yale in 2020, Kayla was the communications coordinator at a local public health department in Michigan, where she shared timely information on everything from infectious disease outbreaks to mental health and the overdose crisis. Kayla also has experience in multimedia storytelling, journalism, and non-profit communications.
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- Assistant Dean of Communications
Kira is responsible for overseeing the YSPH Office of Communications. Kira has come from Smithville Communications where she was Vice President of Marketing, Product and Customer Service and led the marketing and customer service departments to develop brand, acquisition and customer communication strategies. Prior to Smithville, Kira was Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Public Relations at Frontier Communications in New Haven. She obviously brings with her experience in marketing and communication strategies, but also experience with the New Haven community and local organizations. She resides with her family in Trumbull, CT where she is an advocate for special needs children and fostering diversity within the community.
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- Coordinator 4 Research & Project Coordinator, Yale School of Public Health IBMR Program Manager, Yale School of Public Health
- Research and Project Coordinator for Yale School of Public
Kurt Petschke is a Research and Project Coordinator for Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) professors David Paltiel and Jody Sindelar. He is also the Program Manager for the Inclusion Body Myositis Disease Registry at Yale (IBMR). As a member of the Health Policy & Management Department and the Public Health Modeling Unit, he provides research, technical and administrative support for a number of research projects, studies, and experiments. As part of his responsibilities, Kurt oversees the IBMR website, Registry, Personalized Index Calculator, and outreach activities for the IBMR project. He also coordinates research projects for Drs. Paltiel and Sindelar, including: monitoring and ensuring compliance of their sponsored research projects; establishing and maintaining close working relationships with other investigators and their relevant research and administrative staff on collaborative projects; participating in research award and Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol development, submissions and amendments; developing and monitoring project budgets with delegated authority to approve financial transactions for their sponsored projects; ensuring compliance with federal regulations and University policies and procedures; implementation of online surveys, discrete choice experiments, field surveys, and focus groups; assisting with development of content for peer-reviewed manuscripts, scientific and other project reports, project websites, scientific meetings, and conferences as needed. Prior to coming to Yale in 2004, Kurt was a Grant and Contract Specialist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Office of Sponsored Research Services. He has also been a Transportation Planner/Analyst with the Genesee Transportation Council regional Metropolitan Planning Organization in Rochester, New York; a Service Analyst with the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority; and a Meteorologist Technician with Oceanroutes, a global ship routing company in Sunnyvale, California.Kurt studied Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, and Geography at Penn State University and then at the University at Albany, where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in 1986.
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- Research Assistant School of Public Health
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics ( Biostatistics ) Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Laura Forastiere is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. Her methodological research is focused on methods for assessing causal inference for evidence-based research, exploring the mechanisms underlying the effect of an intervention including causal pathways through intermediate variables or mechanisms of peer influence and spillover between connected units. Her research explores modeling, inferential, and other methodological issues that often arise in applied problems with complex clustered and network data, and standard statistical theory and methods are no longer adequate to support the goals of the analysis. Laura is eager to apply advanced statistical methodology to provide evidence on effective strategies to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations. She is particularly interested in exploring behavioral interventions that, relying on theories of behavioral economics and social phycology, exploit social interactions and peer influence among individuals. She is involved in many program evaluations and research studies in low- and middle-income countries on malaria, HIV and other STDs, maternal and child health, nutrition, cognitive development, health insurance and microcredit. Dr. Forastiere received her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Florence (Italy) and postdoc training in statistics and biostatistics at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Department of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health, she was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Yale Institute for Network Science.
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- Director of Online and Certificate Education
Linda Bergonzi-King holds a master of public health degree from the Yale School of Public Health. In 1990, Ms. Bergonzi-King founded TriBella Productions, a health communication company which provides consultation in health communication, project management, epidemiological research and study coordination. She has 25 years of experience in the field of health communication, including producing, directing and editing videos for health agencies. Among many productions, TriBella produced an informative video series highlighting the many professional services and centers within the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, a series for Connecticut Hospice and training videos for the Yale Child Study Center, Essentials of Literacy Program and the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine. Linda has a strong background in communicating to a very diverse population. She has made it a career goal to reach many citizens of all cultures and uses techniques in video production and instructional design to communicate health promotion concepts to all. Ms. Bergonzi-King has also taught public health communication courses at the Yale School of Public Health, Sacred Heart University and Hill Regional Career High School in New Haven, CT. She also serves as a mentor to a high school public health class at Metropolitan Business Academy. In addition, she has worked at the Yale School of Public Health, Center for Perinatal, Pediatric & Environmental Epidemiology where she assisted in research for the National Children's Study. This multi-year research study examined the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the United States. In her role as a Senior Associate at the Yale New Haven Health System, Center for Healthcare Solutions, Ms. Bergonzi-King was responsible for the design and development of both online and instructor-led courses, with a specialty in video interface. She also organized educational workshops for health care staff throughout CT and served as Project Lead for two YNHHS-CHS subcontracts at the Yale School of Public Health and the New Haven Health Department.
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer / Research Interests
Dr. Degutis, a native of Chicago, received her Bachelor of Science degree from DePaul University, and her MSN and DrPH from Yale University. She is a consultant in injury and violence prevention and policy, public health preparedness, and public health policy. Some of her current work focuses on suicide prevention in veterans, and firearm violence prevention, as well as public health practice. She is former Executive Director of Defense Health Horizons, a program of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, based at the Uniformed Services University. In addition, she was the Chief Science Officer for The Avielle Foundation. She chaired the Board of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), is past president of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR), and a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Science and Health of DePaul University. She currently chairs the board of the Stop Abuse Campaign. Previously, she was the Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC. At Yale, she was Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health and was the Director and Co-PI of the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, which designed and implemented education in disaster preparedness, response and recovery. She served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the Office of the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN). She is a Past President of the American Public Health Association (APHA), the oldest and largest public health association in the world. Dr. Degutis, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, received a the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Alumni, has received the Distinguished Career and Public Service Awards from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of APHA, and was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. Her work has focused on public health policy, injury and violence, gun violence prevention, suicide prevention substance abuse and policy, as well as disaster preparedness and mitigation.
