YCAS - Key Persons
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- Institutional Research Analyst
Alicia J. Whittington, PhD, MPH, is a research scientist and assistant director of engagement and health equity research for the Football Players Health Study at Harvard Medical School. She is also the co-lead of a new research initiative, Family Experiences Managing Football Lives, also known as FEM-FL. Alicia is an experienced healthcare consultant and has several years of research experience, including her role as project director of the Longevity Consortium at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco. She attended Wellesley College and created her own public health major, focusing on women's health and biological sciences. After college, she conducted research at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She earned a Master of Public Health in chronic disease epidemiology from Yale University.Alicia earned a Doctor of Philosophy in health systems management from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She focused on health disparities, health outcomes, and sports injuries research. She completed her dissertation research on "Concussion Education and Perceptions of Injury Risk among High School Football Players" and graduated with honors. In addition to playing the violin, she enjoys reading, writing, crafting, photography, traveling, serving on multiple boards, mentoring youth, and learning something new every day.
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- Senior Administrative Assistant School of Public Health Senior Administrative Assistant II
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- Development Coordinator / Yale School of Public Health
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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.
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.
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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
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- Biostatistician Core Co - Leader, Geriatrics Staff
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- Manager, Administrative Services
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- Associate Director Technology & Systems Development Center for Medical Informatics Associate Director for Technology and System Development / Bioinformatics
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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.
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.
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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.
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- Senior Director of Advancement
- Senior Director of Development and Alumni Affairs / Yale School of Public Health
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- Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science Vice Chair for Education, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Dr. Brandt completed a general Preventive Medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in 1989 and a post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the National Library of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 1997. She is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on issues related to the design, development and use of informatics tools in the domain of clinical research, as well as health services research.
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Desktop Support Technician
- IT Support Specialist
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- Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics
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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- Managing Partner, Court Square
David Thomas, Managing 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 Conterra Broadband, Golden State Medical Supply, Momentum Telecom, Mspark, National Seating & Mobility, and Smart City. He most recently served on the boards of Fibertech Networks, Harvard Drug Group, Wyle, 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, NCI, Neenah Foundry, Pamida Stores, People Express Airlines, Smith Alarm, Worldspan, York International, and Zatarain's.
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- Coordinator
- Alumni Affairs Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor of Clinical 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.
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- Co - Director / Professor of Biostatistics
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- Member of the Corrine Liu - Health Care Management Team
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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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- 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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- 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.
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- Member of the Corrine Liu - Health Care Management Team
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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- Director of Finance and Compliance
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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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- Research Scientist in Biostatistics
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.
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- Research Scientist in Biostatistics
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- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
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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
Over twenty-five years of experience in higher education. For the past twenty years, has served in dean-level positions in student affairs at both Yale University and The Catholic University of America; providing experience in organizational leadership, strategic planning, policy development and implementation, program development, curriculum development and review, accreditation preparation, budget preparation and allocation, student development and counseling, and higher educational law. Teaches courses in student personnel services in higher education (online), and educational leadership theory and development. Research focus is on the relationship between educational leadership and motivation.
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.