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- Director
- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
- Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, HPV Working Group at Yale; Director, CT Emerging Infections Program at Yale, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Linda Niccolai is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Yale School of Public Health. She currently serves as Director of the Connecticut Emerging Infections Program (EIP) at Yale and the HPV Vaccine Working Group at Yale.
Her research is focused on the epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases. Her current projects include a focus on human papillomavirus (HPV). Specifically, her research is designed to understand uptake, impact, and effectiveness of HPV vaccines with an emphasis on addressing health disparities. Recently her work has expanded to other vaccines including those in the adolescent platform. Her research methods include surveillance, behavioral and clinical epidemiology, and qualitative approaches. Her current projects are funded by National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For this work, she has been awarded the CDC Childhood Immunization Champion Award and the Yale Cancer Center Population Research Prize. As Director of the CT EIP at YSPH, she oversees a large program of public health surveillance and applied epidemiology research focused on respiratory viruses (including SARS-CoV-2), foodborne illness, healthcare associated infections at the community interface, and tickborne diseases. She has been teaching epidemiology methods courses to MPH, MS, and PhD students for over 20 years.
Linda Niccolai received her Sc.M. at Harvard School of Public Health and her Ph.D. at Tulane University. She is currently on the editorial board for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and has served as an adviser and reviewer for National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conferences and grant programs.
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
While I am relatively new to the School of Public Health and its Modeling Unit, I have been at Yale for some time, in the General Counsel's Office, in the Provost's Office, and most recently at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. I am a graduate of Manhattanville College, with subsequent credits in library science and from a local culinary school. I speak French, of the rusty kind, and understand Spanish, mas o menos.
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- Assistant Professor Adjunct Principal Investigator, Connecticut Emerging Infections Program Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases )
Lynne Rosenwald-Bannister, '77 M.P.H., Supportive Housing Works, System Coordinator. Lynne E. Bannister joined Supportive Housing WORKS after a long career in public health and social services in both the Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts area. She is currently the system coordinator for the Social Innovation Fund grant which pairs supportive housing with improved health outcomes for very vulnerable men and women. Prior to joining the organization, Lynne was a consultant with The Sable Group, Inc., in Weston, CT focusing on issues of diversity, health disparities and access to health care. Lynne attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and Windham College in Putney, VT where she received a B.A. in English Literature, she also earned an M.S. in Education from the University of Bridgeport, CT and an M.P.H. in Health Services Administration from Yale University in New Haven, CT. She has been an active board member of AYAPH since 1983 and has served as a member of the Diversity Committee, Secretary of the Emerging Majority Affairs Committee, Vice President and is presently the Treasurer for the Association. She is also a member of the Housatonic Community College Foundation and is a long-time tutor with Mercy Learning Center for Women in Bridgeport, CT.
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- Chief of Staff & Director of Strategic Initiatives
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
Mark Greenwold, B.A. '66, is an attorney in Washington, D.C. and Senior Consultant to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the leading global and national advocacy organization for tobacco control. Mr. Greenwold advises the Campaign on federal and state regulatory issues and represents a coalition of national public health groups in litigation regarding tobacco control. Mr. Greenwold also represents States and local governments in litigation against the tobacco industry. Previously, Mr. Greenwold served as the first Chief Counsel for Tobacco for the National Association of Attorneys General, where he represented all the States in the implementation and defense of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement of 1998. Mr. Greenwold had previously spent 27 years in private practice in Washington specializing in complex civil litigation. While in private practice he worked with the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs on matters ranging from asylum to disability rights.Mr. Greenwold graduated from Yale with a B.A. degree magna cum laude in History, the Arts and Letters in 1966 and from Harvard Law School with a J.D. degree cum laude in 1969. Mr. Greenwold served on the Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni and is a past President of the Yale Club of Washington. He is also classical pianist. He and his wife, Betty, reside in Washington, D.C. They have three children, Amanda, B.A. '92, J.D. '98, an attorney in Washington; Simon, B.S. '95, a computer engineer in Boston; and Diana, B.A. '05, an art museum curator in Portland, Maine. They also have five grandchildren.
Mary G. Lawrence, M.D., '98 M.P.H., is the Deputy Director of the Department of Defense/Veterans Affairs Vision Center of Excellence in Washington, DC. The center focuses on research, clinical care integration, education, information systems, and advocacy related to vision trauma, especially injuries and diseases of the eyes and visual system incurred while on Active Duty. Previously, Dr. Lawrence was a member of the faculty at University of Minnesota where she served on the Glaucoma Service and directed the Visual Rehabilitation Service. While in Minnesota, she was also the Associate Chief of Ophthalmology at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Prior to this time, Dr. Lawrence served at Harvard Medical School where she received the Residents Teacher of the Year Award and the Dean's Commendation for her teaching. Later she was awarded a Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. She received her B.A. in Chemistry from Mount Holyoke College and her M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Dr. Lawrence lives in Washington DC, and in NYC with her husband, James A. Lawrence, '74 B.A., Chief Executive Officer of Rothschild North America, in NY. They have three childre
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- Director of Admissions
- Director of Admissions, MPH Programs
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- Program Manager for the New England Public Health Training Center
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- Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Program Head
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- Research Asst. 2 HSS - FoodNet Surveillance Officer
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- Coordinator of Graduate Student Affairs
- Director of Admissions, MS / PhD Programs
Melanie H. Chitwood is a doctoral candidate in the Ted Cohen Lab. She is interested in using mathematical models to understand the transmission and prevalence of tuberculosis in high burden settings. She has previously worked as a Research Associate in the Cohen Lab, where she was involved in projects in Brazil and on COVID-19 estimates and projections. Melanie received her BA from Hampshire College and her MS in Global Health and Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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- Associate Dean of Research
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- Research Associate Internal Medicine General Medicine Research Associate II
- Social Work Researcher
Meredith Campbell Britton is a social work researcher specializing in qualitative research. Ms. Campbell Britton earned a master's degree in social work from Fordham University and bachelor's degree in psychology from Providence College. She is a licensed social worker and a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).
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- Human Resources Specialist
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- Director of Academic Affairs
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- Consultant at GE Healthcare Partners
Modupeore (Ore) Shenbanjo is a Consultant at GE Healthcare Partners where she focuses on hospital operations and health system transformation. Through her role, she collaborates with frontline staff, surgeons, cardiologists, directors and managers to improve the patient experience, staff and physician satisfaction.Prior to joining GE Healthcare Partners, Ore served as a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. In this role, she collaborated with various clients to improve information sharing, communication, and collaboration across patient-care teams. She concurrently took on the role of project management lead for several efforts aimed at improving the quality of care delivered across the Military Health System.As part of her summer internship, Ore served as a Project Officer at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust in the United Kingdom. Throughout her internship, Ore leveraged her analytic expertise to collaborate with the Director of Operations, Divisional Director of Surgery, and consulting physicians to assess and improve pathways for preoperative outcomes.Ore has also accrued experience in the healthcare setting through her role as an HIV test counselor and her work in Adolescent Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Across Ore's former roles, she has cultivated a passion for using mentorship and educational instruction to improve departmental communications, department culture, clinical operations, and, ultimately the patient experience.Ore holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Yale School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree from Case Western Reserve University.
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- Epidemiologist 3, Manager Project Coordinator / View Full Profile
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- Research Associate / Grants Coordinator
Ms. Rockiy G. Ayettey is a Research Associate/ Grants Coordinator at the PRC. Her role involves coordination of both clinical research studies activities and grant-related activities.
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- Faculty and Staff Recruitment Manager
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- Associate Professor of Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases ) Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Nathan Grubaugh joined the faculty at Yale School of Public Health in 2018. Before going to graduate school, he spent 7 years working in the biotech industry developing early phase vaccine candidates. He earned his MS in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University (2011) while conducting research at the NIH and the US Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (focus on mosquito-borne virus surveillance). Dr. Grubaugh earned his PhD in microbiology from Colorado State University in 2016 (focus on West Nile virus evolution), and went on to be a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute to study the 2015-2017 Zika virus epidemic. Now at Yale, the Grubaugh Lab uses genomics and phylogenetics to uncover the epidemiological, ecological, and evolutionary determinants of virus outbreaks. They primarily focus on mosquito- and tick-borne viruses, like dengue, West Nile, and Powassan, that are increasingly spreading into new areas and have high outbreak potential. The Grubaugh Lab is diverse and multidisciplinary, including expertise in molecular biology, phylogenetics, statistics, and mathematical modeling. His lab was critical during the COVID-19 response, from designing and evaluating diagnostics (such as SalivaDirect) to establishing the Yale SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance Initiative to track emerging variants. Expanding on this work, the lab is an academic partner for the Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence to foster and improve innovation and technical capacity in pathogen genomics, molecular epidemiology, and bioinformatics to better prevent, control, and respond to microbial threats of public health importance. Read more about their team and work at grubaughlab.com.
Nelba holds a Bachelor of Music from the Hartt School and a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from St. Joseph College. Nelba taught and supervised at the Family Therapy program at the University of Winnipeg's Aurora Family Therapy Centre and later worked as the Coordinator for Klingberg Family Therapy Center's outpatient child and adolescent psychiatric clinic. She also served as adjunct faculty at Central Connecticut State University. Nelba founded the CTAMFT (Connecticut Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) Diversity Committee and served on the CTAMFT Board of Directors. For her advocacy, she received the 2004 Minority Fellowship Award by the AAMFT, the 2004 Distinguished Professional Service Award, and the 2013 Service to Families Award by the CTAMFT. In 2017 she was awarded the Key to the Centre award at the Aurora family Therapy Centre in Winnipeg, MB. In 2018, she was profiled as one of "100 Women of Color" and a YWCA (CT) Women's Leadership Award recipient. She was featured in People Magazine's October 2019 issue as one of Ten Women Changing the World and also recognized by Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Clinton in their Book of Gutsy Women. Nelba has testified and advocated at the state and federal levels on many different mental health initiatives, hosted TEDx talks, and is a nationally sought after speaker. In the many years that have followed, stints in advocacy, public policy, community care, etc. have affirmed her core belief that in order to change the world through policy and research we must also take care of people. Public health practices can do both.
Nicholas Torsiello, '06 M.P.H., '14 Ph.D., EHE, Senior Analyst. Nick has been in the health care and analytics spaces for 14 years. He joined EHE in 2017 as Director of Analytics to help optimize internal and external data measurement, collection, and utilization. His previous experience includes working on health industry teams at the consultancies of McKinsey & Company, Willis Towers Watson, Booz Allen Hamilton, and The Advisory Board Company. There he served both private and public-sector clients - Medicaid, Medicare, NIH, and the VA system - on issues such as: provider reimbursement innovation (episode-based or value-based payments); clinical and information technology assessment, operations, and strategy; and self-insured employee benefits design and improvement. Nick earned a doctorate in health policy and economics from Yale University, where he earlier had completed a MPH in health care management. His undergraduate studies were in applied economics and business management at Cornell University.