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- Building Operations Coordinator
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- Associate Director
- Co - Director
- Senior Biostatistician
- Co - Director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core
- Leader, Data Management
- Professor
Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and of Biostatistics; Leader, Data Management and Statistics Core, Yale Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Internal Medicine; Co-director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core of the Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Precision Medicine focused on Health Disparities, Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Precision Medicine ; Associate Director of Gerontologic Biostatistical Methods, Internal Medicine: Geriatrics; Senior Biostatistician and Epidemiologist, Internal Medicine: Rheumatology; Co-Director of Biostatistical Core, Internal Medicine: Geriatrics
The focus of my research collaborations and methodological development work as previous Director of Biostatistics at the Yale Program on Aging for 12 years and current Leader of the Yale Alzheimer's Disease Research Center's Data Management and Statistics Core. I founded the field of Gerontological Biostatistic. I lead the Design and Statistics Core of Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer's Disease and AD-Related Dementias Clinical Trials Collaboratory. I am Co-director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core of the Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Precision Medicine focused on Health Disparities, especially adults with multiple chronic conditions. I co-authored a paper on health disparities in the Decadal Survey of Behavioral and Social Science Research on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias. My innovated analytic methods include joint trajectories of cognition, function and mortality. Innovative designs and biostatistical methods are required to rigorously address the myriad of unanswered scientific questions related to older adults and persons with dementia, including risk prediction. With over 240 peer-reviewed articles and continuous NIH funding since 2000, my research has focused on issues related to the design of clinical trials for and studies of older adults. These and other methodologic advances resulted in me being an invited speaker at an NIH/NIA conference on Longitudinal Methods and another on Clinical Trial Design. In 2017 and 2020, I co-chaired the Study Design and Metrics component of the NIH meeting on the 21st Century Cures Act: Inclusion Across the Lifespan I and II. I previously chaired the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center's Data Cores Steering Committee, member of the Executive Committee, and Co-Lead of the Data and Measures Committee of the NIA-funded AGING Initiative, which is a collaboration of Older Americans Independence Centers and the Healthcare Systems Research Network. I have a wealth of experience conducting epidemiologic studies and am a recognized authority on longitudinal statistical methods, including extended Cox models for state transitions, generalized estimating equations, mixed effects models, latent class trajectory models, and joint models. A defining hallmark of my biostatistical approach is that instead of developing analytic methods in the absence of a clinical question or adapting the study question to available analytical techniques, I adapt new statistical methods that suitably model the specific study question.
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- Assistant Director, Student Affairs
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- Chief of Staff
- Chief of Staff, YSPH Office of the Dean
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.
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- Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Genetics and Professor of Statistics and Data Science Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Jackson Higginbottom, MPH, is a program administrator at the Yale School of Public Health. His work focuses on community health engagement research, program evaluation, and health communications at the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) and Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. His primary research interests include: (1) investigating the social determinants of mental and physical health among sexual, ethnic and racial minorities; and (2) developing and evaluating evidence-based interventions to address health needs of under-resourced communities. Prior to his work at Yale, Jackson was heavily involved with free medical clinics 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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- Co - Director
- Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Biostatistics and of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) Co - Director, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences ( YCAS ) Director, Yale Data Coordinating Center
Jim is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at YMS. As a biostatistician at Yale since 2002 he has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles with a diverse group of Yale investigators. Dr. Dziura also serves as the Deputy Director of both the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS) and the Yale Data Coordinating Center (YDCC) in the Yale School of Public Health. He has been active in training young investigators, both individually (as a mentor and statistical resource for K-awardees, post-doctoral fellows, residents and Master's students) and in the classroom (where he has developed a graduate-level course and several workshops on biostatistics in clinical research). His primary research interests are in the coordination of multicenter clinical trials. Over the past ten years he has overseen data coordinating and biostatistical efforts for several trials. Notably, he served as the PI of the data coordinating center for the RUPP Autism Network study of Guanfacine for the treatment of hyperactivity. He is the Director of the Data Coordinating Center for the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT), a multicenter longitudinal study developing reproducible experimental biomarkers (e.g. from EEG, eye tracking) for use as stratification factors and outcomes in clinical trials.He is a senior biostatistician (and unblinded statistician for the DSMB) for the Data Coordinating Center of a large pragmatic cluster-randomized trial for the prevention of serious fall injuries (STRIDE) in 6,000 older persons from 86 health care practices.
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- Communications Officer
- Communications Officer at Yale School of Public Health
As a communications officer at Yale School of Public Health, Jane promotes the work of the school's faculty and students in a variety of publications including Yale Public Health magazine, Yale News, the YSPH website, and various newsletters. Before joining YSPH, Jane was a content specialist at Yale School of Medicine, where she wrote on a range of topics for internal and external audiences. A prolific writer, Jane published widely read articles on topics including why shortness of breath persists in some people with long Covid-19, and a study that showed that the diabetes drug, tirzepatide, resulted in more than 20% weight reduction in individuals with obesity. Jane has 20+ years of experience in journalism, marketing, and communications. Before arriving at Yale in 2018, she worked at The Hartford Courant as a reporter and magazine writer before accepting a new role in the company's business division promoting the newsroom's work to readers.