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- Resident, Internal Medicine, Griffin Hospital
Pamela Sutton-Wallace, M.P.H. ‘97 is President of the Yale-New Haven Health System. Prior to joining YNHHS in July 2022, she was Group Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/Weill Cornell Division since 2019, providing strategic and operational oversight for the Weill Cornell, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens campuses. Pamela Sutton-Wallace is an accomplished health care executive with more than 25 years of experience in various sectors of the health care industry - most notably in academic medical centers. Prior to her appointment at NYPH, Pam served as the Chief Executive Officer for the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia from 2014-2020. Overseeing a $2.2B budget, she strategically led UVA Health in receiving several national recognitions in quality, safety, patient experience and team member engagement including being named the #1 hospital in Virginia by US News & World Report as well as receiving the Medical Center's first Leapfrog A score. Pam also worked at Duke University Health System in Durham North Carolina for 17 years in various leadership capacities including: Senior Vice President for Hospital Operations, Chief Operating Officer for Ambulatory Services, Vice President for Perioperative Services and Chief of Staff to the Chancellor for Health Affairs. Pam has also held positions in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries at Pfizer and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina, respectively. She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science and African-American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and graduated from Yale University School of Public Health with a Master of Public Health (MPH), completing her thesis with distinction. Pam has served on several professional and community boards including the Carol Emmott Foundation, Duke University School of Nursing Board of Visitors, America's Essential Hospitals and American Hospital Association Region 3 Policy Board to name a few. Additionally, Pam serves on the corporate board of J2 Global, an international digital media firm. Pam enjoys speaking to a wide array of audiences as well as mentoring and encouraging the next generation of leadership. A nationally recognized speaker and mentor, Pam has received several recent accolades, including the 2021 National Medical Fellowships Champion of Health Awards, the 2021 Yale School of Public Health's John D. Thompson Fellow Award and the 2016 AYAPH Winslow Centennial Honor Roll for Excellence and Service, was named by Modern Healthcare as Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare 2019, Top 25 Minority Health Executives in Healthcare 2018 and Top 10 Minorities to Watch 2016 as well as lauded by Becker's Hospital Review as Top 50 African-Americans in Healthcare in 2018 and 2019, and one of the Top 10 Women in Healthcare.
President Peter Salovey and Megan Ranney, dean of Yale School of Public Health, discuss a public health approach to the gun violence epidemic and her bold, inclusive vision for YSPH as it transitions into an independent school.
Priscilla (Penny) F. Canny, '83 Ph.D., has extensive experience as a nonprofit leader with a particular passion for research and data analysis. She is President of the Board of Data Haven, an online comprehensive source for data about the Greater New Haven area. She has served as Senior Vice President for Grantmaking and Strategy at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, leading the Foundation's efforts to build community knowledge and information. Prior to The Community Foundation, she was managing director and director of research at Connecticut Voices for Children, a research-based policy and advocacy organization. Before joining Connecticut Voices for Children, Dr. Canny was assistant dean for the Yale School of Public Health where she also earned a Ph.D. in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and worked for many years as a senior research associate. She maintains an appointment at Yale's School of Public Health.
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- Director
- Principal Investigator
- Professor of Public Health, and Director of the Office of Public Health Practice
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Health, and Director of the Office of Public Health Practice, the Global Health Concentration, and the Maternal Child Health Promotion track at the Yale School of Public Health. He is the PI of the Yale-Griffin CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC). His global public health nutrition and food security research program, supported with over $70 million in extramural funds, has contributed to improvements in breastfeeding and other maternal, infant and young child nutrition outcomes, iron deficiency anemia among infants, household food security, and early childhood development. He has co-led innovative mixed-methods implementation studies assessing the impact of community health worker person centered interventions on breastfeeding, type-2 diabetes, post-partum hypertension and mental health outcomes among in vulnerable communities, including people of color in the U.S. He has published over 340 research articles, 3 books/monographs, and numerous journal supplements, book chapters, and technical reports. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (elected in 2019) and served in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Food and Nutrition Board from 2012-18. He has been a senior advisor to maternal-child community nutrition programs as well as household food security measurement projects funded by the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the U.S. Agency for International Development, The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH),The World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Governments across world regions. He obtained his BS in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and his MS in Food Science and his PhD in Nutrition from the University of California at Davis. His postdoctoral training at UC Davis focused on the link between nutrition and early childhood development.
Rebecca is an impact-driven public health professional working at the nexus of artificial intelligence, digital technology, and global health. She has spent the last decade building strategic partnerships and programs with non-profits, governments, companies, and foundations to advance healthcare across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Rebecca currently serves as Strategist for AI, Data, and Digital Health at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a philanthropy committed to bridging the frontiers of artificial intelligence, data science, and social impact. Her prior work includes advising on digital ID for COVID-19 vaccination and testing, leading a $3M+ portfolio of AI and digital ID projects, and supporting the launch of government partnerships to fund and advance early stage technology in global health. Rebecca holds a Masters in Health Policy and Global Health from the Yale School of Public Health and a BA in Political Science from Yale University. She is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and was previously selected as a Forbes Ignite Impact Fellow, AI XPRIZE Semi-Finalist, and Gavi INFUSE Pacesetter.