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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- Chairman
- Department Chair and Professor of Public Health ( Health Policy )
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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.
Jeannie Mantopoulos, '08 M.P.H., Resolve To Save Lives, Chief Operating Officer. In this role, she provides leadership and management to promote operational excellence in Resolve's two components: Resolve to Save 100 Million Lives and Resolve to Prevent Epidemics. Jeannie is a global public health professional with over 10 years of management experience developing strategy, cultivating strong partnerships, and leading programs that are practical, evidence-based, and tailored to specific needs.Prior to joining Resolve to Save Lives, Jeannie served as Director of Programs for Yale University's Global Health Leadership Institute, where she was responsible for managing a large global team, grant development, program design, and leading implementation of the institute's global health initiatives in Africa, Asia, UK, and the US. Jeannie led the establishment of Yale University's first country office for field operations and oversaw leadership programs that trained mid- and senior level health professionals in over 20 countries, including the first master's degree program in healthcare administration in Africa (at Jimma University, Ethiopia). Jeannie maintains a lectureship appointment with the Yale School of Public Health and is an International Advisory Committee Member for World of Children. Jeannie has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Hunter College and her Master of Public Health from the Yale School of Public Health.
Jenny Ozor (MPH'19, Health Policy) is passionate about fostering mentorship connections between alumni and students and is excited to serve as an EMAC committee member. She is currently based in Washington D.C., working as a Senior Public Policy Analyst. Her public health interests include maternal health, health equity, and access to quality health care. During 2018-2019, she served as the Co-President for the Emerging Majority Students Association (EMSA) and was a part of the team that created the inaugural YSPH Alumni of Color Panel and Networking Reception along with the Emerging Majority Affairs Committee.
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- Unit Director
- Statistician 3 Biostatistician
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- Professor of Public Health ( Health Policy )
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- Associate Professor of Biostatistics
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).
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- Senior Business Systems Analyst
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- Administrative Assistant
- Senior Administrative Assistant
Kathe P. Fox, PhD 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 a member 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. Over the last six years Kathe has 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 offers claims experience on 70+ M members over ten years. Researchers have 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 Board of axialhealthcare.
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- Assistant Director for Development and Alumni Affairs
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- Research Associate 3 Program Manager
- Research Associate With the Community Alliance for Research & Engagement
Katherine LaMonaca is a Research Associate with 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 Public Health Workforce Development and Distance Learning
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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 examines the social, biological, behavioral, and structural barriers to health equity. Over the past two decades, her work included extensive interactions with schools and community-based organizations to improve health and education outcomes. From large scale multi-national projects, to local community-based programs, she has designed and collaborated on research studies and evaluations assessing and addressing social determinants of 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 was one of the lead developers and co-director of the Community Interventions in Health (CIH) study, the multinational study on chronic disease prevention, from which CARE's research in schools and neighborhoods evolved. She was responsible for grant development across sites (India, China, Mexico), survey and protocol development, operations, implementation, and evaluation. Locally, she serves on committees related to New Haven's health assessments, community partnerships, and food insecurity in Greater New Haven. Additionally, Dr. O'Connor Duffany is co-lead of C3E (CARE Center for Community Evaluation), an evaluation center designed to meet assessment and evaluation needs of agencies in Greater New Haven.
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- Director of Research Administration - See Research Administration
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- Associate Director 4 Associate Director for Data Management & Informatics, Program on Aging
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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 Professor of Biostatistics
Kimberly Kushner, '12 M.P.H., Acquis Consulting Group, Managing Director. Management consulting executive with a successful track record of designing and implementing complex strategies, building compelling value cases for underrepresented functions/investments, problem solving, and executing against high-impact initiatives.
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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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- Member of the Corrine Liu - Health Care Management Team
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- Director of Online and Certificate Education
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- Development Program Coordinator
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- Administrator of DEI Programs, Office of the Dean
- Administrator, DEI Programs
- Office Director
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- Project Manager Biostatistician and Data Manager
- Unit Co - Director
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- Member of the Corrine Liu - Health Care Management Team
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.
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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- Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
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- Senior Research Scientist ( Geriatrics )
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- Director, Young Scholars Program / Research Scientist in Biostatistics
- Director, Young Scholars Program in Biostatistics and Medical Research / Research Scientist in Biostatistics
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- Business Data Analyst Data Manager, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences ( YCAS )
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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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- Development Coordinator / Yale School of Public Health
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- Associate Professor Adjunct of Biostatistics
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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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- Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Program Head
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- Coordinator of Graduate Student Affairs
- Director of Admissions, MS / PhD Programs
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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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- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
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- Human Resources Specialist
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- Director of Academic Affairs
- Director, YSPH Academic Affairs
A rapid community assessment to understand needs regarding the covid-19 vaccine for children 11 years of age and younger in Milford, CT
Mira Johri, PhD, '98 M.P.H., is a professor at the University of Montréal's School of Public Health and a principal scientist at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre where she works in global health. Using quantitative evaluation methods, Johri aims to better integrate concerns for equity and fairness into health policy. She is particularly interested in maternal and child health in low- and middle-income countries. Since 2010, her work has focused on equitable access to childhood vaccines both at the global level and in India. At the global level, she collaborates actively on indicators for equitable vaccination coverage with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. In India, she is working to enhance equitable access to immunization through innovative approaches to community engagement.
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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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- 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
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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- Member of the Corrine Liu - Health Care Management Team
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- Resident, Internal Medicine, Griffin Hospital
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- Associate Research Scientist in Biostatistics
- Director, YCAS Methodology Internship Program Associate Research Scientist in Biostatistics
Pamela Sutton-Wallace, M.P.H. ‘97 is Chief Operating Officer, Yale-New Haven Health. She 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 NYP, 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.
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- Director Data Management and Informatics, Program on Aging
Pete Charpentier has been involved in data management for epidemiological and clinical studies for more than 35 years. He has been responsible for data management activities for the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale since its inception in 1992, and since 2002 he has been the Director of its Data Management and Informatics Core (DMIC). In addition to his research support leadership role, he participates in database application development projects, working primarily in SAS, MySQL, SQL Server, PHP, JavaScript and MSAccess/VBA. He currently serves as lead designer and developer for three patient-oriented clinical guidance web applications based on research conducted by Program on Aging Faculty Drs. Terri Fried and Liana Fraenkel. He is the development team leader for a 70-site multicenter study, Risk Stratification in Older Adults with Acute Myocardial Infarction (SILVER-AMI; Dr. Sarwat Chaudhry).
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- Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Senior Research Scientist of Biostatistics
Peter is professor of biostatistics at YSPH and director of the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS) and the Yale Data Coordinating Center. Dr. Peduzzi has nearly 40 years' experience in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials with a particular focus on pragmatic trials. He is the PI of several data coordinating centers funded by NIH and PCORI. Before coming to Yale he was the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center in West Haven, Connecticut, which conducts multi-center, multi-national clinical trials and epidemiologic studies. He still maintains an affiliation with this center. His primary research interests have focused on the efficient design and analysis of clinical trials, with a recent focus on clustered randomized trials.
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
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Health, Director of the Office of Public Health Practice, and Director of the Global Health Concentration 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 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 child development. His health disparities research involves assessing the impact of community health workers at improving behavioral and metabolic outcomes in vulnerable communities. He has published over 280 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 in Latin America & Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Europe . 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.