Rebecca Katz, M.P.H. '98, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, and holds joint appointments in Georgetown University Medical Center and the School of Foreign Service. She teaches courses on global health diplomacy, global health security, and emerging infectious diseases in the Science, Technology and International Affairs, Security Studies, and Global Infectious Disease Programs. Prior to coming to Georgetown in 2016, she spent ten years at The George Washington University as faculty in the Milken Institute School of Public Health. From 2004 to 2019, Dr. Katz was a consultant to the Department of State, working on issues related to the Biological Weapons Convention, pandemic influenza and disease surveillance. She returned to the Department of State in January 2021 as a senior advisor on the global COVID-19 response and global health security. Dr. Katz received her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, an M.P.H. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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- Project Manager With the Office of Population Health
Rebecca Lakew is a project manager with the Office of Population Health at NYC Health + Hospitals
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- Associate Professor of Public Health ( Health Policy ) Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science
Dr. Yaesoubi's research focuses on medial decision making and model-based evaluation of health policies. His work incorporates mathematical and computer simulation models, machine learning methods, and optimization techniques to guide resource allocation and decision making in public health and health delivery systems. He has applied these methods in estimating the impact of different strategies to reduce the prevalence of alcohol-exposed pregnancies, conducting cost-effectiveness analyses of colorectal cancer screening strategies, estimating societal willingness-to-pay for health, and characterizing performance-based payment systems for preventive care systems. His current work mainly focuses on optimizing public health responses to control the spread of infectious diseases including COVID-19, influenza, meningitis, and drug-resistant tuberculosis and gonorrhea. He is also interested in theoretical and methodological issues in medical decision-making and health care resource allocation.
Richard Gliklich BA '83 is CEO of OM1, a data, outcomes and technology company focused on organizing health information to support medical research, outcomes measurement and personalized medicine, especially for chronic diseases. Dr. Gliklich is also the Leffenfeld Professor, part-time, in the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear where he has been a surgeon on the faculty since completing his training. Prior to OM1, Dr. Gliklich was an executive in residence with General Catalyst Partners focused on investments in healthcare companies. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Outcome, which he led from inception through its acquisition by Quintiles. Dr. Gliklich is well known in the areas of registries, outcomes and analytics. He is senior editor of the landmark publication by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) handbook "Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide" and leads the Outcomes Measures Framework, which focuses on standardization of outcomes measurement.Dr. Gliklich holds patents in medical outcomes systems and medical devices. He received his B.A. from Yale University (Summa Cum Laude) and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
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- Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration
Robert Steele, '71 M.P.H., '74 M.S., '75 Ph.D., recently retired Director of the Office for Diversity Initiatives at the Graduate School of the University of Maryland. From 2004 until June 2012 Steele served as the Executive Director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park. Under Dr. Steele's leadership, the Center became nationally known in the field of African American Visual Arts. Prior to that, he held several positions at University of Maryland, College Park including Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology and Associate Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Steele has written and contributed to several publications in the field of African American Art, including several entries in the St. James Guide to Black Artists. In addition, Dr. Steele has a number of advisory and board memberships, such as the Governing Board of the Yale University Gallery of Art, the Board of Directors of the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta and the Founder of the National Black Arts Festival's Collectors Guild, the Advisory Committee of the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, the Advisory Board of Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper at Rutgers University and the Board of Director of Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia. Steele is also a member of the Collectors Club of Washington, D.C., Inc. and the New York Print Club. At Yale, Steele endowed the Robert E. & Jean E. Steele Scholarship Fund. He also helped to establish the Creed/Patton/Steele Endowed Scholarship for minority students at the School of Public Health. His Yale service includes membership on the Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni and the former presidency of the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health. He is currently spearheading efforts to raise funds for an internship at the Yale University Art Gallery. Steele was awarded the Yale Medal in November of 2012.
Rock G. Positano, DPM, MSc, MPH, DSc has been on staff at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) since 1991 and is internationally known for his non-surgical approach for the treatment of foot disorders. He serves in the capacity of Founder and Co-Director of the Non-Surgical Foot and Ankle Service and the Joe DiMaggio Heel Pain Center at HSS. In addition to being a faculty member of Yale University's School of Public Health, he is also on staff at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and Lenox Hill/Northwell Health. Dr. Positano was featured on the front page of The New York Times in an article concerning the dangers of cosmetic foot surgery, and was recently featured in the Times as a contributing physician on the harsh impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on feet and ankles. It was in this article that he coined the phrase "pandemic foot". He has authored and edited numerous peer-reviewed articles and has served as the editor of over a dozen medical textbooks ranging from foot and ankle orthopedics, heel disorders, to sports medicine. His thesis on Foot Health was approved "With Honors" and "With Distinction" by the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Public Health in 1989. Outside of the world of medicine, Dr. Positano is also a published and celebrated author. His recent books include Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories Of An American Hero by Simon & Schuster, and most recently, in October 2022, released his book Street Smart, also by Simon & Schuster. Street Smart features memoirs by dozens of acclaimed individuals including Dr. Anthony Fauci, Arianna Huffington, Michael Imperioli, and others. Dr. Positano also works as an executive music producer, having worked alongside Grammy Award winners Phil Ramone, Jack Douglas, and Neil Young. His most recent record release is the Cowsills' Rhythm of the World, released in September 2022 by Omnivore Records. Referring to his love for both healthcare and the arts, Dr. Positano calls it "the tether that centers both my left brain and right brain." To show his support for Yale University's School of Public Health, Dr. Positano launched a scholarship fund, the Positano Scholarship Fund. Through the program, Dr. Positano hopes to aid future medical professionals in following the doctor's footsteps in prioritizing management of musculoskeletal conditions without surgery.
Roger Barnett, '86 B.A., '89 J.D. is the Chairman and CEO of Shaklee Corporation. Founded in 1956, Shaklee is a leading natural nutrition company in the U.S., with more than 2 million members and distributors principally in North America and Asia. In 2000, Shaklee became the first company in the world to be certified to fully offset its carbon emissions so as to leave no footprint on our planet. Mr. Barnett began his career at the investment banking firm Lazard Freres & Co. He then organized an investment group to acquire control of Arcade, Inc., which he transformed into the largest sampling company in the world, expanding from a solely U.S. operation into a global business. He was also the founder and Chairman and CEO of Beauty.com, which was one of the first internet retailers in the cosmetics industry.Mr. Barnett received his undergraduate degree from Yale College (Summa Cum Laude), his law degree from Yale Law School (Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal), and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Barnett has been selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (Davos) and has also been selected as a Young Leader Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Additionally, Mr. Barnett serves as a member of the Harvard and Yale Schools of Public Health Leadership Councils, the University Council of Yale University, the Yale University President's Council on International Activities, the Board of Directors of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, and the Advisory Board of 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai's The Green Belt Movement.
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- Postdoctoral Affairs Coordinator
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- Managing Director and Executive Advisor of the Center for Market Access
Ryan Saadi, M.D., '95 M.P.H., is Chief Executive Officer and founder of Tevogen Bio. Ryan also serves as Managing Director and Executive Advisor of the Center for Market Access and Medical Innovation, a cross-sector educational initiative which seeks to promote sustainable medical innovation, improve patient access, inform policy-making, and foster talent development.Ryan points to his unyielding passion for ending health inequity, his unique ability to unite normally siloed parties under a common cause, and his "irrational optimism" as the driving force behind his success and the recent formation of Tevogen Bio, whose mission is to be the first public health centric biotechnology company, bringing affordable personalized medicines to the masses.He joined the Leadership Council of the Yale School of Public Health in 2021.
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- Web Coordinator at the Yale School of Public Health
Sabrina Lacerda is the Web Coordinator at the Yale School of Public Health. Some of her top priorities are making sure everyone can easily access information on YSPH's website and helping share the work of its members. In addition to assisting in building or maintaining websites, she creates graphic designs, develops newsletters, and coordinates video productions. As the school transitions to a new CMS platform in the coming year, Sabrina takes on a key responsibility in refining the website, ensuring its content is updated, accurate, consistent, and visually engaging. Her efforts are integral to facilitating a seamless transition. Prior to joining the Yale community, Sabrina worked for eight years in Brazil, where she was in various roles related to digital marketing, event planning, and website management.
Sam K. Srivastava, Council Chair, is the chief executive officer of WCG Clinical, a global leader of clintech solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research and enables biopharma, CROs and institutions to accelerate the delivery of new treatments and therapies to patients. He is a transformative leader with a proven track record of driving growth and innovation in healthcare. Prior to WCG, Sam served as chief executive officer of NeueHealth, a tech-enabled, risk bearing care delivery company with over 1M consumers across 17 states through owned clinics, partnered affiliates and high performing value-based networks. Sam was also chief executive officer of Magellan Healthcare, a leading behavioral, specialty and pharmacy management company serving 50M consumers worldwide. During his tenure, the company doubled in size by launching the nation's first health plan for the seriously mentally ill, developing digital therapeutics and advanced illness programs. Prior to that, he worked at Cigna Healthcare as president of the national employer and Medicare businesses. He also led US strategy and development, that included the acquisition of HealthSpring and the launch of Cigna Ventures. Sam has held executive positions at UnitedHealth Group and HealthNet (Centene). He also served as a management consultant in the US and Europe, developing integrated delivery systems for providers, insurers and governments. Sam serves as the Yale School of Public Health advisory council chair and Recovery Centers of America board director. He is a frequent national speaker and has testified to Congress regarding the opioid crisis aiding in the passage of the bipartisan Support Act. Sam graduated from Kent State University with Bachelor of Arts in medical science and humanities and completed graduate work at Yale University in health care management. He is married to Dr. Lisbet S. Lundsberg, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Medicine. They have four daughters and reside in Wilton, Connecticut.
Samantha Dean is a fourth year biostatistics PhD student. She is interested in statistical methods for infectious disease epidemiology and causal inference. She currently works with Professor Forrest Crawford and Professor Laura Forastiere. Previously, she worked as a Postbac IRTA fellow in the Epidemiology Unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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- Post Award Manager, International Research Administration
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
Sarah Vidal, '00 M.P.H., Sherwin B. Nuland Foundation for Palliative Care, Executive Director. Sarah Vidal is an experienced healthcare executive. She has worked for 20+ years in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors with focus in strategy, analytics and marketing.
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- Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases ) Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
- Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Dr Redmond is an Associate Research Scientist in the department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health. His research focuses on population genetics and genomic surveillance of vector borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue. At YSPH, his work primarily focuses on developing novel informatic techniques and genomic assays to inform disease control in both vector-borne and respiratory pathogens under the aegis of the CDC's Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence, in particular the application of amplicon sequencing assays to inform longitudinal studies of disease transmission.
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- Administrative Assistant
- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Vice President
- Associate Principal Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology
Shazia Khawaja is an Associate Principal Scientist in the department of Epidemiology at Merck, Sharpe & Dohme Corp., located in Upper Gwynedd, PA. She received her B.A. in Biology from Lehigh University in 1998 and M.P.H. in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale in 2004. Upon graduation, Shazia joined Merck as an Epidemiology Program Coordinator, assisting with executing primary data collection studies, developing patient reported outcomes and representing Epidemiology on cross functional teams. Currently, she is in a management position and her main responsibilities include supervising employees, coordinating epidemiology studies and leading strategic initiatives. During her time at Merck, she obtained her Six Sigma Green Belt and has received 12 awards for her contribution on various projects. In addition, she published articles including those on the RotaTeq® Nicaragua Partnership and vaccine report card.