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- Senior Research Scientist in Biostatistics Director of Biostatistics in Psychiatry
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
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 Finance and Administration
- 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, D.P.M., M.Sc., '89 M.P.H. has been on staff at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) since 1991 and is nationally known for his non-surgical approach for the treatment of foot and ankle disorders. He serves in the capacity of Founder and Director of the Non-surgical Foot and Ankle Service and the Joe DiMaggio Sports Medicine Center at HSS. Dr. Positano was featured on the front page of the New York Times (Dec. 7, 2003) in an article concerning the dangers of cosmetic foot surgery. He has authored and edited numerous peer reviewed articles and has served as the editor of 8 medical textbooks ranging from foot and ankle orthopedics to sports medicine. He earned his BA from the NYU College of Arts and Science, his Master of Science from NYU School of Medicine, a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) from New York College of Podiatric Medicine and an MPH from the Yale School of Medicine (Public Health). He is Professor and Chairman, Department of Academic Orthopedic Surgery, New York College of Podiatric Medicine / Foot Center of New York and maintains professorial academic/clinical appointments at Cornell and Brown.
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 to make sure everyone can easily access information on YSPH's website and to help share the work of its members. 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 Chief Operating Officer for Bright Health, a consumer-focused health insurance and technology company. Prior to joining Bright Health, Sam was Chief Executive Officer of Magellan Healthcare where he focused on improving health and affordability through advanced analytics and clinical solutions. He led the strategy development, operations, product development and management, and profitability and growth of Magellan Healthcare, while positioning Magellan as a leader in the behavioral health, Medicaid and specialty healthcare markets. Srivastava also provided leadership over enterprise strategy, communication and government affairs.Previously, Srivastava worked at Cigna where he was president of the national and senior business segments. He had executive management responsibility for the strategic planning, business operations, growth and financial performance for these segments, which serve approximately 18 million individuals. He was instrumental in the acquisition of HealthSpring and the pharmacy benefit management partnership with CatamaranRx. Srivastava has held executive leadership positions in the commercial, senior, low-income and disabled population segments at UnitedHealth Group and HealthNet and served as a management consultant in the United States and internationally, primarily focusing on the areas of developing and improving integrated health care delivery systems for providers, insurers and governments. Srivastava graduated from Kent State University with a bachelor's degree in medical science and humanities and completed graduate work at Yale University in healthcare management. He also sits on a number of advisory boards, including Oliver Wyman, Yale School of Public Health and Yale Healthcare Conference. He is married to Dr. Lisbet Lundsberg, a member of the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, and resides in Wilton, Conn. with their four daughters.
Sam Silverlieb, M.B.A. '14, is passionate about helping people and teams be their best.As Head of Organizational Effectiveness for Coinbase, the most trusted hub to access crypto-powered financial services, Sam helps teams work together more seamlessly to increase economic freedom in the world.Prior to Coinbase, Sam was a Partner at McChrystal Group, a boutique consulting firm specializing in organizational effectiveness. There, he worked with executive teams across the healthcare ecosystem, including advising a Fortune 25 payer on establishing a new strategic planning process, helping a leading healthcare provider design a communications cadence reinforcing execution of their strategic plan, and coaching senior leaders in a world-class pharmaceutical company on effectively delegating to and empowering their teams.Before joining McChrystal Group, Sam helped found SineWave Ventures, a VC investing in enterprise tech startups with potential applications in and benefits for the public sector. His diverse professional experience includes roles in technology investment banking with Morgan Stanley, government with Israel's Ministry of Justice, and strategy consulting with Oliver Wyman, and has touched industries ranging from healthcare and technology to retail and transportation. Sam holds an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management and B.A. in Government from Harvard University.
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- Project Manager, CTRP - CT.GOV
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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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- 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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- Interim Chair
- Interim Department Chair and Professor of Biostatistics Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource
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- Director of Student Affairs and Registrar
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Immediate past President
- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Director, Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center ( West Haven, CT ), Department of Veterans Affairs
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.
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.
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- Executive Vice President, Communications and Business Development at Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Executive Vice President, Communications and Business Development at Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
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- Chairman
- Department Chair and Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health ( Social and Behavioral Sciences ) Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
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- Assistant Director of Admissions, MPH Programs
Dr. Njike's principal research interests involve methodological design, conduct, and analysis of clinical studies in chronic disease prevention.
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( General Pediatrics ) and of Biostatistics Biostatistician
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- Assistant Professor Adjunct
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.
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- Business Data Analyst Data Compliance Manager
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- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics ( Biostatistics )
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.