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- Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health
- Associate Professor of Epidemiology ( Chronic Diseases )
Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health, faculty member of Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center, and faculty member of Public Health Modeling Concentration, Yale School of Public Health. His primary interests focus on outcomes research and decision science. He is interested in combining systematic literature reviews, secondary data analyses, and simulation modeling to examine issues that are critical to clinicians and policy makers' decision making. He has been working on several breast cancer projects, including an evaluation of preoperative breast MRI, development of an individualized decision aid to help radiotherapy decision-making, and assessment of sentinel lymph node biopsy for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ. He is also evaluating end-of-life care quality. He has served as the primary investigator or co-investigator in several projects (funded by Yale Cancer Center, AHRQ, NCI, ACS, and PCORI).
Shuqi Lin is a master student in Biostatistics-data science pathway. She is interested in spatial modeling and Bayesian statistics.
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- Associate Research Scientist in Public Health ( Health Policy )
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- Director of Student Affairs and Registrar
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- Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases )
The surveillance and epidemiology of vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases, especially pneumococcal disease, is my passion. I want to determine how to efficiently and effectively protect populations from pneumococcal disease, both invasive (bacteremia, meningitis) and non-invasive (otitis media, non-bacteremic pneumonia). I'm interested in respiratory disease surveillance, serotype replacement, antibiotic resistance, vulnerable populations, vaccine schedules, vaccine advocacy, and overcoming vaccine hesitancy. You can find me on Twitter @StephPerniciaro.
Currently, Susan Choy leads product strategy for Dropbox's business development team. Susan has had a variety of experiences in product, partnerships, and consulting across industries at Meta, Amazon, Deloitte, and UBS. She is interested in using tech to scale impact and unlock access to opportunities within communities. Susan is a graduate of the Healthcare Management Program and holds certificates in Regulatory Affairs; Global Health; and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. While at Yale, Susan was the student commencement speaker and co-chaired the YSPH Class Gift Committee, rallying the class around the "10 Days, 100 Donors" campaign. Susan is a proud Bostonian and holds a BS in Management from Boston College.
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
Tassos Kyriakides, '96 M.Phil., '99 Ph.D., Yale School of Public Health, Associate Research Scientist. Dr. Kyriakides collaborates with clinical researchers on numerous research projects and he provides statistical consulting on numerous research protocols. He has been an abstract mentor for young researchers at the International AIDS Conferences since 2012, leads the VACSPCC internship program and is a statistical reviewer for high-impact medical journals (Lancet Infectious Diseases and the Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology). He is the Director at the Department of Veterans' Affairs Cooperative Studies Program (VACSPCC-West Haven) and has worked, as a Senior Biostatistician, on pivotal clinical trials (The OPTIMA Trial, a multi-national HIV/AIDS treatment clinical trial; a surgical clinical trial (The OVER Trial); and a PTSD clinical trial (The VIP-STAR Trial). Even though his primary research focus is in the area of infectious diseases with particular emphasis on HIV/AIDS and its treatment, he has an interest in the history of medicine, social determinants of health and the socio-cultural dimension of the benefits of Greek/Mediterranean nutrition. He has recently been certified as an Olive Oil Sommelier by the International Culinary Center and the Olive Oil Education Lab in NY City.
Dr. Cohen is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose primary research focus is tuberculosis. He is particularly interested in understanding how TB drug-resistance and medical comorbidities such as HIV frustrate current efforts to control epidemics, with an ultimate goal of developing more effective approaches to limit the morbidity caused by this pathogen. Dr. Cohen's training is in epidemiology and clinical medicine, and his work includes mathematical modeling, fieldwork, and analysis of programmatic data. His research program is currently funded by NIH and US CDCAwards.
Thomas Dubin '19 MPH is a pharmaceutical executive and attorney. From 2001 through 2013 he was the Chief Legal Officer and a member of the core executive team that grew Alexion Pharmaceuticals from development stage to membership in the S&P 500. At Alexion, Tom led legal, government affairs, pricing and reimbursement, corporate communications, and other functions, and he held commercial responsibility for the company's Australasia region. Prior to Alexion, Tom served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of ChiRex, Inc., an international corporation providing advanced process development services and specialty manufacturing to the pharmaceutical industry. Tom began his career as a corporate attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. He is a past Director of BioBlast Pharmaceuticals (NASD: ORPN), on the Advisory Board of Mythic Pharmaceuticals, Trustee of American Jewish World Service, and has been elected Vice Chair of Norwalk Hospital (term begins January, 2020). He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he received the American Jurisprudence Prize in securities law, and his B.A. from Amherst College, cum laude.
Tim Mercer is the the inaugural holder of the JP's Peace, Love & Happiness Family Foundation Endowed Chair in the Department of Population Health. He is also a primary care physician for the Health Care for the Homeless program with CommUnityCare, Austin's largest federally qualified health center.Fundamentally, he is interested in solving health system challenges and promoting health through community-engaged scholarship and service to improve access, quality and equity in health for vulnerable populations globally and locally. In addition to his clinical practice, teaching and mentoring, he implements and evaluates health system and community-based programs and conducts implementation research. He has raised over $10 million in federal, corporate, foundation and philanthropic funding, serving as project director or principal investigator of multiple projects and partnerships to achieve these goals.At Dell Med, Mercer leads the global health program, which aims to leverage the academic missions of service, education and research to improve health and advance health equity for vulnerable populations globally, while building interdisciplinary collaborations to address social and structural determinants of health, strengthen health systems and cultivate globally minded leaders. Under his leadership, Dell Med has joined the Academic Model Providing Access to Health Care (AMPATH) Consortium in Eldoret, Kenya. AMPATH is one of the world's most successful academic global health programs, a 30-year-long academic partnership between Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya and a consortium of North American academic medical centers led by Indiana University. Mercer also leads The University of Texas at Austin in the first replication effort of the AMPATH paradigm in partnership with Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and the Mexican Ministry of Health to strengthen primary health care and address chronic diseases in low-income, rural communities in the State of Puebla, Mexico, and generate shared lessons for improving the health of populations on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.Locally, he leads a variety of efforts to enhance access to care and improve health outcomes among individuals experiencing homelessness and other vulnerable populations. To this end, he is the director of the Mobile Medical and Mental Health Care Team, or M3 Team, which is an innovative, mobile, integrated care team that focuses on individuals with chronic homelessness and tri-morbid serious mental illnesses, substance use disorders and chronic medical conditions. He is also the co-principal investigator of a project using implementation science to scale up treatment for Hepatitis C among people experiencing homelessness. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has worked with a broad community coalition to lead a robust and effective response to address and prevent COVID-19 among individuals experiencing homelessness. More recently, he leads efforts at Dell Med alongside community health workers to increase access to COVID vaccinations for vulnerable populations, address social determinants of health and increase access to primary care. Originally from Canada, Mercer moved to the U.S. at a young age and was raised in a small town in northeast Indiana. He went on to study biology and philosophy at Butler University and received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine. He earned a master's degree in public health with a focus in social and behavioral sciences from the Yale School of Public Health and then completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Duke University Medical Center. Following his training, and prior to joining the faculty at Dell Med, he served for two years as the medicine team leader for AMPATH, holding joint faculty positions in the departments of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya. He is an active participant in the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Association of Chiefs and Leaders in General Internal Medicine - of which the latter he was selected as a scholar in the 2021-2022 cohort of the LEAD leadership development program. He also serves on the Austin Travis County EMS Advisory Board. He has won several teaching awards and has been recognized by Dell Med and the Travis County Medical Society for his community impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two children, and he is an avid runner who loves food and enjoys traveling across three continents to spend time with extended family.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President, Communications and Business Development at Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Executive Vice President, Communications and Business Development at Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director of Admissions, MPH Programs
Professor Manshadi's research interests include real-time decision-making and dynamic optimization under uncertainty with various applications, such as online markets, health-care operations, and maritime port logistics, as well as matching markets and social networks.
Dr. Njike's principal research interests involve methodological design, conduct, and analysis of clinical studies in chronic disease prevention.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases ) Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale School of Public Health As an Assistant Professor
Virginia Pitzer, joined the Yale School of Public Health as an assistant professor in 2012. She earned her Sc.D. in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2007, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) and a postdoctoral fellow in the Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) program at the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health prior to coming to Yale.Pitzer's work focuses on mathematical modeling of the transmission dynamics of imperfectly immunizing infections and how interventions such as vaccination, improved treatment of cases, and improvements in sanitation affect disease transmission at the population level. Her primary research is in rotavirus, (one of the leading causes of severe diarrhea in children in developed and developing countries) for which two new vaccines have been recently introduced. She is also interested in the spatiotemporal dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus and evaluating control options for typhoid fever. Her paper Demographic Variability, Vaccination, and the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Rotavirus Epidemics appeared in Science magazine in 2009.
Job Titles:
- Senior Administrative Assistant
- Senir Administrative Assistant
William B. Schultz, ‘70 B.A., is a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, where he focuses on complex regulatory litigation and provides strategic advice to companies and public interest organizations. He has worked for many years on reducing the use of tobacco products and controlling prescription drug prices. He also represents small biotechnology and generic drug companies, and individual scientists. Between 2011 and 2016, he was General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services. He is a member of the Committee on Science, Law and Technology, National Academy of Sciences, and for 10 years he taught at Georgetown University Law Center. He also is on the Board of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Board of the National Health Law Program and the Board of Trustees of Partners in Health. He was Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice (1999-2000), Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Food and Drug Administration (1994-1999), and Counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment (Rep. Henry A. Waxman, chairman), Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives (1989-1994). From 1976 to 1989, Bill worked as a public interest lawyer at Public Citizen Litigation Group. He began his legal career clerking for Judge William B. Bryant, U.S. District Court, D.C. Bill received his undergraduate degree from Yale College and his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Yichi Zhang is a third year PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics. He is interested in developing causal inference methodology for epidemiology. He currently works with Professor Forrest Crawford. Prior to coming to Yale, he obtained his bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Fudan University.
Dr. Lan is a spatial epidemiologist and health geographer who works on understanding and visualizing space-time transmission patterns in infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and tuberculosis.
Yuna Lee, ‘09 M.P.H., '17 Ph.D., Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management. Her research focuses on how health care organizations can foster creativity and innovation from clinicians, staff, and patients to promote better patient and employee experiences and improved performance. She has received national recognition for her work, including awards from the Academy of Management, AcademyHealth, Industry Studies Association, and Emerald Publishing. She is a member of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) research team and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. At the Columbia Mailman School, Dr. Lee teaches Managerial and Organizational Behavior to graduate students and executives in the Master of Health Administration program. She is the inaugural recipient of the School's Judson Wolfe Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Lee holds a MPH in Healthcare Management and a PhD in Health Policy and Management, with a concentration in Organizational Theory and Management, both from Yale University. Prior to academia, she managed special projects for the Executive Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and has experience working in public health departments, academic medical centers, consultancies and research thinks tanks, in New York City and internationally.